Consolation, March 1, 1944

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Contents

The Fruit of Hitler’s Concordat

Consequences of Ten Years’ Operation 3

The Smoke-Screen of Press Collaboration

And from Germany, via Spain, Would Beleh the Propaganda of Domination!

"Thy Word Is Truth”

Ordination-—True and False

"Laying On of Hands”

The Truth Hurts—After Ten Years

Back to Religion in Chicago

The Passing of the Devil

Defeat of Persecution in West Africa

Jehovah’s witnesses in Mexico

Irenaeus of Lyon

The Millennial Kingdom ("Chiliasm”)

Presenting "Tips Gospel of the Kingdom”

Why Arguments Arise

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The Pope Is Pro-Fascist

♦ The Roman Catholic Hierarchy is always for the aristocracy, always for the high and mighty, and always against the common people. It desires the restoration of Catholic monarchies, whenever such is possible, and the destruction ' of every republic.

It is interesting that just at this time the efforts of the controlled American press to put a halo on the Papacy are being upset. And the ones that are doing the upsetting are the ones that are pushing Hitler out of Russia, and so upsetting the plans exposed in the leading article in this issue of this magazine.

On February 1, the Russian government’s newspaper Izvestia- asserted that the pope’s foreign policy had “earned the hatred and contempt of the Italian masses for supporting Fascism”; that “the disgraceful role the Vatican played in Hitler’s and Mussolini’s Spanish adventure is widely known”; that it was also known that Franco’s Spain was the “image of the clerical states of post-war Europe” which the Vatican would like to see emerge from the present world war. It mentioned also that the Vatican was silent when Italy launched its “stab in the back” attack on France in June, 1940, and remarked on the fact that the Vatican was one of the first to recognize the Petain humbug regime at Vichy. It wound up by drawing attention to the hypocrisy of the present pope in his Christmas declaration of “impartial love of all peoples”, which impartial love supported the Fascist states and sanctioned the destruction of other states.

This blast caught the New York Times. It had a column and a half trying to pin down the pope’s skirts, but all to no avail. It quoted Sheen, O’Hara and Curley that the “Holy Father” was down on Nazism and Fascism, but they could not quote one word he had ever said against either; nor can anybody else.

CONSOLATION

“And in His name shall the nations hope.”—Matthew 12:21, A.R.V.

Volume XXV Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, March 1, 19+4 Number 638

The Fruit of Hitler’s Concordat

Consequences of Ten Years’ Operation, 1933-1943 (Concluded from last issue

Hitler and the pope were on the inarch!

An emboldened Hitler next took Austria. By 1933 the Roman Clericals (the Austrian party devoted to discord and operated by a contingent of the pope’s spy army and confessional priests) had delivered up the country to their liege lord at Vatican City, according to the Catholic authority C. F. Melville: “Above all, the Austrian Corporative State will be integrally and essentially a 'Catholic State’.”

After Schuschnigg, who had followed Bollfuss, was reviled by Hitler, who had invited him to Berchtesgaden through the offices of Catholic von Papen, Hitler’s army moved into Austria. “Hitler’s troops entered Vienna to the pealing of the church bells.” An interesting little item of this occupation was that Hitler placed much confidence in the Austrian Quisling-Catholic, Dr. Seyss-Inquart, the traitor who took charge of vanquished Holland, at its surrender to his confrere-religionist, Hitler (1.940).

The Austrian Anschluss (“adherence”, i. e., to Germany) was complete. That he was counting heavily upon the concordat at the time seems well borne out by the statement on good authority that when the German army moved into Austria they had a gasoline supply sufficient for a campaign of but ten days! Yet the trick was turned with Papal aid, and a stronger Germany emerged. The bluff was repeated at Munich, where England’s Chamberlain played the appease-

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ment role. Next in line was Czechoslovakia, whose western end, the Sudeten, was ceded to Hitler by the Four Power Accord (the Munich Pact) in September, 1938.

