Vatican Organ Hits Nazism, Warns of Results of Anti-semitism

A biting attack against Nazism, branding it as Communism flavored with ultra-Nationalism, was published today by the authoritative Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano.

The attack was contained in an article written by the Jesuit priest, Rev. Father Enrico Rosa, who asserted that Nazism could lay claim to no originality. It had borrowed all its ideas from the Communists and added to these the concept of Nationalism, which it had in turn borrowed from Italian Fascism.

Indicating that the Vatican is determined to wage its war against Nazism without cease, the article assailed the Nazi ideological doctrines and warned against the serious future repercussions of anti-Semitic policy.

Accusing the Nazis of wishing to found a new religion, Father Rosa stated: “These mystical aberrations, if they can find passing success in spirits troubled by materialism, are none the less the most inexcusable form of madness when they are espoused by statesmen or governments.”

Referring to the Jewish persecution, the writer added: “These brutal measures, without juridical basis, cannot constitute an equitable and durable solution to the formidable problem of Judaism.” He argued that they were likely to aggravate the situation, for the de-Christianization of Germany, after that of Russia, paved the way for the future revenge of the Jews.

Replying to the statement made by a Catholic journal in Vienna that the “German Aryan should recognize the voice of God in the historic and world mission of Hitler,” Father Rosa concluded: “We pray rather that the mission of Nazism and of its chief may change totally in inspiration and orientation after being definitely anti-Christian, and that it will at least respect, as regards Christianism and the Catholic Church, the essential obligations and laws which are contracted for and fixed by a solemn concordat concluded with the Holy See.”