Excerpt From the Papal Encyclical: "Mit Brennender Sorge" on March 14, 1937,
Appendix II, p. 524 of "The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the Third Reich", published by Burns, Oates and Washbourne, Ltd., London, 1942.
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"It discloses intrigues which from the beginning had no other aim than a war of extermination. In the furrows in which We had laboured to sow the seeds of true peace, others—like the enemy in Holy Scripture (Matt. xiii. 25)—sowed the tares of suspicion, discord, hatred, calumny, of secret and open fundamental hostility to Christ and His Church, fed from a thousand different sources and making use of every available means. On them and on them alone and on their silent and vocal protectors rests the responsibility that now on the horizon of Germany there is to be seen not the rainbow of peace but the threatening storm-clouds of destructive religious wars"
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"Anyone who has any sense of truth left in his mind and even a shadow of the feeling of justice left in his heart will have to admit that, in the difficult and eventful years which followed the Concordat, every word and every action of Ours was ruled by loyalty to the terms of the agreement; but also he will have to recognize with' surprise and deep disgust that the unwritten law of the other party has been arbitrary misinterpretation of agreements, evasion of agreements, evacuation of the meaning of agreements, and finally more or less open violation of agreements".
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Extracts from an encyclical, on religious conflict in Germany and the German government's violations of the 1933 Concordat with the Vatican
Authors
Pius XI (Pope (Achille Ratti))
Pius XI
pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939
- Born: 1857-05-31 (Desio) (country: Austria-Hungary; located in the administrative territorial entity: Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia)
- Died: 1939-02-10 (Vatican City)
- Country of citizenship: Kingdom of Italy (period: 1861-03-17 through 1939-02-10)
- Occupation: Latin Catholic priest (since: 1879-12-20); librarian; mountaineer
- Participant in: 1922 papal conclave
- Position held: Apostolic Nuncio to Poland (of: Poland; since: 1919-06-06); Catholic bishop (since: 1919-10-28); Metropolitan Archbishop of Milan (diocese: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan; period: 1921-06-13 through 1922-02-06; replaced by: Eugenio Tosi); cardinal (since: 1921-06-13)
- Educated at: Pontifical Gregorian University; Sapienza University of Rome
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/88598915
Date: 14 March 1937
Literal Title: Excerpt of the Papal Encyclical: "Mit Brennender Sorge" [With Burning Concern] on March 14, 1937 . . . [in] "The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the Third Reich"
Total Pages: 2
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-3280
Citation: IMT (page 2251)
HLSL Item No.: 450478
Notes:The encyclical was issued on 14 March 1937; the book on persecution was published in London in 1942. The first page has one paragraph; the second page repeats the first paragraph and adds a second. For the Concordat, see document PS 3280A.