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<p> <ent type='ORG'>FASCIST ROMANISM DEFIES</ent> CIVILIZATION</p>
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<p> HOW THE <ent type='PERSON'>POPE</ent> KEEPS TO THE <ent type='ORG'>PLOT</ent>
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<p> HOW THE POPE KEEPS TO THE <ent type='ORG'>PLOT</ent>
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WHILE THE WORLD CURSES IT</p>
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<p> by Joseph McCabe</p>
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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ I Guilty or Not Guilty .............. 1</p>
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<p> Chapter I</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>GUILTY</ent> OR NOT <ent type='PERSON'>GUILTY</ent>?</p>
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<p> GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY?</p>
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<p> We are living in the second most catastrophic period that the
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race has suffered in the last 3000 years. It was then, three
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@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ millennia ago, slowly emerging from the ruin which the pioneers of
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civilization, and with the successive rise of the Phoenicians, the
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<ent type='NORP'>Persians</ent>, the <ent type='NORP'>Greeks</ent>, and the <ent type='NORP'>Romans</ent> it was marching to the peak of
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the ancient world. There were, too, very notable resurrections of
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civilization in <ent type='GPE'>India</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>. By the end of the 5th Century they
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civilization in India and <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>. By the end of the 5th Century they
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were all ruined and the race from rim to rim of the known world was
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almost back in barbarism. We cannot compare our age with that awful
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beginning of the Dark Age, but since then not one of the tragedies
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mind's eye, this is the most dreadful age into which the race has
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passed since the ruin of the <ent type='NORP'>Greek</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> civilization. How many
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people are at war -- and a war of giants -- today? About
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850000000 on any count; and if you include <ent type='GPE'>India</ent>, as part of the
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<ent type='GPE'><ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Empire</ent></ent>, and <ent type='ORG'>the Spanish <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Republic</ent>s</ent> which have at
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850000000 on any count; and if you include India, as part of the
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<ent type='GPE'><ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Empire</ent></ent>, and <ent type='ORG'><ent type='ORG'>the Spanish</ent> <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Republic</ent>s</ent> which have at
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least declared war, and the countries that are held back from war
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only by the lash and gibbet of the conqueror, and the countless
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which give all the help they can to the aggressive nations but call
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<p> What happened fifteen centuries ago was that a terrible
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drought had fallen upon western <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, and in search of new pastures
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mighty hoards of those diabolical horsemen the <ent type='ORG'>Huns</ent> invaded <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>
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mighty hoards of those diabolical horsemen the Huns invaded Europe
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and forced the half civilized or wholly uncivilized <ent type='NORP'>Goths</ent>, <ent type='ORG'>Vandals</ent>,
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<ent type='ORG'>Franks</ent>, etc. southward upon the <ent type='GPE'><ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Empire</ent></ent>. Our modern <ent type='ORG'>Huns</ent> and
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<ent type='ORG'>Franks</ent>, etc. southward upon the <ent type='GPE'><ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Empire</ent></ent>. Our modern Huns and
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their allies were trained in all the ideals, all the culture, of
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the highest civilization. They deliberately stooped to savagery,
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and they did this out of sheer greed. There have been glorified
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@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ censure the vile conduct of <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Eng
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of <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>. What matters from the moral angle is that each country
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that has committed outrages has had the full support of the
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> hierarchy and clergy of that country, and that the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> or
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<ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> has been throughout in, friendly alliance with the
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the Vatican has been throughout in, friendly alliance with the
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arch-criminals.</p>
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<p> So let us summarize the evidence. The first point to bear in
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danger, they very culpably persuaded themselves to ignore the
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broader designs of those quaint St. Georges.</p>
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<p> In this very important respect the cooperation of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>
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<p> In this very important respect the cooperation of the Vatican
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with the aims of the <ent type='ORG'>Axis</ent>, by filling the public mind with lies
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about <ent type='NORP'>Communists</ent> and recommending Fascism as a state-form, is
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notorious; and the reason is just as notorious. <ent type='NORP'>Communism</ent>, starting
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@ -172,14 +172,14 @@ of <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> than the Refor
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estimated the loss of the <ent type='ORG'><ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent></ent>, mainly to <ent type='ORG'>Communism and</ent>
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Socialism, at something more than 70000000 in 15 years and have
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based that estimate on published statistics. So, after a few years
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of diplomatic coquetry with the <ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent> authorities, <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>
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of diplomatic coquetry with the <ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent> authorities, the Vatican
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began to libel and assail <ent type='NORP'>Communism</ent>. In the Papal Encyclical of
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1931 <ent type='PERSON'>Quadragesimo Anno</ent>, it was described as a vile, degrading, and
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criminal influence, and <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> were forbidden even to adhere to
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Socialism. The note became steadily more strident until it rose
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above that of the bitterest anti-<ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent> political writer. The
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foulest and trashiest libels of <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>n and Spanish <ent type='NORP'>Communists</ent> were
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endorsed, and from 1934 onward <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>, its voice echoing
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endorsed, and from 1934 onward the Vatican, its voice echoing
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throughout the whole <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, called for the extinction, clearly by
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war, of <ent type='NORP'>Communism</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Mexico</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>.</p>
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<p> I am not a <ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent> and will say only that that system of
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ideas has as much right to present its case to the public and seek
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converts as any other creed or system. But <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> knew what it
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converts as any other creed or system. But the Vatican knew what it
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was doing. Under cover of a zeal against <ent type='ORG'>Communism and</ent> Socialism
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<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> and all their lesser satellites in other
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countries were diverting the eyes of the world from their larger
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criminal aims and the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> enlisted his whole <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> in that
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strategy. The most effective means of checking those aims of
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<ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> would have been a practical alliance of
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<ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, and the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> and his local
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<ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States, <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, and the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> and his local
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black legions did everything in their power to turn the people
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against the idea.</p>
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<p> Then, whether we consider step by step the march of infamy to
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its present culminating point or examine the three bandit-powers
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and their relations with <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>, we find the closest
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and their relations with the Vatican, we find the closest
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cooperation of the <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent>. The first step was the
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annexation of <ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent>. For a moment it seemed to warn the
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civilized world that its comfortable and respectable standards of
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life were challenged by a new force, and there was a wide demand
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for prompt and decisive action. But the guilt of Sir <ent type='PERSON'>John Simon</ent> in
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frustrating punishment in the sacred name of trade is not greater
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than that of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>, which ordered its representatives in
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than that of the Vatican, which ordered its representatives in
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<ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> to enter into friendly relations with the
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bandits. These relations deepened until, just when <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> again
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shocked, and ought to have warned, the world by seizing more of
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of <ent type='ORG'>Abyssinia</ent>." The spread of barbarism -- I will show presently how
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that is not too strong an expression -- over <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> was the next
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step in the conquest of civilization by installments. Here not only
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the close cooperation of the Spanish <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> but the blessings of
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the enterprise by <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> and the support of <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> all over
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the close cooperation of <ent type='ORG'>the Spanish</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> but the blessings of
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the enterprise by the Vatican and the support of <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> all over
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the world are commonplaces of contemporary history. It was the same
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in the extension to <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>. The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Dollfuss, after a visit
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to <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>, treacherously destroyed "the Socialist watch-dog." The
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<p> If, on the other hand, we prefer to study the direct relations
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of <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> with the aggressor-powers we shall find ourselves
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impelled to use even stronger language. I have throughout spoken of
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them as the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s allies, and the spectacle which the world
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them as the Pope's allies, and the spectacle which the world
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presents today gives point to the phrase. We boast daily that
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almost the entire free civilized world is with us in our war upon
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<ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>. No one will call <ent type='GPE'>Sweden</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Switzerland</ent>,
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priest-ridden now refuse to speak out. But the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> is not with us.
