Now, in The New York Times...
A secularist group’s
New York Times ad, which announces that “It’s Time to Quit the
Catholic Church”, ran on March 9 and billed itself as an “open
letter to ‘liberal’ and ‘nominal’ Catholics.”
“Will it be
reproductive freedom, or back to the Dark Ages?” it asks. “Do you
choose women and their rights, or Bishops and their wrongs? Whose
side are you on?” The ad claims that the church is “an avowedly
antidemocratic Old Boys club” and derides Catholic teaching that
contraception use is sinful. It also blames the Church for causing
misery, poverty, unwanted pregnancies and deaths and attacks
Catholic teaching on the ordination of women, parochial schools, and
the Church’s response to sex abuse.
Then, in the Nazi Press...
Even before he'd become Pope Pius XII, Cardinal Pacelli was vilified
in the Nazi press. Here he's seen consorting with a Jew to undermine
the Third Reich. This appeared in Das
Schwarze Korps on July 22, 1937
This ran in the
same Nazi newspaper, led by the Hitler Youth. The caption reads: "If
also our singing and revelry does not please the prigs and
humbugs..." Notice the Catholic priest being trampled. Another
popular ditty sung by the Hitler Youth and even passed out
officially at the Hochland camp for the Hitler Youth at Lenggries in
1935 went as follows:
Autumn's storm blows o'er the stubble
And rages o'er fallow and mead;
A new thousand years begins for the world,
Oh, Deutschland creative, take heed.
The Pope sits in Rome on his silk-covered throne
And settled on us are his parsons.
And what, pray, has any man-jack of us all
To do with the Pope and his parsons?
Our sires were as heretics burnt at the stake
To crown the Church mil'tant with glory
The same Nazi newspaper published this anti-Catholic
cartoon of a serpent priest in its Dec. 2, 1937 edition. The caption
read: "The Crossed Adder forces its way into all places of
rottenness and decay in the homes of all people and races,
multiplies with extreme rapidity and becomes the terror of the
inhabitants. Nations, unable to defend themselves against its
poison, are doomed to ruin." (Taken from The Persecution of the
Catholic Church in the Third Reich, 1940)
History is repeating itself. God help us all!
...The Remnant Staff |