The Nazi technique had been achieved and perfected by internal dissension provoked by priests. Czechoslovakia, which runs like a finger between Poland and Austria-Hungary and pokes into east Germany, the creation of the Versailles architects, contained a small portion of old Germany, Sudeten, a semicircle around the ancient provinces of Moravia and Bohemia, in the center, and the backward and Catholic province of Slovakia on the east. The center provinces, especially Bohemia, were largely non-religious or Protestant, and had been the home of the martyred John Huss. Rome, therefore, wanted to destroy the country, and Germany wished to clear the road to the Ukraine, and approach closer to the Rumanian oil fields. The Vatican, therefore, ordered the Slovakians to how] for separation from the Czechs, just as the Sudeten Germany had cried for Hitler’s intervention. “Separatist movements among the Slovaks and Ruthenians were openly encouraged.” “During February 1.939, Nazi-inspired separatist agitation in autonomous Slovakia and the Carpatho-Ukraine reached alarming proportions under the leadership respectively of Dr. Josef Tiso [a corrupt libertine] and Father Revay, both Catholic clergymen admittedly pro-Nazi.” Because of his

seditious activities President Hacha dissolved the Slovakian cabinet, Tiso fled to Germany, and, just as the Austrian traitor Seyss-Inquart had done, invited Hitler to take over. The Nazi chief reciprocated by making Tiso (now dead) the premier, and later dictator. “Tiso, it will be recalled, is a Roman Catholic priest in good standing, who, after his pro-Hitler activities proved successful, was honored by the Vatican by being made a papal chamberlain.” (The Converted Catholic Magazine,February, 1943) Some may find it a strange coincidence that this very same month, March, Cardinal Pacelli became Pope Pius XII. . _ ,

At this time Pacelli and Hitler began to pat each other on the back and congratulate themselves at the easy manner in which they had duped the democracies, and bluffed their way to victory over about 28,000,000 people. They were now in position to put the squeeze on Hungary, Rumania, and especially Poland. East Prussia, Slovakia and Germany made a semicircle around Poland, v’ith Russia on the eastern end. Poland, whose national reputation had many blemishes anyway, was made the victim of the Nazi-Jesuit technique by stories of “oppression” of German, nationals within her borders. Then followed the punishment, and Germany, after cleverly spiking Soviet guns by giving Russia spoils which she intended to retake, smashed Poland. At dawn of September 1, 1939, the German armies crossed the Polish border, and, with the help of Pacelli’s priesthood, rapidly subdued Poland.

Henceforth the dictator and the pope found it easier to spill blood than to bluff. England and France declared war in September. Albania had a few months earlier (April, 1939) been attacked by Italy; in November, 1939, the Russo-Finnish war began; and while the Anglo-French were watching their enemies across the Maginot-Siegfried (West Wall) line, on the dawn of April 9, the German forces closed in upon Norway and Denmark, and another Catholic and puppet, Vidkun Quisling, native traitor, was harnessed with that monster of cruelty, Reichskommissar Josef Terbo-ven, bringing untold terrors to the land of the Vikings. Among the acts of Catholic Terboven has been the refusal of paper to the Norwegian Bible Society.

The world is generally familiar with the destruction of the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, which were victims of the Nazi blitzkrieg of May and June, 1940. The campaign lasted only six weeks, during which the British were forced to evacuate a trapped French-British army of 335,000 men at Dunkirk; and Italy had been called in for the “easy kill”. , ,

■ Long before this humiliating defeat France had been betrayed to Papal greed for world domination. Catholicism had caused a rift, an open wound in the side of the republic since the days of Dreyfus, the Jewish officer who was sacrificed to Catholic intrigue, and finally acquitted of the treason actually committed by Catholic Esterhazy. Said the New York Times of French conditions then and now: “The clerical party was also the Royalist party, and for the most part those who supported the claim of the Church were also advocating the overthrow of the government.1’ Three men, sail Catholics, maneuvered the peace with Germany in June, 1940: Marshal Petain, wThom the pope, rejoicing over France’s overthrow, promptly dubbed “good Marshal Petain”, Wey-gand, and none other than arehtraitor and pious Catholic Pierre Laval. France could have fought on from Africa, and with her desert army and excellent navy intact might now have regained French soil. But the Catholics had determined upon a sellout. Pacelli had ordered capitulation, even as he had commanded it of Catholic Leopold, Belgian king, who surrendered without consulting his French and English allies. The incalculable advantages of the concordat to the Nazis can be seen at every turn in European polities thenceforth.