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He is bound by treaty (Concordat) to the three powers which the
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free world calls the enemies of the human race. You may object that
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<ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, Eire, and <ent type='GPE'>Rumania</ent> are
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<ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent>, Hungary, <ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, Eire, and <ent type='GPE'>Rumania</ent> are
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not with us. No; they are with the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>. Significant, isn't it?</p>
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<p> I have shown in detail in what sense the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> is an ally of
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<ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>. The triumph of crime in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, the consolidation
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of the power of <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>, was not complete until he signed a
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treaty with <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> and granted <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> a vast sum of money
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treaty with the Vatican and granted <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> a vast sum of money
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(about $90000000) and nearly all the privileges it wanted. Until
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the present <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> became Secretary of <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> there was still very
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the present <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> became Secretary of State there was still very
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acrid quarrelling. There have been quarrels since -- always about
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<ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent>'s rights -- but <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> has seen the amazing sight of
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<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> kneeling for the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s blessing and the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> crossing
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<ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> (after <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>'s treachery in regard to <ent type='GPE'>Yugo</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Slavia</ent>) to exchange
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<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> kneeling for the Pope's blessing and the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> crossing
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<ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> (after Italy's treachery in regard to <ent type='GPE'>Yugo</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Slavia</ent>) to exchange
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greetings with the king and queen. What is more, whether you can in
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any country in the world relieve the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> of blame for what his
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giving the ample evidence of this I mention with reserve the charge
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of <ent type='PERSON'>Fritz Thyssen</ent>, the industrialist who financed the <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent>, and a
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<ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>, that -- in the words of the title for an article he
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wrote in the Arbeiterzeitung -- "<ent type='PERSON'>Pius XII</ent>, when <ent type='PERSON'>Nuncio</ent>, carried
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wrote in the Arbeiterzeitung -- "Pius XII, when <ent type='PERSON'>Nuncio</ent>, carried
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<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> to power." My attention has since been called to the fact
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that <ent type='ORG'>Cavalcade</ent> (September 28, 1940) gave the gist of the article
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and there is no reason to doubt it. It seems that the <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent> deluded
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what did <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> ever care about the foulness of the means by
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which its enemies were exterminated? -- but to set up a "<ent type='NORP'>Christian</ent>
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Corporative <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>" on the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> model, the <ent type='ORG'><ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent></ent> ruling
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the west and the <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> the east. I gave the evidence of
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Corporative State" on the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> model, the <ent type='ORG'><ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent></ent> ruling
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the west and the Protestant <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> the east. I gave the evidence of
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<ent type='PERSON'>Von Papen</ent>, another <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>, and other unimpeachable witnesses that
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in fact <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> ordered <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> to drop their
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in fact the Vatican ordered <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> to drop their
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opposition to the <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent>, deserting their <ent type='NORP'>Jewish</ent> and Socialist
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allies, and that this encouraged the <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent>, who were profoundly
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<p> But I need not survey the record of monstrosity. The different
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attitude of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> to <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>, as it peacefully and humanely
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attitude of the Vatican to <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>, as it peacefully and humanely
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built up a great civilization, and <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>, as it waded through
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blood and loot and treachery to the attainment of its supreme
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greed, damns it for all time. The <ent type='NORP'>Russians</ent> were vile, savage,
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the religious angle), idolized the state (instead of <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent>),
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and did not carry out their agreement with <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>.</p>
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<p> The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> apologist whines that <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> had to consult
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<p> The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> apologist whines that the Vatican had to consult
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the "spiritual interests" of the followers in <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>. I can hardly
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imagine a more pitiful confession that, contrary to what its
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<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> apologists say, it cares nothing about human interests.
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any other writer in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> or <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>. Well, I have not yet seen
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a line in which any <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> cardinal, archbishop, or bishop had
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rebuked <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>'s crimes against man and against civilization. The
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rebuked Germany's crimes against man and against civilization. The
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epithets criminal, beastly, barbarous, and infamous were reserved
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<ent type='ORG'>Fulda</ent> (the <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> of <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent>) and drew up resolutions which
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<ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> ordered them to keep secret. The <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> press reported
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the Vatican ordered them to keep secret. The <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> press reported
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that it got copies of them, and they were fulsome congratulations
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to <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> on his great triumph in the west, to be published when it
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was completed by the fall of <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>. The <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> press
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reapproachment between <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> and the <ent type='PERSON'>Reich</ent>," and it pointed
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out that the chief speaker, who closed the conference, <ent type='PERSON'>Msgr</ent>.
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out that the chief speaker, who closed the conference, Msgr.
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<ent type='PERSON'>Garkowsky</ent> was the bishop appointed by <ent type='PERSON'>Goering</ent> to represent
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> on the <ent type='ORG'>State</ent> Council.</p>
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<ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> on the State Council.</p>
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<p> But <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> refused to be bludgeoned into surrender, and the
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<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> forbade publication of these "very important decisions." In
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that their bishops were to meet at <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent> "for exceptional
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purposes," and this announcement was coupled with a warning that
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unscrupulous rulers had a way of misusing ecclesiastical
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utterances. On March 30 <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> radio reported, with approval, </p>
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utterances. On March 30 the Vatican radio reported, with approval, </p>
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<p> Bank of Wisdom
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Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
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tendencies" had found expression in <ent type='GPE'>Alsace</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>, and Sudeten
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<ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> On July 8 <ent type='ORG'>the <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Times</ent></ent> referred to a letter which the
|
||||
<p> On July 8 <ent type='ORG'>the London</ent> Times referred to a letter which the
|
||||
bishops of <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> had ordered to be read in all churches. As it
|
||||
condemned <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> paganism <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> claimed that here was the
|
||||
whole <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> hierarchy united in censuring <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>. We are quite
|
||||
aware that <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> more than once scolded the <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent> for
|
||||
infringing its own rights as on other purely religious grounds, but
|
||||
the <ent type='ORG'>Times</ent> pointed out that this letter by no means relieved the
|
||||
the Times pointed out that this letter by no means relieved the
|
||||
guilt of <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent>. It referred to the attack on <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> and said
|
||||
that it was "a struggle of world ideologies, a battle against
|
||||
inequality, and a fight against the disintegration of <ent type='NORP'>Christianity</ent>,
|
||||
|
|
@ -470,10 +470,10 @@ sign it, and many priests refused to read it from their pulpits.</p>
|
|||
|
||||
<p> As to the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> himself, he left it to those useful
|
||||
unauthorized organ's to explain his ambiguous attitude. <ent type='ORG'>The Vatican</ent>
|
||||
correspondent of <ent type='ORG'>the International News Service</ent> said that he
|
||||
correspondent of <ent type='ORG'>the International</ent> News Service said that he
|
||||
protested vehemently against the treatment of <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>
|
||||
and added this rich observation, which was certainly compiled in
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>:</p>
|
||||
the Vatican:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "Only the deepest desire to avoid even involuntarily creating
|
||||
the impression that <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> favors the enemies of <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> or
|
||||
|
|
@ -487,13 +487,13 @@ for restraint; when <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>, after eight years of bestiali
|
|||
persecutes <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> one has to remember that a <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> is neutral
|
||||
and not free to use strong language.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> The last cutting I have is from the <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> News-Chronicle
|
||||
<p> The last cutting I have is from <ent type='ORG'>the London</ent> News-Chronicle
|
||||
(October 5, 1941). It says that <ent type='ORG'>Ribbentrop</ent> has seen the Papal
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Nuncio</ent> at <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent> and offered "a structural change in the attitude
|
||||
of the Third <ent type='PERSON'>Reich</ent> to the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>" if the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> will rouse
|
||||
all <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> against "the Anti-Christ <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>," and that the <ent type='PERSON'>Nuncio</ent>
|
||||
loftily refused even to send the offer to <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>. Perhaps: <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> was
|
||||
proving to be made of sterner stuff than the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s dear children
|
||||
proving to be made of sterner stuff than the Pope's dear children
|
||||
in <ent type='GPE'>Belgium</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>. But do not too hastily draw upon your fund
|
||||
of old saws and quote "When the devil was sick" or "Rats desert a
|
||||
sinking ship." <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> has still a few Papal cards like <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and
|
||||
|
|
@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ sinking ship." <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> has still a few Papal cards like
|
|||
things. First the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> and his hierarchy have supported the <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent>
|
||||
through nine years of success and infamy; second, there is a
|
||||
remarkable correlation between the variations in the ardor of
|
||||
support and the ebb and flow of <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s fortunes.</p>
|
||||
support and the ebb and flow of Hitler's fortunes.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Bank of Wisdom
|
||||
Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
||||
|
|
@ -511,12 +511,12 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
|||
|
||||
<p> Chapter II</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> WILL <ent type='NORP'>CATHOLICS</ent> DISOWN THE <ent type='PERSON'>POPE</ent>?</p>
|
||||
<p> WILL <ent type='NORP'>CATHOLICS</ent> DISOWN THE POPE?</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> I am not one of those who conceive the situation to be that we
|
||||
are fighting <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> or even the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent>
|
||||
parties. It remains to be seen how far this is true in the case of
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> but in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> we are fighting a prodigious aggregation or
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> but in Europe we are fighting a prodigious aggregation or
|
||||
organization of brain-power. It works behind the <ent type='NORP'>Nazi</ent> front. It
|
||||
includes the very able military leaders that <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> can always
|
||||
produce but is much more than this. War-time jibes at the
|
||||
|
|
@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ and conviction. But he can at any time discover, as <ent type='PERSON'>Leo XIII<
|
|||
after quarter of a century of attacks on democracy, that <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent>
|
||||
has nothing to do with whether a state chooses to be <ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent> or
|
||||
not. It is true that in the first encyclical he compiled for the
|
||||
late <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> he insisted that the Corporative <ent type='ORG'>State</ent>, the very essence
|
||||
late <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> he insisted that the Corporative State, the very essence
|
||||
of which is servility to the state and <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> authorities, is the
|
||||
ideal, but he never mentioned democracy.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ and teaching than in any other country, the deposition or rebuke of
|
|||
a <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> would shake <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism and invite a dangerously critical
|
||||
interest. The most that is conceivable along that line is that
|
||||
apologists will affect an attitude of naive astonishment and say
|
||||
that even non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> ought to know that a <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s blunders do not
|
||||
that even non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> ought to know that a Pope's blunders do not
|
||||
compromise the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> or discredit a single line of its
|
||||
teaching. There have actually been priests who claimed it as a
|
||||
proof of the divinity of <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> that it survived so many
|
||||
|
|
@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ the board of directors, so to say. As such boards do, they find it
|
|||
expedient to admit a few outsiders but take care they are always in
|
||||
a minority and settle most affairs between themselves apart from
|
||||
the formal board-meetings. Nothing irritates <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> so much as a <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> practice of calling their <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> so much as a Protestant practice of calling their <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
|
||||
"the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> Mission." But no other description of it is more apt.
