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ERSECUTION in Germany moves on relentlessly, but the news about it is becoming harder to get. Correspondents stationed in the country no longer dare to write the full truth, while few Germans who go abroad are in a position to gather together the news and inform foreign papers of the full facts. The following information has been carried personally to the London "Catholic Herald" by an active Catholic worker in Germany, sent abroad with a strong recommendation from Catholic authorities in the country. It contains the first publicly printed circulation figures of all the leading Nazi papers and magazines directly engaged in propagating anti-Christian teaching. Some papers circulate out of all proportion to similar papers in other countries, the largest being Herr Hitler's official news-organ with a circulation of 14,000,000. seven times as much as any (lady paper throughout all England.
A CHURCH ATTACKED Persecution Directed Against Nuns NE of the Nazi 'boasts is that in contrast with Bolshevik behaviour no Christian church has been attacked or closed. The following facts may mark the beginning of a new order. ' The church belonging to the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (founded by Mary Ward), in . ymphenburg. a district of Munich, has had difficulties with the Nazi police. Christian Weber. a Nazi official, against the consent of the Burgomaster of Munich, has Pulled down one of the wings leading from the church to the Convent. The Sisters now have to use the street to go from the house to the church. Herr 'Weber has also ordered the workmen, engaged in this task, to remove the Blessed Sacrament from the church, so that
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"It is impossible to be just to the Catholic Church. The moment men cease to pull against it, they feel a tug towards it"— Chesterton. the building may be pulled down. They refused. Now two nuns watch night and day beside the Blessed Sacrament, so that nothing may happen to it. Last year, for the first time. and contrary to custom, an order was given that All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day should not be treated as civil holidays. Some :If the small towns, among them. Ketnpten. in Algau. refused to obey. and shut their shops. but in the big towns everything was open.
Preaching a New Year sermon to a congregation of 8.000 people in the Cathedral on January 1, Cardinal Faulhaber, Archbishop of Munich, adjured Catholics to s tand steadfast. The prayers and intercession of Catholics. he said, were averting the divine punishment which otherwise was bound to fall on Germany because of the demoniacal blasphemies appearing daily in the German Press.
eight kindergartens, three students hostels, six orphanages, six homes for criminal children, t wo centres for apprentices, three domestic training colleges. By a new order, a member of the Nazi party. or of the S. N. ( Storm Division) may no longer belong to the Caritas Verband, nor may any member of his family. As membership of the S.A. 411.4411,.####141.41.4.0 4.4P 414.4•41.4.1
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THE POPE'S ADDRESS. Nazis Confiscate London Newspapers. "The Times." the "NewsChronicle." and other London newspapers which reported the outspoken references by the Pope on Christmas Eve to religious persecution in Germany and his denial of Nazi allegations that the Church pursued politics rather than religion, have been confiscated by the secret police. #4.4.4,04.#41"4 , 4"4 , 0.41.0 4.4.4 `4,4.04 ••••••••••#####414,11 ,
is practically compulsory. this decree is of the utmost importance. An order has just been given to nuns in 18 hospitals. 76 kin(lergartens. and 4 homes for the aged, forbidding them to work there any longer. The following are the circulation figures of directly anti-religious weekly and monthly papers belonging to the National Socialist party in Germany: "Nationalsozialistiche Monatsheffe ( Rosenberg's paper), 61,000. "Das Schwarze Korps (The S S. paper). 2.000,000. "Die Bewegung (National Socialist stu(lents' organ), 80,000. "Reichszeitung Deutscher Erzieher ( National Socialist schoolchildren's organ). 320,000. ' S.A. Mann (Workers' paper), 1.800,000. "Der Stunner" (Streicher's pa per) , 1.870,000. " Am Heiligen Quell Delascher Kraft" ( Ludendorf's paper), 344.000. "Illustrierte Boebachter." 228,300. "N-S. Frattenwarte." 650.000. "Der Durchshnitt," 108,000. "Deutscher Glaube" ("German Faith") . 13.200. "Volkischer Beobachter" t Hitler's paper). 14.000.000. "The Beacon Flames." The power of this press is as much a means of withdrawing from the public what is considered not good for them as it is in giving them news and views which are pure propaganda. (Continued on Back Cover.)