Osservatore Romano, linking Nazism and Communism as doctrines which fear to tell the public the truth, protested last night against what it termed a deliberate German campaign to mutilate and misinterpret the words of Pope Pius XI and his bishops in the Reich, according to the Havas News Agency.
Such tactics, the Vatican organ said, are common to Communism and National Socialism, and “reveal their lack of confidence in public opinion and their fear of the influence which dissemination of the truth might have on the public.”
Osservatore accused Nazi newspapers of willfully mutilating the Pope’s words to make it seem he was indifferent to events in Spain but unbending toward National Socialism.
The journal also published on its front page long extracts from a speech by Karl Joseph Cardinal Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne, complaining of the obstacles put in the path of church authorities who sought to acquaint German Catholics with the Pope’s addresses.
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