|
||||
The <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> clique run <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> just as
|
||||
the heads of an international trading enterprise in <ent type='GPE'>New York</ent>
|
||||
|
|
@ -702,7 +702,7 @@ words go many of the charges against <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> or to main
|
|||
an air of bland assurance, that, for instance, it never interferes
|
||||
in polities. If you appeal to its twenty years opposition to
|
||||
republicanism in <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, that was <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Leo XIII</ent> not <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent>,
|
||||
they say. It was <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>, not <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent>, that intrigued with
|
||||
they say. It was the Vatican, not <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent>, that intrigued with
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>British</ent> statesmen to settle their troubles in <ent type='GPE'>Ireland</ent> (<ent type='PERSON'>Seldes</ent>, The
|
||||
Vatican, p. 272). On the other hand, when an <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>n cardinal
|
||||
writes "Hell <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>" or an <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> bishop exults in the brigandage
|
||||
|
|
@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ That is easily-answered. Do the apologists mean that the majority
|
|||
of bishops and archbishops of their <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> would have had the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>
|
||||
act otherwise? Apply that test and the sophistry disappears. There
|
||||
is only one point on which they expressed any criticism or reserve
|
||||
about the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s conduct; his refusal to pass judgment on the rape
|
||||
about the Pope's conduct; his refusal to pass judgment on the rape
|
||||
of <ent type='ORG'>Abyssinia</ent>. But they soon fell into line and supported his
|
||||
subsequent actions. The whole of the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> press, clergy, and
|
||||
hierarchies applauded the treaties with <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>. We
|
||||
|
|
@ -730,12 +730,12 @@ instance, fell into silence about the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> treaties whe
|
|||
declared war on that country. They continued to support the
|
||||
alliance with the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent>s until they were at war with
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>. And the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> cardinals and prelates maintained their
|
||||
support generally until the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s proud <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese ally dealt
|
||||
support generally until the Pope's proud <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese ally dealt
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> so foul a blow. The hierarchies have a very poor case
|
||||
against the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, and the two elements together supremely represent
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> A more familiar trick, which has even been used in the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s
|
||||
<p> A more familiar trick, which has even been used in the Pope's
|
||||
paper the <ent type='PERSON'><ent type='PERSON'>Osservatore</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>o</ent>, is to plead that aberrations on the
|
||||
part of the hierarchy of a particular country do not compromise the
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>. Next we have, in the first place, the right to presume that
|
||||
|
|
@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ a course of conduct pursued by the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> priests of an
|
|||
during several years has the full approval of the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent>. If the
|
||||
conduct is likely to arouse disgust or criticism in other countries
|
||||
we do not look for the publication of Papal letters or other
|
||||
messages supporting it, unless, as in the case of the Spanish
|
||||
messages supporting it, unless, as in the case of <ent type='ORG'>the Spanish</ent>
|
||||
rebellion, only a minority of radical folk condemn the policy. But
|
||||
we need no evidence. <ent type='ORG'>The Vatican</ent> has its international bureau
|
||||
(congregations) in <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> and its <ent type='PERSON'>Nuncio</ent>s (ambassadors) in every
|
||||
|
|
@ -766,14 +766,14 @@ It is his boast that there is a unique moral authority in his
|
|||
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>es, and he means that it has rigorously controlled agencies
|
||||
in every land and surveys the world with a moral sense that cannot
|
||||
be adulterated by national interests. The <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>, he
|
||||
says, is bound to have a <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> outlook; the <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> Episcopal
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> an <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> outlook; the Lutheran
|
||||
says, is bound to have a <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> outlook; the Protestant Episcopal
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States an <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> outlook; the Lutheran
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> a <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> outlook. But the head or central station of the
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'><ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent></ent> sees no national boundaries and is serenely
|
||||
independent of national prejudices in its judgments. And since it
|
||||
is the local clergy in each country who interpret <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
||||
doctrine, on both faith and morals, to the people, one of the chief
|
||||
functions of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> is to see that they apply it in all its
|
||||
functions of the Vatican is to see that they apply it in all its
|
||||
purity. The miserable subterfuge that the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> is merely
|
||||
overlooking a little patriotic weakness in the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> or the
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> hierarchy when it blesses crime on a monstrous scale and
|
||||
|
|
@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ individuals is an abandonment of all claim to moral authority in
|
|||
|
||||
<p> We may go further and say that corruption in the national
|
||||
hierarchies is even more discreditable to <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> than
|
||||
corruption at <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>. I need not linger in explaining that. It
|
||||
corruption at the Vatican. I need not linger in explaining that. It
|
||||
is from their priests, who are rigorously controlled by the
|
||||
bishops, that <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> have to expect sound moral judgment on
|
||||
collective as well as individual problems. Not one <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> in
|
||||
|
|
@ -805,17 +805,17 @@ catholicity (universality), than that of any other creed. On the
|
|||
greatest social-moral issues, the really vital issues, of our time
|
||||
-- the amount of freedom and tolerance to grant, the suppression of
|
||||
greed and violence, the desirability of peace -- you get practical
|
||||
unanimity in the <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> Episcopal <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> or <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> of
|
||||
unanimity in the Protestant Episcopal <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> or <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> of
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>England</ent>, the <ent type='ORG'>Baptist</ent> or the Methodist <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, whether its members
|
||||
live in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>, <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, or <ent type='LOC'>Africa</ent>. But in <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>
|
||||
live in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, Europe, <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, or <ent type='LOC'>Africa</ent>. But in <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>
|
||||
you have a monstrous moral discord. The <ent type='NORP'>German</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>, or
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>ese <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> is taught by his priests to support
|
||||
enthusiastically just what the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> or <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
||||
denounce's as diabolical. The ideal given by his priests to the
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Spaniard</ent> or the <ent type='NORP'>Brazilian</ent>, even the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> or the <ent type='GPE'>Austria</ent>n, today
|
||||
would, if those countries were <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent>, draw the bitterest
|
||||
would, if those countries were Protestant, draw the bitterest
|
||||
invective or the most self-satisfied irony from the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
||||
apologist. Which, he would ask, is your <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> morality, and </p>
|
||||
apologist. Which, he would ask, is your Protestant morality, and </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Bank of Wisdom
|
||||
Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
||||
|
|
@ -826,7 +826,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
|||
<p>what judgment does it pass on five years of revolting outrage from
|
||||
the bombing of Guernica or the rape of <ent type='ORG'>Abyssinia</ent> to the treachery
|
||||
of <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>? But all these monstrously conflicting voices on the
|
||||
gravest issues are <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> not <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> or atheistic. In other
|
||||
gravest issues are <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> not Protestant or atheistic. In other
|
||||
words that world-wide expansion in which the apologist takes such
|
||||
pride is one of the greatest moral weaknesses of his <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>, and
|
||||
the claim that it has a supreme, cosmopolitan oracle who keep the
|
||||
|
|
@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ representative organ's saying one thing in <ent type='GPE'>Vichy</ent> and anoth
|
|||
<ent type='GPE'>London</ent>, one thing in <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> and another in <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>, or
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Tokyo</ent>. In the same land, within the limits of the same patriotic
|
||||
influences, the voice wavers and changes like that of the Vicar of
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Bray</ent>; and this applies forcibly to <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> itself. But this
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Bray</ent>; and this applies forcibly to the Vatican itself. But this
|
||||
will be seen more clearly after the next two chapters have been
|
||||
read. Here let me finish with this question of which element of the
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> really represents it and whether that element can be
|
||||
|
|
@ -850,8 +850,8 @@ International is pursued without scruple. To the lower clergy as
|
|||
the <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent> we must not only add the monks, nuns, and
|
||||
teaching brothers but every paid worker; every <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> teacher,
|
||||
journalist, organizer, secretary, and lay propagandist. The whole
|
||||
of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Action, from the <ent type='ORG'>Knights</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Columbus</ent>, to the <ent type='NORP'>Falangists</ent>
|
||||
of <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent>'s black army, should be counted in it. <ent type='PERSON'>Petain</ent> and
|
||||
of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Action, from the <ent type='ORG'>Knights</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Columbus</ent>, to the <ent type='ORG'>Falangists</ent>
|
||||
of Franco's black army, should be counted in it. <ent type='PERSON'>Petain</ent> and
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Weygand</ent>, <ent type='PERSON'>Leopold</ent> and <ent type='ORG'>Laval</ent>, are part of it. Below all their discord
|
||||
they follow a consistent purpose, the aggrandizement of <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent>,
|
||||
which means the protection or increase of the power and wealth of
|
||||
|
|
@ -867,14 +867,14 @@ see in the final chapter.</p>
|
|||
|
||||
<p> RESTORING THE CORPSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> How did <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> hope to profit by its alliance with the
|
||||
<p> How did the Vatican hope to profit by its alliance with the
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Axis</ent> powers? Even those who might hesitate to agree that the Black
|
||||
International always seeks its own aggrandizement in its policy
|
||||
will not question that it did so in supporting <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>, and
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>. They offered <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> certain advantages. If any <ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> were to plead that <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> supported them simply
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>. They offered the Vatican certain advantages. If any <ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> were to plead that the Vatican supported them simply
|
||||
because it approved of their "ideology" he would have to admit that
|
||||
from the start <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> condemned democracy and was opposed to
|
||||
from the start the Vatican condemned democracy and was opposed to
|
||||
liberty as it is understood in <ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent> lands. The first alliance
|
||||
was with <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, and no dictator was louder or more scornful in his
|
||||
denunciation of democracy, freedom, and liberalism than <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>.
