The Bishops of all the eight dioceses in Bavaria, where the Hitlerist movement was started, and which is to-day one of the Hitlerist strongholds (it was in the Bavarian capital, Munich, that the Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch of 1923 was carried out) have published a pronouncement prohibiting Catholics from belonging to the Hitlerist Party. The Hitlerists, the pronouncement says, deny the divine inspiration of the Old Testament, which they denounce as a Jewish work, and they do not even recognise the authority of the Ten Commandments, because they were given through Moses.
Bishop Ludwig Maria Hugo, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Mayence denounced Hitlerism recently, in the form of a pastoral letter forbidding Roman Catholics under pain of excommunication to belong to the Hitlerist movement, whose teachings he declared to be incompatible with Christianity.
The Hitlerists were furious at his action, and violent attacks were made on him in the Hitlerist Press. About a month ago, he was set upon in the streets of Mayence by a gang of Hitlerists, while he was going on an official errand. His chaplains, who were accompanying him protected him from the Hitlerets who pelted him with snowballs.
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