CHURCH TO RISE NEAR NAZI JAIL

BERL1N KATII 0 LI K ENT AG :
IN all the dioceses of Germany a collection will be made today (Friday), the Feast of the Assumption, for the building of a church to Our Lady Queen of the Martyrs at Plutzensee, the Berlin jail where many Catholics were killed under the Nazis, as a long memorial of the 78th Katholikentag ((erman Catholic congress) which opened in Berlin on Wednesday.
This was stated last week by Bishop Dopfner of Berlin in an interview with Petrusblatt, the Berlin diocesan weekly.
Describing the church as ' a
memorial church for , the martyrs of the time of Hitler ", Bishop Dopfner said: " It will remind visitors to Berlin from all parts of Germany and from the whole world that here under the Nazi dictatorship trade union leaders and members of the nobility, politicians and labour leaders, priests and laymen from among the Catholic population had to lay down their lives for freedom.
WARNING
" Regina Martyrum will be a permanen: warning against dictatorship and at the same time a lasting symbol of the theme of the Katholikentag: Our concern is man, our salvation is the Lord The bishop then pointed out that not only those taking part in the Katholikentag would have a share in the building of this church but all the Catholics of Germany through the collection mentioned above.
Meanwhile, in Dresden, the Communist newspaper Sachsische Zeitung launched an attack on the Church last Friday. reports the Viennese daily Die Presse. "The role that the Church has assumed in the 20th century is the rescue of imperialism," said the party organ, although the " ranks of the clerical reaction" would not delay the victorious advance of the doctrines of Marx and I.enin.
The paper made an especial attack on the Jesuits, and described the Oriental Institute run by the Society in Rome as one of the "most dangerous spy-schools."
No information has yet reached
the competent ecclesiastical authorities about the charges on which the arrests were made of Fr. Hugo Hermes, the parish priest of Bad Kosen, the four Jesuits, Frs. Robert Frater, Wilhelm Rueter, Joseph Menzel, and Joseph Widnes. and the I I laymen arrested at Rathcnow, stated last Sunday's issue of Petrusblatt. Fr. Hermes was arrested during the night of June 23-24, the Rathenow laymen some time in the middle of July, and the four Jesuits on July 22 and 23.