|
||||
|
|
@ -892,17 +892,17 @@ nation. He had very many admirers in other lands, it is true, but
|
|||
they expressly condemned these principles of his and professed his
|
||||
real merit in their eyes was, of course, his persecution of
|
||||
Socialism and <ent type='NORP'>Communism</ent> -- only to admire his efficiency; and with
|
||||
this supposed virtue of Fascism <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> had nothing whatever to
|
||||
do. This applies fully to <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> also, for <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s essential
|
||||
this supposed virtue of Fascism the Vatican had nothing whatever to
|
||||
do. This applies fully to <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> also, for Hitler's essential
|
||||
appeal to the nation was to substitute <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent>m for democracy and to
|
||||
expand <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> by wars of conquest. <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> was equally anti-<ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent> and even more bent upon wars of aggression.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> I need not repeat the evidence that <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> was fully
|
||||
<p> I need not repeat the evidence that the Vatican was fully
|
||||
aware of this. <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent>m developed under the very nose of the present
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> when he was <ent type='PERSON'>Nuncio</ent> for eleven years in <ent type='GPE'>Munich</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Berlin</ent>. As
|
||||
he has lived in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, in the highest official capacity of the
|
||||
Vatican since the end of 1929 he is equally aware of every facet of
|
||||
Fascism. Whatever defects you may attribute to <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>'s
|
||||
Fascism. Whatever defects you may attribute to the Vatican's
|
||||
intelligence-service you cannot doubt its full acquaintance with
|
||||
the aims of the <ent type='ORG'>Axis</ent> powers. What, then, attracted it to and kept
|
||||
it bound up to this day with these bloody-minded anachronistic
|
||||
|
|
@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ forces?</p>
|
|||
<p> In the first place, of course, their promise to destroy
|
||||
Socialism and <ent type='NORP'>Communism</ent> which were, as I amply proved, ravaging the
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> even more rapidly than modern middle-class culture was. And
|
||||
in this <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> shrewdly calculated that it would have the
|
||||
in this the Vatican shrewdly calculated that it would have the
|
||||
sympathy and support of those elements of the democracies, wealth
|
||||
and the ruling class, which alone matter to it. They are much too
|
||||
refined and humane to sanction the principle of bloody persecution
|
||||
|
|
@ -919,14 +919,14 @@ or violent suppression, but this did not oblige them to shed tears
|
|||
when the <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent> powers applied the principle to Socialism and
|
||||
promised to extend it to that pestilential swamp, <ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>.
|
||||
That is the chief reason why <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> found
|
||||
nothing wrong in <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>'s alliance with super-crooks until the
|
||||
nothing wrong in the Vatican's alliance with super-crooks until the
|
||||
scoundrels double-crossed them and turned upon themselves.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> <ent type='ORG'>The Vatican</ent> had always courted the applause of these classes
|
||||
and of the ruling class everywhere by condemning Socialism. Even in
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, where medieval <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> principles are dressed in
|
||||
dungarees, so to say, <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent>'s condemnation of Socialism was
|
||||
sustained. You may remember <ent type='PERSON'>Msgr</ent>. Ryan fulsomely assuring <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>
|
||||
sustained. You may remember Msgr. Ryan fulsomely assuring <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>
|
||||
that Socialism was so clearly immoral that if <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> ordered <ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> to submit to a Socialist government they would
|
||||
conscientiously refuse. A very golden sentiment! But if <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent>
|
||||
|
|
@ -952,8 +952,8 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
|||
|
||||
<p> In our age of confusion it is difficult to trace contemporary
|
||||
developments but as far as I can discover this was at first the
|
||||
chief feature that led <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> into alliance with <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>,
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>, and the Spanish <ent type='NORP'>Falangists</ent>. Its connection with <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> is
|
||||
chief feature that led the Vatican into alliance with <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>,
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>, and <ent type='ORG'>the Spanish</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Falangists</ent>. Its connection with <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> is
|
||||
different, since it had in that country no large body of <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>
|
||||
which was being disrupted by <ent type='NORP'>Communism</ent>. But there is one secret
|
||||
about its bargain with <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent>. If it would use its influence to keep
|
||||
|
|
@ -967,11 +967,11 @@ religions cause it. <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> meant, of course, to suppress
|
|||
<ent type='NORP'>Christianity</ent> completely in Eastern <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent> and <ent type='LOC'>the Pacific Islands</ent>
|
||||
once its conquest was accomplished.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In the case of <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> at first <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> contemplated only
|
||||
<p> In the case of <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> at first the Vatican contemplated only
|
||||
the suppression of Socialism and <ent type='NORP'>Communism</ent>, to which it was loosing
|
||||
millions of its subjects, and an assurance that its own
|
||||
institutions would be respected. The <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent>, probably with a good
|
||||
laugh over a bottle of wine behind the <ent type='ORG'>muncio</ent>'s back, solemnly
|
||||
laugh over a bottle of wine behind the muncio's back, solemnly
|
||||
promised to respect <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> schools, seminaries, charitable
|
||||
institutions, newspapers, and associations; all of which they have
|
||||
ruined. All that one need say about that is that for once the
|
||||
|
|
@ -983,13 +983,13 @@ promises.</p>
|
|||
|
||||
<p> In the case of <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> the promise made to <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> was far
|
||||
larger and has been much better kept; which is no proof of virtue
|
||||
but reflects the fact that <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> now rules the majority of
|
||||
but reflects the fact that the Vatican now rules the majority of
|
||||
the nation -- not one-sixth of it, as in <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> -- and could make
|
||||
serious trouble. <ent type='ORG'>The Vatican</ent> knew that the <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent>s would find it
|
||||
very difficult ever to take back the political independence granted
|
||||
to it and the greater part of the $90000000 that went with this.
