GERMAN 4 TRAITOR PRIESTS

CLERICAL SUPPORT FOR NAZI SCHOOLS Bishops' Condemnation
Front Our German Correspondent The Catholic popuhaion of the Saar and the Palatinate, and the listeners of the S'aarbriicken radio station, had almost every night last week the paintot experience of hearing priests criticising their bishops and the Holy See, and to hear them thanking the Nazis for the suppression of all Catholic schools.
One of them, a professor of 'religion in a Bavarian teachers' training school, had published, in the Hitlerite press, a declaration urging Catholic parents to vote for the disappearance of Catholic schools and the general. introduction of Nazi "common' schools. Thereupon the Bishop of Treves issued a statement to be read from all pulpits, calling Fr. Kobler's " Open Letter " a perfidious attack against the Church" and informing the public that this priest has been suspended from his ecclesiastical functions. That was a good reason for the Nazis to put the microphone at the disposal of Fr. Koblcr in order that he might attack the Bishop in the name of the "real " Catholic principles. He even accused some of his fellow priests of being " traitors to their country " and " allies of Bolshevism."
Re-united Germany The opening of the Nazi common schools, which replace the suppressed Catholic and Protestant confessional schools, was solemnly celebrated in Neustadt. All over the Palatinate and the Saar Territory school-children were gathered around the loud-speakers in order to listen to two speeches made by a Protestant pastor and a Catholic priest, neither of whom was ashamed to congratulate the NationalSocialist party for sweeping away all Catholic and Protestant schools. ' Fr. Heinen, the Catholic priest, praised Adolf .Hitler for having re-united what Luther's Reformation had separated three hundred years ago, and for•having created one single German school for all German children.
Christianity Taught The Cologne Nazi paper, Westdeutscher Beobachter, uses the same method by publishing an article signed by " the Catholic theologist Dr. P—e " under the title " A Saint and a Pope for the common school." The author, who does not dare to publish his full name, alleges that St. Thomas Aquinas and Pope Leo XIII were against " the attitude which the Church takes in our days in school questions." Those who want to see what the ultimate aims of the Nazi school reforms are may look at the new Adolf Hitler schools. which have just been set up as secondary schools for the ruling class of the Brown regime. These Adolf Hitler-Schulen have given up all Christian religious teaching and have replaced the doctrine lessons by what may be called lessons of dechristianisation. According to the Viilkischer Beobachter: God's Earthly Shape " Obviously no confessional religious teaching, in the sense of one of the numerous Churches and ecclesiastical sects, can be given in the Adolf Hitler schools; so the religious teaching will deal with the reli-. gious ideas of mankind in general . "
The service under the banner of the Hitler Youth is accomplished on Germany's command. He who acts on Germany's command also fulfils a cornmand of that great and eternal Being which is above our nation. When the Reich Youth Leader ' consecrated new banners of the Hitler Youth in Giistrow, he made it clear that he considered those banners not only as the symbol of the National-Socialist movement. but also 4s the earthly shape of the eternal God.
Vatican To Answer German Note
It is understood that the Vatican will reply to the note of complaint presented to it by the German Government in regard to the Encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge. The note was not a defence of Nazism, but a criticism of the Vatican's action at a time when negotiations on the relations between the Vatican and Germany were still in being. It would seem that the Vatican, desirous of finding a rnodus vivendi, however slight the chance of it may appear, wishes to clear up any possible misunderstanding. On April 15 Cardinal Pacelli received Herr von Bergen, the Reich Ambassador at the Holy See. This was the first diplomatic meeting since the publication of the Encyclical.