Throughout the destruction of France, Pierre Laval, to this day in authority, was one of the chief tools of the Nazi-Papal conspirators. Says McCabe: "Laval is, after the Nazi'leaders, the most loathed and loathsome man in Europe.” According to the same authority, which is also admitted by Collier's, he is a Catholic, and, in 1935, was the first French.cabinet officer in 70 years to visit the . pope and kneel for his blessing. He received the honorary Papal insignia of

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Order of Pius IX trance (received also by Japanese Matsuoka); while his. daughter, like Mussolini’s, received the special

Papal gift to ladies, a gold and coral rosary.

Led by Laval, a fifth column of Catholic structure, so easily formed by an organization with an army of unsuspected spies in the robes of religionists, had disintegrated France. Certain German paratroops were said to wear the garb of priests and nuns. Fifth columnists found the clerical garb their favorite costume; while clerics found the fifth column their favorite practice. They caused much devastation in Holland, holding open key bridges and capturing airports. Many of the French armed forces, falling back in retreat, expected to occupy pill-box defenses, only to find such locked and the keys thrown away. The French people know they were betrayed, and this adds unfathomed bitterness to the mourning for their millions of dead. When the Catholic Church has to reckon with the legions of her victims it will be a time dark with vengeance and flowing with gore !

, The year 1940 was really the high-water mark for the Papal military machine. Many will remember that Catholic priest O'Brien said that the Catholics "were ready prepared for 1940”, with the view of taking over America. “Catholic-Fascists in Canada, led by Adrien Arcand and directed from the Vatican, intended to seize the Canadian

government in 1940.” (Conspiracy

Against Democracy, pages 16-19)

The Catholic priest Curran, editor of

The Tablet (Catholic), published at Brooklyn, N. Y., is an ardent supporter of the so-called "Christian Front”. In his support of lawbreakers he recently said: “It is about time we took over the newspapers of this country.” Many of the' big newspapers today fear to publish the truth about Catholic Action because of the boycott methods constantly practiced by the Hierarchy. The effort of the Hierarchy did not quite succeed in 1940, but graves and burial trenches in many lands testified to the savagery of the attempt. Nor has she ceased to try. She possessed other weapons now discussed under

The Smoke-Screeitof Press Collaboration

In another way she lent her aid to the Nazi partner, a field in which misinterpreting the Bible and a course of deception required to cover up her crimes had made her adept. The field of endeavor of which she was past master was the field of propaganda. Her armies could not easily get to America, so her fifthcolumn priesthood and controlled presses must flood those countries with deadly propaganda. How the American presses have been hoodwinked, bludgeoned and silenced by the Roman Catholic Church in a country which has nothing to fear from Papal disapproval is one of the outstanding disgraces of this decade. It is also proof that the power of Rome is not based upon the little fortress of Vatican City, but on the superstitious fear thrust into the minds of subjects throughout the world. America is seen to be in the clutches of the Vatican autocracy, even as revealed by ex-Jesuit E. Boyd Barrett’s book Rome Stoops to Conquer.

^Because of that censorship it is likely that few readers have ever seen any of the information quoted herein, usually obscured even if published by a newspaper. Censorship is responsible for belief in such myths as the theme embroidered by Archbishop Spellman, and published in Collier's, that Franco is a “very sincere, serious and intelligent man”, and such lies as “explanation” that the Spanish Rebellion was fought by Communists (Loyalists) against pious Catholics; that the pope is concerned with nothing but peace; that the Roman Catholic Churchisfightingbitterly against Hitler (suggested by both Spellman and the N.C.W.C., and generally believed); that the Catholic Church is backing up the United Nations war effort; that the Roman Church does not meddle in temporal affairs (a thing which it does nothing else but); that although it may make mistakes it is generally on the side of right (while, on the contrary, it is vicious to the core, . and what may appear as redeeming features are mere snares for the unwary) ; that it has the sole right to represent God and interpret the Bible (which claim is a blasphemous falsehood) ; and 'any other statements made in its favor. In the adulation campaign for Rome, the American press generally has been the foremost hireling. '

The Catholic Church and all its pronouncements are considered inviolable, the “sacred vow” of journalism. No effort is ever made to point out inconsistencies, or sift the true from the false for the reader’s benefit. This duty of interpreting naturally devolves upon editors and editorial staff writers; for reporters have neither the commission nor the time for calm meditation and study required. It is therefore upon most American editors, with some notable exceptions such as the editor of the Baltimore Sun, that the gravest indictment falls.

