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AUSTRIAN HIE.RARCHY Over 10,000 Schools Closed in 12 Months

OFFICIAL PROTEST WOULD NEED PAPAL SANCTION
From Our German Correspondent FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, THE AUSTRIAN ARCHBISHOPS AND BISHOPS WILL BE PRESENT AT THE GERMAN EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE, WHICH IS TO BE HELD IN FULDA IN THE THIRD WEEK OF AUGUST UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF EIGHTY-YEAR-OLD CARDINAL BERTRAM, ARCHBISHOP OF BRESLAU.
From the Sudetenland, Mgr. Weber, Bishop of Leitmeritz, will be present.
The five Czech Bishops will not attend, but it is expected that Cardinal Kaspar, Archbishop of Prague, will send an " observer" to Fulda so that the Hierarchy of the " protectorate " of Bohemia and Moravia may be quickly and reliably informed about matters which are of special interest to them.
The news that an episcopal committee is to go to Rome before the Conference begins has been denied. Such a spectacular form of contact with the Holy See is unnecessary. There are other channels, e.g., the Nuncio in Berlin, through which the German and Austrian Bishops can remain in touch with the Holy Father, who is undoubtedly well informed about what is going to be discussed at Fulda.
A certain number of German Bishops have recently made their ad limina visits in Rome, and it is not. impossible that one of them was given some. special message. About such details the public is of course unlikely to get any authentic news.
Education Probably the whole ecclesiastical situation in Greater Germany will be discussed in Fulda, but certainly the problem of education will be given special attention.
Over ten thousand schools have been closed down since the hierarchy met last year in Conference, and the religious education of youth is becoming more and more precarious.
Probably some solemn appeal to Catholic parents will be drafted in the form of a common pastoral letter.
financial difficulties of the Church It is less certain whether the will be the object of more than a general report, as conditions are very different in the various parts of Greater Germany, and little could be done by common action.
But at least the emergency action which the German dioceses have organised for the financial requirements of the Church in the Sudetenland may be given some consideration.
The difficult plight of Catholic charitable activities may also be referred to.
Closer Relations Anything that can be done for establishing closer relations between the German. and the Austrian hierarchies will be carefully considered.
Last year's Fulda episcopal conference drafted a very stronglyworded pastoral letter which was later banned by the secret police. Printers' shops where it was printed, and automobiles which served for its distribution, were confiscated by the Nazi authorities.
Whether a similar document is to be issued this time nobody can tell. If one is drafted it will certainly not be published before the Holy Father has seen and approved it.
And it is quite possible that the publication will be postponed until the discreet peace efforts of the Vatican have led to some. result, whether successful or not.




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