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Pope's Threat To Hlfilei?
CRISIS BETWEEN NAZIS
AND VATICAN
Our Own Cable Service.
-LONDON. Sundav.
DEPORTS reaching, here to-day; suggest strongly that Pope
Pius XI is threatening to excommunicate Hitler. .
Everything points to the conclusion that
the long struggle between Nazism and the
Catholic Church Is moving swutiy to a
CW&1.A . , ,
Dr. Goebbels, German Minister for
Propaganda, to-day decreed (hat all '
Catholic: .bishops must in future submit
their sermons and pastoral , letters to
.Government censorship. ' -
Hitler Is reported to be preparing a'
dramatic stroke against tire Ohuroh for
Christmas eve.
Tlie Pope's threat Is prorapled by his
Indignation at tho wholesale' confiscation
of. Oathollo property and the closing of
Catholic schools in Austria, . -
, 'He was also incensed at the' Nazi
outrages against Cardinal . InnltzerV
. Archbishop of Vienna, and the Bishop
of Rottcnburg. .
In both cases the prelates' palaces were
Invaded and sacked by a Nazi mob.
Herr Buerckol, Nazi Commlrsloner for
Austria, first denied that' the Nazis were
responsible for the Invasion . of . Cardinal
Imiltzer's palace.
He later , asserted that the Cardinal had
provoked the outrage. ,.
. The Pope hopes tliat his threat may
be in - time to save what ls lcft of
Catholic property and . seeare. /.protec
tion for Cathollo Church members.
If carried out It would' strike -a heavy
blow at Hitler's hold on tho allegiance of
tho large German Catholic. population..
: The Rhlheland and Bavaria and pre
dominantly Catholic, and also: the bulk of
the Austrian rural population.
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