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War\n\nExploitation of the Religious IssueDuring the Former War  \nA Noteworthy Charge TodayA Probable Table-Turn“Romanism”and Romanism  \n“Hitlerism”and Germany's Case  \nGermany's Industrial Reforms  \nJuly,1942  \n0众0000XX  \n并41tttt自由  \n000自ni0uu(0j(h  \n班1事的的1t4n0  \n4  \nY06000珍00小0①0中80用t七13身  \n0hrh0000030000  \nh1000030  \n级ce※ ※ ※ ※ ※ ※     ※     ※  ※※  ※※※ ※※※※ ※\"※ ※※※※※※※※※ ※※ ※※ ※※※※※※ ※※ ※照※※※※※懒※ ※※ ※※照  ※※※※※ ※※  照   ※  淡  ※照※※※ ※※ ※   ※1SLJUOUI※※※*        米s8uTL IV※※※※※※2JOisY※※ ※※  ※※※OL  ※※※※※ ※※※※  ※ ※  ※※ ※※   ※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※※ ※※※※※※※※※ ※照※※照※※※※※  ※※ ※ ※※  ※ ※ ※ ※ ※ ※ ※  \n062t门①41自的41t11手明tt11  \nTHE GUILDSMAN  \nPublished Monthly,About the 15th,at Germantown,IllinoisEdward A.Koch.Editor and PublisherSubscription:$1.50 the Year,in Advance.Single Copy,15c  \n\n| Vol.X   | July,1942   | No.10   |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n# Religious Propaganda and the War\n\nCertain British enthusiasts have re-reports of propagandists reliable guidescently offered to keep our Catholic hier-in judging the issue.All such religiousarchy informed,as far as possible,on propaganda,in fact,involves the causecase s of“brutal treatment of priests”onof religion as gravely as the evils it pre-the part of Nazis.This offer is inter-tends to remedy.The religious phariseeesting in this that it provides evidencewill delight in the stories about Nazithat Germany's enemies are seizing,nonewickedness.The true Christian does not.too scrupulously,upon the religious situ-The faithful,watchful shepherd will dis-ation in Germany for the purpose of cre-cern the wolf.ating anti-German sentiment,in otherwords,that the religious issue is beingexploited for war purposes—apparentlyPropaganda of the kind here referredthey have been doing so these past years.to has been in evidence so abundantlyThis offer,secondly,is characteristic ofthat an extensive survey or citation ofmuch of the past reporting on (hat situ-instances will not be required,albeitation,inasmuch as only bare facts,per-that inany will not have recognized itshapseven distorted orexaggerated facts,objectionable features.A recent edito-are reported without the least disclosurerial in an official diocesan publicationof circumstances and factors which needmay serveto illustrate the pointsat issue.to be known for a proper appraisal.ToThe editorial reads:“Recently even thebe informed,fully and impartially,onsecular press has given unwonted prom-what is going on in Germany in that re-inence to the repeated efforts of the Ger-gard,is good and well.But to be in-man Hierarchy to check the fearful Naziformed thereon in a propagandist man-oppression of the Church.With diabolicalner by Germany's enemies,for the pri-determination the Hitler regime hasmary purpose of infiuencing sentimentcontinued its avowed program that aimsagainst the other party to the war,is aat the very destruction of Christianity.different matter.Every true Christian isChurches razed and plundered;convents,interested in the freedom and welfareschools and seminaries are confiscated;of religion.But this does not mean thatpriests,sisters and brothers killed or im-such freedom and welfare should beprisoned;devout laymen defamed andmade dependent cn the fortunes of theshamefully mistreated;the tide of terror-British Empire,nor that victory for theism has swept over the victimizedallegedly hostile side should be regardedpeople.Man has been debased;theas the inevitable doom of the cause ofChurch has been throttled;God has beenreligion.The centuries of Church historydefied in Nazi-occupied territories.Butdo not justify either of these conclusions;not without protest.Time and again thenor do they justify the basic assumptiondauntless German bishops have raisedthat the Nazis brought on and aretheir voices in unmistakable condem-wholly responsible for the situation innation of the outrages perpetrated.NowGermany.Improvement—andthatshouldsingly,then in joint pastoral to a per-be the object—can evidently not be 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