Assuming that no information useful to the enemy has slipped through proper censorship, there is no American reason why editors should hide any facts. As an example of what might be disclosed by alert editorship the following (in a syndicated column published July 30, 1943, in a number of newspapers) is cited:

Archbishop Spellman was secretary to the pope when, as Cardinal Pacelli, the pope was Vatican secretary of state, and he remains one of Pope Pius XII’s most trusted confidants. All during the war, and until the New York archbishop left the United States, the two conferred regularly by transatlantic telephone at 1 p. m. on Wednesdays. These phone calls, never before publicized, are one of the anomalies of the war. Although this meant a telephonic hookup of two enemy countries, connections were made promptly and the conversations never censored or garbled—at least from our side.

The reader may now draw his own conclusions from a dispatch* of sixteen months earlier:

March 8. Archbishop Francis J. Spellman celebrated Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York city. Roman Catholic reports say 2,600 men employed in the telephone and communications systems received the Roman communion at the Mass. [The Monitor, April 18, 1942]

A few editors have now waked up to what was done by the American press, particularly from 1936-1939", and this at the instance of the Hierarchy, to distort and falsify the real issues causing the Spanish Rebellion. That the Hierarchy has not given up the effort to glorify that unspeakable butcher, Franco, observe Spellman’s praise during his recent visit. Spain is now a country in national mourning. The flower of its citizenry are tortured in Fascist jails,

or the more fortunate have found surcease in death. Spellman’s recommendation for Franco can do the people little more harm, because the fiery lies of five or six years ago already have sealed the country’s doom, .

But it is a little more than a red-blooded American can stand to be told that when he listened to the Hierarchy’s lies, sponsored by the press, and withheld all aid to the republic, callously watching the massacre of a free people, he served a good cause! That is just the tenor of the letters of the archbishop, and what our ambassador Hayes reiterates. “Franco is a very sincere, serious and intelligent man. He smiled . . . ” (at Spellman)'from behind a picture of Hitler. To this article Alexander H. Uhl, eyewitness during the siege of Madrid, wrote for PM a calm but indignant reply, in which he stated:

The Franco revolution was the revolution of Spain’s landed proprietors, of Spain’s reactionary clergy, of Spain’s monarehial aristocracy and industrialists against the rising tide of democracy that had been rolling up each day stronger and stronger since World War I. [PV, October 11 and 14, 1943]

To this even the Catholic writers Lawrence Fernsworth and Bernano, reporting from the Spanish battlefields, agree. Englishman Gedye and Dutchman Van Paassen (Days of' Our Years) also corroborate. Proving that the Hierarchy still is backing Franco, Priest Curran, editor of the Brooklyn Tablet, denounced PM’s mild article by Uhl as a “vicious attack upon Archbishop Spellman”. There is no other fanatic so fanatical as the religious fanatic.

A few other weapons of propaganda employed by the Hierarchy, and published by the press without demanding advertisement rates, are the Papal bugle cry against Communism, now slightly fainter, the interminable “church pageants”, festivals, functions, and eucharistic congresses, the pope’s enormous interest in and constant prayers for peace, and similar propaganda.

At this point it seems appropriate to consider the really high-voltage falsehood pandered without apology by a large section of the press: the asserted rift between the two leaders, whose actions have been followed herein, namely, Hitler and Pope Pius XII, Some editors accept such supposed struggle as an established fact, as the editorial writer of the Pittsburgh Press (September 24, 1942) who writes: “Because Hitler is the enemy of the Church on the one hand, and of political democracy on the other, it is to the mutual advantage of the pope and the president [Roosevelt] to work together now.” -Drew Pearson states: “Archbishop Spellman told friends that [the pope] manifested his contempt for Hitler and Mussolini in subtle ways.” Others laud Pacelli as the qualified peace mentor, who is as fitted for the work as- “the key to the lock”. .

It has been left to the National Catholic Welfare Conference to lay the important smoke-screen around the Nazi-Papal conspiracy, through its publication The Nasi War Against the Catholic Church. Page 17 of this 144-page booklet was quoted previously to prove, by their own admission, that a concordat was signed between Hitler and the pope.' The publication has no pictures but the organization enlisted the service of Look magazine to embellish the theme with a good many photographs. (Issues of December 29, 1942, and January 12, 1943) Both articles in Look are admittedly based upon the N.C.W.C. publication. “Reports of Nazi persecution of the Roman Catholic Church” is a common subject in American publications and much purported “proof” is adduced. It is nonetheless propaganda and on a par with branding the Spanish Loyalists as all Communists.

