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Lesson 82

THE HIERARCHY AND MODERN DICTATORS

"My kingdom is not of this world." That is Christ Jesus speaking, and certainly not the voice of any of the presumptuous Hierarchy popes who claim to be His "vicar". Jesus spurned Satan's offer of world kingdoms, but the power-mad Hierarchy reaches out greedy hands for world domination. Instead of saying, "Get thee hence, Satan," that religio-political organization readily makes leagues and concordats and secret agreements with the devilish dictators of today. —Matt. 4: 8-10; John 18: 36.

ITALY. First to be briefly investigated in the parade of paramour states is that of the Hierarchy's homeland, Italy. Here the Vatican has been re-wedded in a union of church

and state, the latest marriage contract or concordat being signed with Mussolini in 1929, and still operating. Let the following extracts speak for themselves.

Cardinal Gasparri, as Pius' personal representative to the Eucharistic Congress in Sulmona, Italy, said: "The Fascist Government of Italy is the only exception to the political anarchy of governments, parliaments and schools the world over [this was prior to Catholic Hitler's Nazi Germany]." (London Daily Herald 9/15/32)

The Osservatore Romano of August 22, 1935, on the very day the League of Nations met to consider the Fascist attack on helpless Ethiopia, reported that 57 bishops and 19 archbishops of Italy sent to Mussolini a joint telegram which read as follows: "Catholic Italy thanked Jesus Christ for the renewed greatness of the country made stronger by Mussolini's policy."

Cardinal Schuster of Milan, friend of Pope Pius XI, on October 28, 1935, is reported to have said: "The Italian flag is at this moment bringing in triumph the cross of Christ to Ethiopia to free the road for the emancipation of the slaves, opening it at the same time to our missionary propaganda."

SPAIN. In Spain the hand of the Hierarchy has been firm, gory, and oppressive. A legally constituted republic was formed in 1931, with a new constitution authorizing the separation of church and state, the confiscation of church property to become publicly owned, and the wresting of education from the hands of the clergy. Quickly the Hierarchy retaliated by organizing a counter revolution under her loyal son, General Franco, whom she blessed and designated "a Christian gentleman". The Hierarchy-inspired civil war concluded March 28, 1939, with the surrender of Madrid to General "Butcher" Franco, who thus successfully overthrew the democratic Spanish Republic with the aid of the Church and her loyal sons, Hitler and Mussolini. Franco at once proceeded to set up a totalitarian government, reinstated the Church to her former position, re-

turned confiscated church property, and restored education to its former parochial status. The following quotation is informative and, incidentally, punctures the Hierarchy claim that Franco saved Spain from Communism.

Alexander H. Uhl, foreign editor of PM, testifies: "I was a correspondent in Madrid for the Associated Press for a year before the Civil War broke out. What I write now is about things that I have seen with my own eyes. The Franco revolution was the revolution of Spain's landed proprietors, of Spain's reactionary clergy, of Spain's monarchial aristocracy and industrialists against the rising tide of democracy that had been rolling up each day stronger and stronger since World War I. The government against which Franco and his generals revolted was a Popular Front government. It was a government made up of republicans, liberals, labor union parties, socialists. There was not a Communist in it. It was a government that was determined to separate state and church, as we have in the U.S.A., and establish lay education as we have it, too."

GERMANY. The caldron of religion in Germany has ever been kept boiling by the Hierarchy. She has always favored Germany as her "church sword". It should be remembered that it was the London treaty of 1915, made with the kingdom of Italy, that barred the pope from having any part in the negotiations of the peace treaty of World War I, the pope's connections with the Teutonic allies having been so notorious. With Catholic Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the Hierarchy quickly signed a concordat with the Nazi regime, which still stands. Further evidence follows.

Franz von Papen, papal knight and one of Hitler's foreign emissaries, declared in Der Völkischer Beobachter, January 14, 1934: "The Third Reich is the first power which not only recognizes, but which puts into practice the high principles of the Papacy."

"The German war aims were outlined tonight as a re-establishment of the Holy Roman Empire by Dr. Edmund

A. Walsh, regent of the Foreign Service School of Georgetown University [a Jesuit university near Washington, D.C.] . . . Dr. Walsh said that he had heard Adolf Hitler say that the Holy Roman Empire, which was a Germanic empire, must he re-established." (New York Times, February 17, 1940)

"BERLIN, August 27 (AP) — A pledge of loyalty to Adolf Hitler by the German Catholic Bishops Conference at Fulda is to be read to the faithful from pulpits at the end of the war, D.N.B., official news agency, said today. The pledge to Hitler is contained in expressions of gratitude to German troops adopted by the conference which ended August 22. The agency said the view predominated at the conference that 'the Catholic church in Germany is indebted to German troops for the victorious advance and defense of the German homeland. Without the successful warding off of enemy invasion by German armed forces, German Catholics could not have pursued so undisturbed and quietly their church work and ministerial offices'." (Published by the Philadelphia Record, August 28, 1940)

JAPAN. Diplomatic relations were established between Japan and the Vatican in June, 1942, which was after the Pearl Harbor sneak attack! Note the following:

The Japan Times, Tokyo, makes the following report: "The voice of justice has come from the Vatican. Never before has such wholehearted support of Japan's present action in China been given outside the nation. Furthermore, the significance of the Holy See's instructions lies in the fact that there are almost four hundred million Roman Catholics to whom the Vatican's word is law. Thus it may be said that one-fourth of the population of the world is supporting Japan in the China incident. The Catholic Church has supported us, has urged us to fight for the prevention of Communist penetration in Asia."

An official Japanese broadcast, January 9, 1942, and recorded by the United Press, stated: "M. 0. Daugherty,

Irish archbishop for Great Manila, and Bishop Madrigra, papal representative in the Philippines, Thursday pledged full-hearted co-operation with the Japanese forces for the creation of a new order in East Asia." (Published in the Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.)

"A Berlin domestic broadcast recorded tonight by CBS quoted a Manila dispatch as saying the Japanese-sponsored government of the Philippines 'has now been recognized by the Vatican'." (Florida Times Union, January 11, 1944)

Thus the Hierarchy has recognized and supported the conquests of modern dictators, and handed the democracies a slap in the face. Further documentary evidence could be adduced, but the facts are well known without it. Informed persons will recall how Cardinal Innitzer flew the Nazi swastika from his cathedral in Austria to celebrate Hitler's taking over; how Hitler installed a Catholic priest, "Father" Tiso, as head of conquered Slovakia; how Catholic priests followed in the wake of the Nazi legions in Poland and influenced the people to submit to German rule; and how deadly was the Hierarchy "fifth column" in France at the time of that republic's fall! Thereafter the Vichy puppet Petain was put in office and lauded by the Hierarchy as "the good marshal", and Hierarchy anti-Semitic laws were inaugurated. And the same Hierarchy-dictator intrigue greets the eye as it roves over the political scene in Canada, Mexico, Argentina, and other lands in both hemispheres.

But late in 1944, with the tide of battle turned in favor of the Allies, the adroit Vatican began to weigh the desirability of changing political horses. Then it was that one of her cardinals did an about-face on "good marshal" Petain, calling him a man "devoid of all moral and religious convictions". Though this trick-rider organization may successfully shift from the totalitarian mount to the "democratic" peace beast, she will never be able to slip from that creature and hoist herself up behind Christ Jesus on his righteous war mount when he comes against this wicked, religionized

world at Armageddon. By then she will have taken her last ride.