|
||||
But I explained that the Concordat gave <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> even greater
|
||||
advantages, since <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> needed the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s help far more than
|
||||
advantages, since <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> needed the Pope's help far more than
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> did. It gave the clergy a great increase of income, a
|
||||
religious control of the schools, and the incorporation in the
|
||||
civil law of very important clauses of the Canon Law. The <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1001,8 +1001,8 @@ glorious victories both for the state and <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent>.</p>
|
|||
|
||||
<p> The Papal ambition or plan to profit by the conquests of the
|
||||
greedy and callous adventurers grew with the growth of their
|
||||
programs. <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s program in 1932 did not read beyond the <ent type='GPE'>Ukraine</ent>
|
||||
in the east and <ent type='GPE'>Alsace</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Lorraine</ent> in the west. <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>'s program
|
||||
programs. Hitler's program in 1932 did not read beyond the <ent type='GPE'>Ukraine</ent>
|
||||
in the east and <ent type='GPE'>Alsace</ent>-<ent type='PERSON'>Lorraine</ent> in the west. Mussolini's program
|
||||
was still confined to the recovery by war of <ent type='ORG'>Savoy</ent>, Corsica,
|
||||
Dalmatia, <ent type='GPE'>Malta</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Tunisia</ent>. As we saw, the amazing supineness and
|
||||
obtuseness of the western democracies encouraged the growth of
|
||||
|
|
@ -1015,38 +1015,38 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
|||
<ent type='ORG'>FASCIST ROMANISM DEFIES</ent> CIVILIZATION</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>with <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> and make a shot at <ent type='EVENT'>the New World</ent>. They still found the
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s soporific influence in <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> very
|
||||
Pope's soporific influence in <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> very
|
||||
useful and they encouraged him to cultivate imperialistic dreams of
|
||||
his own. In the wake of these noble conquests of the world he was
|
||||
going to bring under <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> larger stretches of the earth than
|
||||
going to bring under the Vatican larger stretches of the earth than
|
||||
any other <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> has dreamed of since the 16th Century.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This great <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> League of Nations was to have three
|
||||
sections. One was the <ent type='NORP'>Iberian</ent> section, bringing into at least a
|
||||
cultured and spiritual unity <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent>, and all the <ent type='NORP'>Latin</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>American</ent> countries. The idea is known in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> and much discussed
|
||||
as "<ent type='NORP'>Hispanidad</ent>." Literally it means "Spanishness" or the Spanish
|
||||
as "<ent type='NORP'>Hispanidad</ent>." Literally it means "Spanishness" or <ent type='ORG'>the Spanish</ent>
|
||||
spirit. Spanish <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>ism is such a beautiful and lofty thing --
|
||||
don't laugh just yet -- that it must smooth out <ent type='NORP'>Portuguese</ent>
|
||||
idiosyncrasies, when <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> has annexed <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> to <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, and must
|
||||
embrace all <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> from Ciudad Juarez to <ent type='GPE'>Tierra del Fuego</ent>. In
|
||||
October (1941) the <ent type='NORP'>Spaniard</ent>s established a Council of the Spanish-Speaking World, and the <ent type='ORG'>Falangist</ent> papers quite seriously gave
|
||||
October (1941) the <ent type='NORP'>Spaniard</ent>s established a Council of <ent type='ORG'>the Spanish</ent>-Speaking World, and the <ent type='ORG'>Falangist</ent> papers quite seriously gave
|
||||
President <ent type='PERSON'>Roosevelt</ent> a warning to keep his hands off <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> and
|
||||
Central <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. The <ent type='GPE'>London</ent> press reported them in November saying
|
||||
that "<ent type='PERSON'>Roosevelt</ent>'s tutorship is unsolicited" and that "<ent type='NORP'>Spaniard</ent>s are
|
||||
that "Roosevelt's tutorship is unsolicited" and that "<ent type='NORP'>Spaniard</ent>s are
|
||||
the only ones entitled to look after Spanish <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>." <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> has
|
||||
found it necessary to give in public a comical assurance that he
|
||||
has no secular designs on territory in <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>; that <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>'s
|
||||
has no secular designs on territory in <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>; that Spain's
|
||||
"hegemony" will be purely cultural and religious.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> I do not know how far <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> prevent these insolent
|
||||
pleasantries from appearing in the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> press, but <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>
|
||||
and the Spanish hierarchy and government are portentously serious
|
||||
pleasantries from appearing in the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> press, but the Vatican
|
||||
and <ent type='ORG'>the Spanish</ent> hierarchy and government are portentously serious
|
||||
about the idea, and <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> is stupid enough, in spite of his modest
|
||||
words to think that when <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Fifth Columnists</ent> have destroyed the
|
||||
existing governments in <ent type='NORP'>Latin</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> will allow <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> to
|
||||
annex them. The idea is directly inspired by the language which the
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> addressed to the <ent type='NORP'>Spaniard</ent>s during and after the <ent type='ORG'>Rebellion</ent>.
|
||||
On April 16, 1939, <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> <ent type='PERSON'>Pius XII</ent> broadcast a message -- reproduced
|
||||
On April 16, 1939, <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> Pius XII broadcast a message -- reproduced
|
||||
by his biographer <ent type='PERSON'>Rankin</ent> in The <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> Speaks, (1941, p. 145) -- in
|
||||
the course of which he Said:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -1063,7 +1063,7 @@ betrays a mental squint that makes him totally <ent type='ORG'>Unfit</ent> to gu
|
|||
bodies of men. He completely ignores the fact that it was <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>
|
||||
and <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> who for their own purposes took up a handful of Spanish
|
||||
rebels and <ent type='NORP'>Moorish</ent> mercenaries and conquered <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> for <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent>, and
|
||||
he quite solemnly represents the bravery of <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent>'s Spanish troops
|
||||
he quite solemnly represents the bravery of Franco's Spanish troops
|
||||
as a lesson for the <ent type='NORP'>Russians</ent> who, without a single foreign soldier,
|
||||
have beaten the greatest military power of all time fighting on a
|
||||
single front!</p>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1079,14 +1079,14 @@ mass of lies and legends that it would not be worth discussing
|
|||
except as an illustration of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> culture and mentality. <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent>
|
||||
himself told his followers after the victory that they were going
|
||||
to restore the glories of the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> of the <ent type='NORP'>Conquistadors</ent>,
|
||||
of <ent type='PERSON'>Ferdinand</ent> and <ent type='PERSON'>Isabella</ent> and all the other grand Castiliai
|
||||
of Ferdinand and <ent type='PERSON'>Isabella</ent> and all the other grand Castiliai
|
||||
monarchs. That is, in fact, the main idea of <ent type='NORP'>Hispanidad</ent>; and it
|
||||
rests upon as gross a fabric of historical untruth as you will find
|
||||
anywhere.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> We acknowledge the valor in fighting of the medieval Spanish
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Knights</ent> -- except, significantly, that great <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> hero
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Ferdinand</ent>, who never fought for a thing if he could get it by lying
|
||||
Ferdinand, who never fought for a thing if he could get it by lying
|
||||
and treachery -- but with that virtue they shared all the vices of
|
||||
the knights of the so-called age of chivalry. They were densely
|
||||
ignorant, licentious, brutal, and dishonorable. They conquered the
|
||||
|
|
@ -1102,29 +1102,29 @@ that they ruined <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> in little over a century. It had in
|
|||
the brilliant civilization of the <ent type='NORP'>Arabs</ent>, to which it added the gold
|
||||
of <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, but in two centuries its population fell from
|
||||
30000000 to about 7000000 and it was despised as the poorest
|
||||
and most ignorant country in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>. Of the Bourbon dynasty of
|
||||
and most ignorant country in Europe. Of the Bourbon dynasty of
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> monarchs in the 19th Century it is enough to say that they
|
||||
were the most selfish and licentious in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>, and every member of
|
||||
were the most selfish and licentious in Europe, and every member of
|
||||
the dynasty was expelled from <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent> by the people except Alfonso
|
||||
XII, who died prematurely of consumption brought on by his
|
||||
excesses.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This beautiful <ent type='NORP'>Hispanidad</ent> slew more unarmed <ent type='NORP'>democrats</ent> to
|
||||
protect its own corruption and <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent>, in the 19th Century than
|
||||
any other country in <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent> except <ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent>, and with a ferocity that
|
||||
any other country in Europe except <ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent>, and with a ferocity that
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Naples</ent> did not surpass. This "nation chosen by God" presents today
|
||||
the most sordid spectacle in the world, apart from countries
|
||||
overrun by the <ent type='ORG'>Axis</ent> troops (the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s allies), of injustice and
|
||||
overrun by the <ent type='ORG'>Axis</ent> troops (the Pope's allies), of injustice and
|
||||
brutal intolerance. In a previous booklet I gave the report of a
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>French</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> girl on the brutality with which men and women
|
||||
"suspected of <ent type='NORP'>Communism</ent>" -- which means anybody but a loyal Spanish
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> -- are treated in the jails, <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>American</ent>
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent>s also are vilely treated. The <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent>
|
||||
Protestants also are vilely treated. The <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> Protestant
|
||||
Defense League has issued a bulletin on the subject. It says that
|
||||
30 <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> ministers have been expelled and will probably be
|
||||
30 Protestant ministers have been expelled and will probably be
|
||||
executed if they return; that two-thirds of the workers of the
|
||||
Spanish Gospel Mission have been either executed, exiled, or
|
||||
imprisoned; that four-fifths of the <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent> churches and schools
|
||||
imprisoned; that four-fifths of the Protestant churches and schools
|
||||
have been closed; and that no <ent type='NORP'>Spaniard</ent> who does not attend mass can
|
||||
get employment.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -1149,22 +1149,22 @@ burden. They have less contempt for a beggar than for a worker. And
|
|||
this is the high <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> culture that they are, they think, going
|
||||
to spread over <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> from El Paso to <ent type='GPE'>Patagonia</ent>!</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> I am not taking this dream of <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> seriously
|
||||
<p> I am not taking this dream of <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> and the Vatican seriously
|
||||
but showing the utter stupidity and falseness of things which they
|
||||
take seriously. The plan does, as little credit to the intelligence
|
||||
as it does to the moral sentiments of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>. It confirms
|
||||
as it does to the moral sentiments of the Vatican. It confirms
|
||||
every charge which I have made in these booklets, and the idea of
|
||||