One point, however, does require some clarification: the distinction between persecution of Catholics because of their

religion and prosecution of Catholies for espionage and other crimes. Tn many countries throughout the world priests and other Catholics have been rightfully prosecuted under the law because of felonious activities. Consolation has in the past remarked many instances where priests have been apprehended for spy ‘ activities in the Philippines, in the

United States, in Canada, in England, Brazil, Cuba, and elsewhere.

Another case in point is the execution of Polish priests in Russia, when caught attempting to overthrow the government. Some priests were killed in Spain during v the rebellion for similar reasons.

An instance of this sort also was the sensational trials (1936) of some two hundred Franciscan monks (276 were' arrested) from Westphalia, particularly from the large monastery of Waldbreitbach, on charges of sodomy and seduc-' tion of feeble-minded girls. Waldbreitbach “was judicially proved to be a worse nest of corruption than is described in any medieval document”.

Catholic papers fully endorsed the trials and the verdiets, and Germans in England, who had relatives and friends in the Catholic region and went to see them, told me that none of them questioned the guilt of the monks. In fine, the pope suppressed the Westphalian province of the friars, one of the largest branches of the Franciscan Order, for irregularities after about ten trials had been published. The details were appalling. Priests had systematically corrupted penitents in the. confessional or used high positions in the church to corrupt boys. Friars had pleaded in excuse that on the leading feast days of the Church they had such orgies of drink . . . It is enough that all Germany read these infamies in the dailies and weeklies—a priest in Munich was arrested, at the complaint of Catholic parents, for discussing them in the confessional with girls of twelve and thirteen —and secessions from the [Catholic} Church multiplied. [The Papacy in Politics Today]

The same author relates that as a result the Catholic school attendance in Munich alone fell from 36,404 to 19,266 in 1936. Also at this time the Nazis took over some of these charity institutions and even Catholics agreed that such corrupt guardians must be removed. However, it is reliably reported in other sources that Hitler himself stopped the trials against the monks.

In democratic lands such action on the part of the German government, and this w’ithout explaining the provocation, are brought to attention to bolster the claim of “Catholic Church persecution by the Nazis”. No doubt the pope does consider the prosecution of the monks an act of persecution, because the Boman Church demands the sole right to deal with its prelates. (See Canon Law.) But the classification of punishment for such legal offenses as “religious persecution” in reality reveals the Hierarchy’s tacit approval of crime.

Obviously the conviction of a pervert or the execution of a spy or murderer is not “religious persecution” unless the right to commit perversion, treachery and murder are among the approved tenets of the criminal’s religion. If the Hierarchy persists in classing such statutory prosecution of the Catholic guilty as “religious persecution”, then the crimes committed must be conceded as accepted practice of the Roman Catholic religion. In other words, if governmental prosecution of heinous offenders who happen to be members of the Boman Catholic Church is regarded as “persecution”, then by the same reasoning it appears at once that the Hierarchy approves such deeds. Their practice in such cases is instanced by the harboring of John Surratt among the Papal Zouaves, whose mother Mary was executed for conspiracy in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and, after implicated, John, through the aid of priests in Canada, had fled to the Vatican. It thus appears that the news propaganda of the Hierarchy, instead of proving persecution-for-religion’s-sake to the people of logical reasoning, simply testi-

fies further to their guilt. All the evidence in Look magazine and elsewhere, whether distorted as explained above or manufactured, can be brushed aside as smoke-screen propaganda to save the face of the Vatican that is so heavily involved with Hitler. Further proving this point, note the declaration of German bishops after Hitler's triumphs above described: “Berlin, June 6, 1940. Special meetings of the Roman Catholic bishops throughout Germany have resulted in a decision to hold thanksgiving masses for the German victory in Belgium and Flanders, it was reported today.” {Conspiracy Against Democracy, page 19) ■

Three other items must be included in this discussion of Hierarchy-press collaboration in the Americas: (1) the decoration of American bishops and cardinals by dictators Mussolini and Franco in reward for their fulsome praise of such gangsters; (2) the Central American and South American propaganda, manufactured in Berlin, urging the return of those countries to Spanish rule, a role prearranged for Spain; and (3) the unanimous pro-Nazi thunderings, given press publicity, of American ambassadors and statesmen of the Catholic faith.

