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28, 1934.
SIXTIETH YEA,R.
GERMANY'S REVERSION TO PAGANISN
In his "History of I listory and Philosophy" (Vol. 3, p. 276--Friedman) Heinrich Heine, the German poet (also unbeliever and scoffer), writes as follows:—
as unworthy of the strength of the Teutonic race. The doctrine of race is pushed "to the wildest conclusions.
A PROPHECY FULFILLED
manic sun-god. The old gods who inon the worship of purely national The absurdity of these new, so-callspired the Germanic tribes before the "Christianitv—and this is its fairest ideas—a Church in which belief in God ed religious ideas might cause only a ad vent of Christ ianity are to be called shall have no place, the claim--softened that brutal Germanic only God wor- smile were it not for the tragedy that from their thy of the German mind being such lies behind them—the danger to the lust of war, but couy not quite de- and Wodin long-forgotten graves. Thor are to be reinstated. Berg- as is to be found stroy it, and when o;o e the taming man's in man himself. Church, the danger to souls, the politalisman of the Crese is broken then on the "National Kirche"—a book also "Man himself is the only God." Chris- tical danger to Europe. Is not this tianity is to be discarded as weak and the first rumbling of the thunder the Teutonic lishing Index —is a plea for the estabthe ancient savagery of a Nation al Churc h, built e ffete, and the doctrine of compassion which Heine prophesied? up warriors, the senseless rage of the VikOne of the first tenets of this new religious is the ings, will break forth--this spirit war of which the Northern poets have necessity and righteousness of war— i sung. The talisman is already fail war and destruction—destruction of ing: a day will come when it will other cultures. Hitler stands aloof. break. Then the old gods of stone The old confessions, Protestant and will rise out of the earth, and, rubbing Catholic, are tolerated, but both are the dust of centuries out of their eyes, suffering. Protestants • and Catholics I will destroy with hammers of iron the alike do not know where to turn. i great Gothic cathedrals. Their words are censorecE When you Attacks hear the crashing and hanging of this are made on the clergy, numbers of welve T thousa nd Scots, men, women, by Father Michael V. 13rive uproar, beware, beware. Beware, you , Kirk- Catholic priests are in the concentraneighbouring children: do not get mix- and children, under 'he. leadership ot caldy, who is a dire:t descendant of tion camps. some of the .big Catholic ed up with this business that the three members of the Scottisn flier- Robert the Bruce, ano Father Themes papers have ceased to be Catholic exGermans are carrying on. Right Nev. Mgr cept in name, all the Catholic socieIt might archye.travellei to Dunf.ermline on the N. Taylor, Carfin. go badly with you. Take care not 10th. ult., to hoauur Scotland's Queen Canon Forbes, D.D.. Rector of St. ties and organisations have been disto burn your fingers nt this fire. Do Peter's College, Bearsden, was assist. solved by law, all the confessional not laugh at my warning—the warn- and Patroness, St. Margaret, to whose ant Priest. Among those present schools in the province of Baden have special care has been entr,i•_,tcd the ing of a dreamer who foresees were Archbishop Macdonald, 0.S.B., been replaced by National Socialist the re- Conversion of Scotla sults of the Kantian. Fichtian, nd. This, the. the Bishop of Tipasa, and the Lord schools. All churches have to be and natural philosophies. marked with the "Hackenkreuz" (a Abbot of Fort Augustus. Do not laugh fifth national pilgrimag•-:, was organiced by ever those as phantaeists heathen symbol). The third confeswho expect ciety. the Scotfsh Catholic Truth So The Rev. Profes: in the world of phenomenon It will be memorable as the Joseph sion, founded in Eisenach in 1933, is Danie l, Bearsden College, Chaplain of the gaining ground revolutions that took place the same greatest pilgrirnege since pre-Reformaeveryw and in the tion times, whea Scottish National Council of the Christian beliefs are being here, world of thought. Thoug Dun ferniine was the replaced by ht preced es action, as lightning preced foremost place of pilvimage in Scot- Young Men's Society, preached the set pre-historic heathen traditions and es thunder, land. German thunder may It hal also the special bless- mon, taking as his text the words, myths. Professor Bergman product rolling slowly be a German ing of the Hole Father, who granted "The Kingdom of God is like to a covered that the belief in the has dis, but it will come. When you Itaven which a woman took of the soul is an intellectual survival a Plenary Indulgence for the Pilheir malady it and hid in three measures of meal, and the result of spiritu lieve me it w:11 be suei it crash, be- grims. al degeneraas was never heard in the worldis until the whole was leavened." He tion. "The need of the world to-day nn The processi ,n, which was e ot: ut a said they were there to bring Scot- is the, need of a religio This prophecy is n for this life, of mile long; was witnes being partly ful sed by great land back to the glories of the Faith and this life only." The filled. In Germa organ of the P. ny what Heine- calls crowds as it math its way from Duno; St. Margaret, which could be done new confession is the the "Reichwart," and talisman of the Cross is et fermline ....Lower StatIon to East End first" by peayer, and then by action. alread its y editor b , Count Revenoy, permits reaking. . A t er things to be said about Catholics proclaimed in new religion is being Park, tilt use of which had been kindly grante which d manag by the The ement the Relics of Cross the of St. Margaret were which pass all the limits of press li1,have no place. will of e xposed for veneration in St. Mali- ertv. Club. Nearly Rosenberg, the author of the without Christ It is to be a religion Dunferrnane every Socfet withou y Sodal garet's and Memorial Church all the after- "Mythus des 20 Jahrh t belief in the ity in the under ar• necessity of redemption, or in the Church was repres noon. ented, and the Pilgrims also had the oppor- been made head of the entirets," has doctrine of sin. cultural ft. Knights of St. • jeolamtai earned a tunity Rosen berges of visitin g "My St. or Marga -th ganisa ret's us tion tomb, es 20 of Germany. his book is it warm tribute Iroin .Archbishop MacS t. Margaret's cave, and the nave ot obligatory in the dready onJahrhunderts"—which is al school the Abbey Church, over the site of ject matter for discus s, and is subsaecet,sfol passed intothe Index, but which has &maid, 0.S.13., fcr their sion in the uniten edition,:, and has been marshalling of Cie pilgrimage and the Holy Trinity Church, the read by Saint's first versities. million s explan founda c tion. away Christianity as The only hope for the Catho a myth lic the mere- teachChurch in Germany is an open "Ku'. Pontifical !Irgn Mass at th,.! Fald, ing of a fanatic sole mn Bened iction al' Too', unworthy ot of the BlesFed turkampf." s t ii, comm Aretiiepscopo, was sung S:wr German But with what result? ament was given in the Memorial Is 1Tein, leferred intelligence. by the ArchbiAop of Glasgow (Most Chu '5 prophecy about to be fulto as a corrup The Cross is tion of the GerNov. Donald Mackiotosh), assisted n rch by Archbishop Macdonald, filled. or will the thunder be ---"A. 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