invading <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> with such a culture, which <ent type='PERSON'>Franco</ent> Certainly hopes
|
||||
to follow up with political control under a restored Spanish
|
||||
monarchy, may help the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> public to demand an end of the
|
||||
representation of <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> or its President at the
|
||||
representation of <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States or its President at the
|
||||
Vatican.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This idea of a Spanish Union from the <ent type='GPE'>Philippines</ent> to <ent type='GPE'>Barcelona</ent>
|
||||
has grown out of an earlier idea of a bloc or League of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
||||
powers. When <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Belgium</ent> were "liberated" from their non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> governments by the <ent type='NORP'>Germans</ent> <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> saw at once the
|
||||
powers. When <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Belgium</ent> were "liberated" from their non-<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> governments by the <ent type='NORP'>Germans</ent> the Vatican saw at once the
|
||||
possibility of uniting them to <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> as a
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> bloc. The <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, we saw, sent a feeble letter of <ent type='PERSON'>Sympathy</ent>
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> bloc. The <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, we saw, sent a feeble letter of Sympathy
|
||||
to <ent type='PERSON'>Leopold</ent> -- the man who had betrayed it -- on the invasion of
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Belgium</ent> "against its wish," and the <ent type='PERSON'>Osservatore</ent> said something
|
||||
about a <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> "ruthless war of extermination." This "unauthorized"
|
||||
|
|
@ -1172,17 +1172,17 @@ utterance annoyed the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>s at the time, but the <ent
|
|||
about the far worse invasion of <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and his relations with
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> were not severed. There was, in fact, ample evidence, as we
|
||||
saw, that the passing of <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Empire</ent> under the
|
||||
priest-ridden <ent type='PERSON'>Petain</ent> was very welcome to <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> and, as is an
|
||||
priest-ridden <ent type='PERSON'>Petain</ent> was very welcome to the Vatican and, as is an
|
||||
axiom in <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> theology, "if you approve an end you approve the
|
||||
means to it"; which is only to be distinguished by a microscope
|
||||
from "The end justifies the means." To <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, once more <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>,
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Portugal</ent> would be added and <ent type='GPE'>Poland</ent>, in so far as
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> permitted a restoration, <ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, and the
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> permitted a restoration, Hungary, <ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, and the
|
||||
detached <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> provinces of <ent type='GPE'>Yugo</ent>-<ent type='NORP'>Slavia</ent>; a bloc of countries
|
||||
with a total population of about 150000000, all living under the
|
||||
drastically intolerant <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> law.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Doubtless <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> clings to the illusion, though it pales
|
||||
<p> Doubtless the Vatican clings to the illusion, though it pales
|
||||
before the reality of events. <ent type='PERSON'>Petain</ent> soon found that the <ent type='NORP'>French</ent>
|
||||
people compelled him to withdraw some of the measures which the
|
||||
clergy had got him to pass. Possibly the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, who must have known
|
||||
|
|
@ -1206,7 +1206,7 @@ before <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> relinquishes it, if he ever did. lt was e
|
|||
that <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> and its new province's would pass under the control of
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Hence this enfeebled and uncertain plan of a <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>an bloc,
|
||||
<p> Hence this enfeebled and uncertain plan of a European bloc,
|
||||
which might check <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent> even if he were victorious, had to be
|
||||
strengthened by <ent type='NORP'>Hispanidad</ent> and an extension of Vatican control over
|
||||
the east. I dealt with the latter at some length in an earlier
|
||||
|
|
@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ the fraudulent money (printed in <ent type='GPE'>Holland</ent>) which they use i
|
|||
promised the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> that when they had conquered all the countries in
|
||||
which the <ent type='NORP'>Greek</ent> or other Oriental <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> predominated they
|
||||
would replace this with the <ent type='NORP'>Roman</ent>. That would mean a very large
|
||||
extension of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>'s influence eastward to match the Spanish
|
||||
extension of the Vatican's influence eastward to match <ent type='ORG'>the Spanish</ent>
|
||||
extension westward.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> It is unnecessary to say that all this depended essentially
|
||||
|
|
@ -1228,7 +1228,7 @@ and clergy whom they were to displace. Not counting <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>
|
|||
180000000 people this displacement of the <ent type='NORP'>Greek</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> would give
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> 50000000 new member's.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Moreover, <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> was promised a very rich prize in the
|
||||
<p> Moreover, the Vatican was promised a very rich prize in the
|
||||
religious control of <ent type='GPE'>Palestine</ent>. A very impartial <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> daily, the
|
||||
Manchester Guardian, published the details of the compact with the
|
||||
Vatican. <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent> was to have the secular rule of <ent type='GPE'>Palestine</ent> and the
|
||||
|
|
@ -1257,7 +1257,7 @@ to <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> in removing that deadly menace. They were too soft
|
|||
violence or were misguided enough to trust argument and persuasion.
|
||||
The <ent type='ORG'>Axis</ent> powers in their own interest would make a drastic end of
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Communism and</ent> Socialism, and they were quite willing to go on to
|
||||
suppress <ent type='ORG'>Freemasonry</ent> and every critical movement that <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> hated. </p>
|
||||
suppress <ent type='NORP'>Freemasonry</ent> and every critical movement that <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> hated. </p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> Bank of Wisdom
|
||||
Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
||||
|
|
@ -1266,7 +1266,7 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
|||
<ent type='ORG'>FASCIST ROMANISM DEFIES</ent> CIVILIZATION</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p>On the second point, the extension of its power in addition to the
|
||||
recovery by force of its apostates, <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> gambled. The <ent type='ORG'>Axis</ent>
|
||||
recovery by force of its apostates, the Vatican gambled. The <ent type='ORG'>Axis</ent>
|
||||
powers might keep their promises. <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> might be able to restore the
|
||||
corpse of <ent type='LOC'>the Middle Ages</ent> in the 20th Century.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -1281,7 +1281,7 @@ own epithets to a gamble of this sort; a gamble, in effect, that
|
|||
stakes the lives of millions, the liberty of tens of millions, and
|
||||
the elementary well-being of hundreds of millions against a
|
||||
possible profit to the <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent>. I have not much space
|
||||
left to consider two points of some importance; how <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>
|
||||
left to consider two points of some importance; how the Vatican
|
||||
contrived to keep <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> in the <ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent> countries loyal and
|
||||
Submissive while it thus allied itself with their deadly enemies,
|
||||
and what <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> apologists have to say in defense of its action.</p>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1307,11 +1307,11 @@ and very orthodox <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> writer of modern <ent type='GP
|
|||
remember, too, that a number of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> Royalist-<ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent> writers
|
||||
attacked the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> very warmly, and this helped to throw dust in
|
||||
the eyes of <ent type='NORP'>democrats</ent>. <ent type='PERSON'>Paul Courcoural</ent>'s work, La fin de la
|
||||
querelle (1929) is a bitter attack on <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>, and he quotes
|
||||
querelle (1929) is a bitter attack on the Vatican, and he quotes
|
||||
several other <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> critics. One of the points made by these
|
||||
critics was that <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>, and he quotes several other <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
||||
critics was that the Vatican, and he quotes several other <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
||||
critics. One of the points made by these <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> critics was that
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> displayed grave in incompetence in allowing itself to
|
||||
the Vatican displayed grave in incompetence in allowing itself to
|
||||
be duped by governments.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In Great <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> defense would be that if the
|
||||
|
|
@ -1341,15 +1341,15 @@ the laity knew or did not know -- and we may at least say that
|
|||
educated men and women amongst them are unintelligible to us if
|
||||
they imagine that a <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent> which forbids them to read critics is
|
||||
likely to tell them the truths which the critic's do -- the higher
|
||||
clergy at least knew perfectly well that <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> entered upon
|
||||
clergy at least knew perfectly well that the Vatican entered upon
|
||||
most cordial relations with <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> after the rape of <ent type='GPE'>China</ent>, that it
|
||||
signed a Concordat with the <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent> while their hands were red with
|
||||
innocent blood, that it saw the <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> hierarchy under its eyes
|
||||
applauding one <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent> outrage after another, and so on.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> On an earlier page I quoted the saying of <ent type='PERSON'>Cardinal Hinsley</ent>
|
||||
<p> On an earlier page I quoted the saying of Cardinal Hinsley
|
||||
that <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> certainly had grave faults but he must be supported
|
||||
lest graver evils happen. He plainly meant that <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> must
|
||||
lest graver evils happen. He plainly meant that the Vatican must
|
||||
continue in alliance with the <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent> party -- must, through the
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> bishops and priests continue to keep the people loyal to
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> and approve all his actions (except infringements of the
|
||||
|
|
@ -1364,7 +1364,7 @@ power and wealth, is above all other considerations.</p>
|
|||
loathing throughout the world in the summer of 1933 when <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>
|
||||
signed his Concordat with the <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent>. That agreement stifled
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> criticism of the moral character of <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent>m and was
|
||||
welcomed with obsequious language, as a new triumph of <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>,
|
||||
welcomed with obsequious language, as a new triumph of the Vatican,
|
||||
a new <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> pilgrimage to <ent type='PERSON'>Canossa</ent>, in the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> press of
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>. Next year was the Blood Purge, the murder
|
||||
without the pretence of a trial of distinguished <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> who were
|
||||
|
|
@ -1378,7 +1378,7 @@ institutions when a monstrous epidemic of vice had been detected in
|
|||
the priests and brother's who controlled them invited the gravest
|
||||
censure; to dissolve <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> associations or fraternities and
|
||||
sororities after solemnly promising to respect them was an outrage.