The award of medals to bishops and priests (1) by the dictators, it should be observed, was not limited to those of the United States, but is noted first, as highly significant of the great power of the Roman Church for Fascism in America. A very moving book, What to Do with Italy, written by two antiFascist Italian scholars, Professor Gaetano' Salvemini, exile for freedom’s sake, and George La Piana, professor of church history at Harvard, is highly recommended reading on the part the Roman Church played in saddling the Italian people with Fascism. Under the subhead “The Voice of America”, page 61 on, they recount the terrible effectiveness of the campaign launched in the United States by financiers, such as Otto

Kahn, and cardinals and archbishops of the Roman Catholic Church.

The eminent Salvemini, in a previous publication, had listed seven cardinal archbishops, 23 archbishops, 44 bishops of the Italian hierarchy, in addition to the pope, who supported Fascism and the Ethiopian War. (No Friend of Democracy, p. 16) Such propaganda, he shows, was taken up by the American hierarchy. Said Cardinal O’Connell, of Boston: “Italy was in process of undergoing a marvelous transformation since Benito Mussolini had seized the reins of government. . . . I see perfect order, cleanliness, work, industrial development.” (What to Do with Italy, p. 68) He received a high Fascist decoration.

Cardinal Dougherty, of Philadelphia, spoke “exalting religion and Fascist Italy”, and applauded a priest who referred to “the admirable work of the Duce and the Fascist government”. “Cardinal Hayes of New York [deceased] was the special object of Mussolini’s affection, since the Duce four times presented his eminence with decorations, each higher than the one preceding, all of which the cardinal accepted with high praise for the Duce.” (P. 69)

He sums up the work of Rome’s American representatives as follows:

We need not’descend to mere archbishops and bishops, many of whom received, at one time Or another, decorations from the Fascist government as a sign of appreciation for their co-operation in creating a halo of greatness and almost of holiness around the head of the Duce and for their fostering among American Catholics and non-Catholics the cause of Italian Fascism. [P. 69]

Other Americans of Catholic leanings joined the adulators of Mussolini, who are castigated by the rapier thrust:

When, as here, ignorance, stupidity, and insincerity reach the sublime, they should, and do, command our admiration. [P. 75]

Decorations from “Father” Franco were also generously sprinkled about in America. The reasons for this have been

discussed previously. That the “Church” still reveres Franco is apparent from the letters of Archbishop Spellman, published in Collier's. As to Hitler, the Hierarchy, except Coughlin and 'Curran, who have boldly championed him, and this at Rome’s secret direction, has been * more cautious. But praise for Hitler’s allies Franco, Mussolini, and Salazar, Catholic dictator of Portugal, reveals their real position.

Turning now to 'South American and Central American co-ordination (2), it is not amiss to open .with a newscast (Overseas News Agency, January 4, । 1943):

Prelates of the Catholic church in Argen-' tina have just been honored by an order in Spain, emphasizing the role of the, clergy in Spain’s efforts to recover its influence in Latin America under the sign of the Hispanidad. Cardinal Copello, archbishop of Buenos Aires, who is head of the Argentine hierarchy, was made a 'Preferred Dignitary’ by the Brotherhood of the Sagrado Femur of Santiago de Compostela of Spain [Brotherhood of the Holy Thigh of James of Compostella], while all other Argentine archbishops and bishops were made “Honorary Dignitaries”. In the German-speaking regions of Argentina, the priesthood has in many cases used the pulpit to preach Nazism.

Mark now the facts that none other than Eugenio Pacelli made a trip to Latin America in 1934, and to North America and South America in 1936. Time magazine reported the latter trip, which included a visit to Hyde Park, N. Y. Those who have read the article will not find it strange that Buenos Aires was selected as South American headquarters for the German Gestapo, and that Mexican priests fought an open war for Nazism.

It has been publicly and officially stated many times that a large portion of the Mexican [Catholic] clergy is anti-democratic and pro-totalitarian, and that some members of it have even acted as Axis agents to aid Hitler and Franco in their “spiritual reconquest of Latin America”. [Betty Kirk, Covering the Mexican Front, p. 126]

Condemning press censorship, Migs Kirk adds, “The subject is inflammable because the whole truth is seldom told about it.” [P. 128]

It is not necessary to go into the Roman Catholic Church’s activities in Central America and South America, which indeed form a black chapter in a history of blackness. The general rule there has been that “the power of the Church is in inverse ratio to the spread of education”. Let it be noted here merely that it was because of this great power in the South American countries that the visionary connections with the Spanish monarchists could be exploited by Hitler and Pacelli.

