AUSTRIAN BISHOP'S PLAIN WORDS " Can't Be Good Nazi and Good Catholic "

The Encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge on the situation of Catholics in Germany, has been read from the pulpits of the Diocese of Linz in Austria.
The Bishop of Linz (Mgr. Gfoellner), who has always taken a very strong antiNazi and anti-Socialist stand in the district of Austria where there has been most trouble with both views, said before the reading of 'the document: " The fate of the Church in Germany cannot be a matter of indifference to us; it touches us very nearly."
After indicating the reasons the Bishop added that the dangers of German Catholics were also the dangers of Austrian Catholics: " What I wrote in my pastoral of January 21, 1933. It is impossible to be at once a good Catholic and a good National-Socialist,' is confirmed today."
Mgr. Gfoellner asked all Catholic parents to keep their children away from any organisation which sympathised with the ideology condemned by the Pope.