|
||||
But that the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> bishops, under orders from <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>, should
|
||||
But that the <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> bishops, under orders from the Vatican, should
|
||||
forbid <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent> to help to keep out of power a party, with
|
||||
malodorous leaders, which was pledged to destroy the <ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent>
|
||||
constitution, to let loose a flood of criminals and sadists upon
|
||||
|
|
@ -1420,7 +1420,7 @@ all worked together, and on a common principle: the good of the
|
|||
<p> The situation in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> was in some respects worse than in
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>England</ent>, even when we have made allowance for the very large number
|
||||
of <ent type='NORP'>Germans</ent>, <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent>s, and <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent> in the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> body. The bishops
|
||||
and the educated <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>'s knew their Vatican quite well. It had
|
||||
and the educated Catholic's knew their Vatican quite well. It had
|
||||
airily and publicly censured them in 1899 for claiming that
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> principles could be reconciled with modern thought. The
|
||||
quarrel which followed within the sacred enclosure gave the
|
||||
|
|
@ -1440,12 +1440,12 @@ would have made the old <ent type='NORP'>Italian</ent> cardinals gasp with horro
|
|||
only is <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent> tolerant of other religions (when it is
|
||||
in a minority) but it is the very author and originator of the idea
|
||||
of religious toleration, which was born in <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='GPE'>Maryland</ent>; which
|
||||
is, as I showed in the Appeal to <ent type='ORG'>Reason Library</ent>, a lie in every
|
||||
is, as I showed in the Appeal to Reason Library, a lie in every
|
||||
syllable. Not only was its teaching consistent with <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> ideas
|
||||
of liberty and democracy but the great <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> theologians of the
|
||||
Middle Ages really inspired what we call these modern ideas. I am
|
||||
not sure if I have not read works by <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> priests in which it
|
||||
is "proved" that <ent type='PERSON'>Adam</ent>'s, <ent type='ORG'>Jefferson</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> -- they do draw
|
||||
is "proved" that Adam's, <ent type='ORG'>Jefferson</ent>, and <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent> -- they do draw
|
||||
the line at <ent type='PERSON'>Paine</ent> because they think he was an <ent type='NORP'>Atheist</ent> -- derived
|
||||
their sentiments from <ent type='PERSON'>Aquinas</ent> and the Jesuit Suarez! I have made
|
||||
merry with all this elsewhere.</p>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1456,13 +1456,13 @@ Box 926, <ent type='GPE'>Louisville</ent>, KY 40201
|
|||
.
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>FASCIST ROMANISM DEFIES</ent> CIVILIZATION</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> This sort of thing continued during the years when <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>
|
||||
<p> This sort of thing continued during the years when the Vatican
|
||||
maintained intimate relations with the <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent>s and <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent> and
|
||||
imposed a <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent> form on every <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> state it could influence.
|
||||
No one seems to have seen the joke when <ent type='PERSON'>Seldes</ent>, in his learned work
|
||||
on <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>, boasted: "There is no guillotine, no elected
|
||||
on the Vatican, boasted: "There is no guillotine, no elected
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Chamber</ent>, in the state of <ent type='GPE'>Vatican City</ent>." No one questioned <ent type='PERSON'>Pacelli</ent>,
|
||||
when he visited <ent type='GPE'>the United States</ent> in 1936, about the sequel to his
|
||||
when he visited <ent type='GPE'>the United</ent> States in 1936, about the sequel to his
|
||||
visit to <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> in 1934, when democracy was murdered in
|
||||
nearly every republic and the leaders of the men who advocated it
|
||||
were tortured in jail. No one asked why the beautiful <ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1478,7 +1478,7 @@ cheek them. It became a stereotyped phrase of the press that the
|
|||
called a splendid struggle for the preservation of democracy,
|
||||
freedom, and every element of decency in our civilization most of
|
||||
the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> bishops, priests, and papers swept aside as a stupid
|
||||
squabble of these <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>ans about their respective idealogies. The
|
||||
squabble of these Europeans about their respective idealogies. The
|
||||
powerful Jesuit organ <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> attacked President <ent type='PERSON'>Roosevelt</ent> and
|
||||
demanded that no munitions for <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> should be made in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>.
|
||||
The <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Herald</ent> repeatedly published such messages as
|
||||
|
|
@ -1489,7 +1489,7 @@ been giving the greatest concern to the authorities at <ent type='GPE'>Washingto
|
|||
has been the attitude of <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>" (November 15, 1940),
|
||||
and January 3, March 14, etc., 1941).</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In the following summer (<ent type='ORG'>Reynolds News</ent>, June 29, 1941), the
|
||||
<p> In the following summer (<ent type='PERSON'>Reynolds</ent> News, June 29, 1941), the
|
||||
very impartial H.N. Brallsford, who was then in <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, reported
|
||||
it as strong as ever. In the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> press Cardinal Dougherty,
|
||||
Cardinal O'Connell -- were they unable to shed their <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent>
|
||||
|
|
@ -1508,11 +1508,11 @@ much even for the <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> brand of the <ent type='ORG'>Bl
|
|||
relaxed its censorship of the press and for once let a fact which
|
||||
was gravely discreditable to <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> go through.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> That this attitude was inspired by <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> became quite
|
||||
<p> That this attitude was inspired by the Vatican became quite
|
||||
clear when <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> was drawn into the war. The <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> opposition
|
||||
to helping <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> was intensified. <ent type='PERSON'>William Broun</ent>, <ent type='GPE'>Washington</ent>
|
||||
correspondent of <ent type='ORG'>Reynolds News</ent>, the only quite honest and
|
||||
independent Sunday paper in <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> (though, like all the others,
|
||||
correspondent of <ent type='PERSON'>Reynolds</ent> News, the only quite honest and
|
||||
independent <ent type='LOC'>Sunday</ent> paper in <ent type='GPE'>Britain</ent> (though, like all the others,
|
||||
subject to <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> influence), cabled (October 12) this news and
|
||||
added:
|
||||
Bank of Wisdom
|
||||
|
|
@ -1534,7 +1534,7 @@ possibly have held its ground if <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> had fallen and <en
|
|||
intervened. All the sophistry with which the <ent type='NORP'>Irish</ent> prelates of
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and <ent type='GPE'>Australia</ent> and the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> naval and military leaders
|
||||
of <ent type='GPE'>France</ent> decked their sheer hatred and jealousy of <ent type='GPE'>England</ent> cannot
|
||||
conceal what would have been the consequences to <ent type='LOC'>Europe</ent>, <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, the
|
||||
conceal what would have been the consequences to Europe, <ent type='LOC'>Asia</ent>, the
|
||||
northern half of <ent type='LOC'>Africa</ent>, and possibly of <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent>, of such an
|
||||
event.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -1551,7 +1551,7 @@ discussed, the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> <ent type='ORG'>Herald</ent> had
|
|||
filthy straw."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> To such depths of stupidity and indifference to human welfare
|
||||
had <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent>'s ten year crusade against <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> dragged the
|
||||
had the Vatican's ten year crusade against <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> dragged the
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> world. One of the very few <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> members of <ent type='ORG'>the House</ent>
|
||||
of Commons spoke in public of <ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent>m and <ent type='NORP'>Bolshevism</ent> as two evils
|
||||
and added: "We are not fighting the one which is the worst." In the
|
||||
|
|
@ -1560,16 +1560,16 @@ In <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>, where they had to have some regard for public
|
|||
they soon found the stupid formula that they would support the
|
||||
government in sending all possible help to <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> but it must be
|
||||
understood that they were not allying themselves with <ent type='NORP'>Communism</ent> or
|
||||
Atheism! In Canada <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>'s organized a strike in one of the
|
||||
Atheism! In <ent type='GPE'>Canada</ent> Catholic's organized a strike in one of the
|
||||
vitally important monition-enterprises. In Eire the chief <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
||||
weekly, the <ent type='ORG'>Standard</ent>, said:</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> "Those who do not want a <ent type='NORP'>German</ent> victory must now reflect on
|
||||
the social and religious implications of a Russo-<ent type='NORP'>British</ent> victory."</p>
|
||||
|
||||
<p> In <ent type='GPE'>New Zealand</ent> the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> organ (<ent type='ORG'>Zealandia</ent>, July 3, 1941)
|
||||
<p> In <ent type='GPE'>New Zealand</ent> the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> organ (Zealandia, July 3, 1941)
|
||||
fierily attacked <ent type='ORG'>Church</ent>ill's promise to help <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> -- help <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent>
|
||||
to relieve <ent type='GPE'>England</ent>'s grave peril remember! -- and said that it
|
||||
to relieve England's grave peril remember! -- and said that it
|
||||
betrayed "a mentality which it is hoped does not indicate the
|
||||
opinion of the majority within the <ent type='GPE'>Empire</ent>" and that "to aid <ent type='NORP'>Soviet</ent>
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> even against our common foe is to invite the curse of God
|
||||
|
|
@ -1588,7 +1588,7 @@ with an hilarious paragraph on how the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, after wind
|
|||
made them opposed or very feebly Sustain the policy of their
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>democratic</ent> governments in a time of crisis, seems to be deserting
|
||||
them. I quoted the words attributed to the <ent type='NORP'>American</ent> envoy, who had
|
||||
an hour's private talk with <ent type='PERSON'>Pius XII</ent> before he left <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>; the
|
||||
an hour's private talk with Pius XII before he left <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>; the
|
||||
statement that the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> recognized in private that while <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent>
|
||||
was thoroughly corrupt, <ent type='GPE'>Russia</ent> was merely good with the wrong sort
|
||||
of goodness. We had had quite a string of messages (unauthorized)
|
||||
|
|
@ -1596,7 +1596,7 @@ from places where Mr. <ent type='PERSON'>Myron</ent> C. <ent type='PERSON'>Taylo
|
|||
had chats with Spanish and <ent type='NORP'>Portuguese</ent> authorities and with <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent>
|
||||
officials from Eire and <ent type='GPE'>Vichy</ent>. One day we learned that the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> was
|
||||
about to bless democracy; the next day that he had refused Mr.
|
||||
<ent type='PERSON'>Roosevelt</ent>'s request that he should do so. Meantime <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> has flung
|
||||
Roosevelt's request that he should do so. Meantime <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> has flung
|
||||
all its forces and its unscrupulous cunning on the side of the
|
||||
<ent type='ORG'>Axis</ent>, and the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> is again the Great Neutral.</p>
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -1607,7 +1607,7 @@ the heading, to please <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>, "The <ent type='PERSON'
|
|||
And the very first line of his Christmas message speaks of "the New
|
||||
Order" as an established or certain-to-be-established fact, while
|
||||
the last line rejoices in "the admirable spectacle of valor in the
|
||||
defense of the <ent type='NORP'>Latin</ent> soil." Will any priest suggest that <ent type='NORP'>Britons</ent>,
|
||||
defense of the <ent type='NORP'>Latin</ent> soil." Will any priest suggest that <ent type='GPE'>Britons</ent>,
|
||||
<ent type='NORP'>American</ent>s, <ent type='NORP'>Dutch</ent>, or <ent type='NORP'>Russians</ent> are defending <ent type='NORP'>Latin</ent> soil somewhere?
|
||||
Or that it is they who claim to establish a New Order? The rest of
|
||||
the message is the usual panegyric of liberty (as practiced in
|
||||
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<p><ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> missions in <ent type='GPE'>Manchuria</ent>. That is a matter of routine.
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<ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, already rotten with <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> intrigue, advised the Japs (I
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showed) to get into friendly and increasingly intimate relations
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with <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> so that it could use its <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent> to
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with the Vatican so that it could use its <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent> to
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damp in every country the anger and suspicion the Japs had
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incurred. The influence of <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> agents and the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> press
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is the main cause why <ent type='GPE'>Japan</ent> could steal province after province of
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<ent type='GPE'>China</ent> and heap up forces for its pernicious designs without rousing
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the world.</p>
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> had already approached <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> and signed the
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<p> <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent> had already approached the Vatican and signed the
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famous Treaty and Concordat (1929). Again there is not the least
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ambiguity. <ent type='PERSON'>Mussolini</ent>'s position was very insecure, and his
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ambiguity. Mussolini's position was very insecure, and his
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royalist, military, and capitalist backers insisted that he should
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come to terms with the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>, who could secure for him the absolute
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obedience of half the country in addition to his <ent type='NORP'>Fascist</ent> quarter.
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wanted was the unity and enthusiasm of the nation. The bishops saw
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that he got them.</p>
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<p> <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> approached <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> through <ent type='PERSON'>Von Papen</ent> (and probably
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<p> <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> approached the Vatican through <ent type='PERSON'>Von Papen</ent> (and probably
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<ent type='ORG'>Thyssen</ent>) in 1932. It came with a blatant program of aggression in
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its hands, and it dipped these hands deep in blood before it signed
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the Concordat. By that Concordat <ent type='GPE'>the Vatican</ent> got promise that the
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the Concordat. By that Concordat the Vatican got promise that the
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<ent type='NORP'>Nazis</ent>, who were out to destroy all freedom but their own, would
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grant remarkable liberties to the <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> body. What did the
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Vatican promise in return? Nothing? <ent type='PERSON'>Don</ent>'t make us laugh in so
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Vatican promise in return? Nothing? Don't make us laugh in so
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serious a time. It promised that <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> would "keep out of
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politics"; which meant, as in <ent type='GPE'>Italy</ent>, that the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> would never pass
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any moral judgment on <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s program, methods, and crimes, and
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any moral judgment on Hitler's program, methods, and crimes, and
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that the <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent> in <ent type='GPE'>Germany</ent> would fully support them.
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We have seen the promise fulfilled. <ent type='NORP'>Peevish</ent> complaints about non-observance of the Concordat do not count especially when they are
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accompanied by assurances that there is not the least intention of
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weakening <ent type='PERSON'>Hitler</ent>'s authority in the minds of <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>.</p>
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weakening Hitler's authority in the minds of <ent type='NORP'>Catholics</ent>.</p>
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<p> This alliance of the <ent type='ORG'>Papacy</ent> with the arch-criminals during ten
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years, and still more the intimate alliance with them of the
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@ -1732,7 +1732,7 @@ price they pay for supporting the <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent>.</p>
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of the nominal body, from the <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent> to your <ent type='NORP'>Catholic</ent> neighbor would
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make this other-world appeal their main defense. Less than 100
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years ago their fathers made it a ground for the persecution, where
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they had the power, of even <ent type='NORP'>Protestant</ent>s. There was no salivation
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they had the power, of even Protestants. There was no salivation
|
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outside <ent type='ORG'>the Church</ent> of <ent type='GPE'>Rome</ent>. It is amazing to read the daring
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language in which their apologists today concede that there may be.
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Not, of course, if one is a <ent type='NORP'>Communist</ent> and <ent type='NORP'>Atheist</ent>. That is why any
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.
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<ent type='ORG'>FASCIST ROMANISM DEFIES</ent> CIVILIZATION</p>
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<p> Further, in what way could a <ent type='PERSON'>Pope</ent>'s message have the effect
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||||
<p> Further, in what way could a Pope's message have the effect
|
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which is so fulsomely attributed to it? Only when his local agents
|
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in any country, the hierarchy and clergy, consistently and
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explicitly applied it to the leaders or ruling class of that
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@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@ hierarchies, individually, and officially, applauded every
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"conquest" of their bloody-minded rulers and never warned their
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people that their leaders were bringing an historic shame upon
|
||||
them, Add the conduct of the hierarchy and clergy in <ent type='GPE'>Spain</ent>, in
|
||||
<ent type='GPE'>Hungary</ent>, in <ent type='GPE'>Vichy</ent> <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, in <ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, in <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and you
|
||||
Hungary, in <ent type='GPE'>Vichy</ent> <ent type='GPE'>France</ent>, in <ent type='GPE'>Slovakia</ent>, in <ent type='LOC'>South</ent> <ent type='GPE'>America</ent> and you
|
||||
have the real picture of what the <ent type='ORG'>Black International</ent> has done for
|
||||
the world.</p>
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