Spain was therefore regarded as a key position both for geography and for propaganda. From Spain could go ships to Africa visible across Gibraltar. From Spain could go planes to Dakar or some other base, to the bulge of South America, where a southern fortress could be built against Panama and the hated United States. In the “Spanish” islands, and in the “Spanish Americas”, bases for submarines could be built and observers stationed. Falange, quoted below, reveals a startling plot:

The Caribbean is one of the graveyards of the United Nations shipping in the Atlantic. Between Miami and Venezuela, the Axis, through the Falanges of Cuba, Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, and the Vichysois of Martinique maintains an almost unbroken chain of observation posts and secret radio stations in constant contact with Nazi submarine and surface raiders. The northern coast of Venezuela is1 infested with hundreds of Falangist agents, many of whom have casually and without ecclesiastical authority [the writer means the Hierarchy has denied giving this authority] donned the robes of priests, whose radio instructions lead Nazi submarines across the paths of United Nations oil tankers. ... At Ten eriffe the fuel carried by these neutral Spanish ships is transferred to the storage tanks of the great submarine base the German navy started to construct in 1937. This Canary ■Islands depot not only fuels Nazi submarines but also transfers vast quantities, of oil to, Italian and German tankers which visit the port regularly. ... A newer German submarine base is serviced by the Spanish tankers which call at Vigo, in Galieia, an important port near the Portuguese border. Vigo is more than a German submarine base, however. It is also the city which harbors the chief southern European' headquarters of German Intelligence. The Nazis maintain naval fueling stations at Ceuta, Melilla, Cadiz, and Tan-giers, as well as emergency air bases for all Axis aircraft. These bases, too, are serviced by the tankers which ply blithely between the Caribbean and Spain. [Pages 207, 248]

And from Germany, via Spain, Would

Belch the Propaganda of Domination !

Religious hatred was fanned. No doubt remains that the opposition to Protestant missionaries was considered an adjunct to.cutting all ties with the United States. South America was to be divided in opposition to the Monroe Doctrine, both by religious prejudice and by military invasion, from the kindred republic of the north. The mailed fist of Nazism, which is Catholicism, which is Romanism, was for strategic reasons draped in Spanish colors, and taught to gesture in the Spanish language. These trappings were much like the orange juice poured, before taking, upon the heavily sinuous castor oil.

The steps involved are intriguing-ly detailed in Allan Chase’s Falange, The Axis Secret Army in the Americas. Proof that over a million trained enemies, not including priests, of the United States are now actively engaged in undercover warfare in both North America and South America is offered in this sensational book. It contains material from over 2,000 documents from secret Axis strong boxes in the Americas. The book proves that the Falange was the creation of the cabal backing Hitler, among them the I. G. Farben Chemical

Trust Company, Fritz Thyssen, Franz von Papen, the banker Baron von Schroeder, and bitter genius of both military and espionage campaigns, General Wilhelm von Faupel. To him was entrusted Der Auslands Falange.

Von Faupel said in Spanish:

Our movement incarnates a Catholic sense of life—the glorious and predominant tradition of Spain—and shall incorporate it to national reconstruction. The clergy and the state shall work together.

This was made the 25th article of the Falangist program, a set of principles similar to those of the Nazi. Then, according to article 3, Spain was promoted throughout the • world as “the spiritual axle of the Spanish world”.

According to Chase, and this is substantially corroborated by the heavy Papal-Nazi aid to Franco, von Faupel, having planned it in advance that Spain should be an enemy flank to France, and a stepping stone to America, threw the rebellion machinery in motion in the summer of 1936. “Spain,” Goering declared, “is the key to two continents." Again referring to that massacre witnessed by an indifferent world, note Chase’s description:

In vain, day after day, the bleeding Republic appealed to the statesmen of the world for simple, elementary justice—for the mere right to purchase, for gold, arms with which to defend itself. The Republie chose as its earliest battle ery; “Make Madrid the Tomb of Fascism!” But the statesmen of Europe, at that time, were individuals named Chamberlain, Daladier, Blum, Hoare, Laval, Halifax. [P. 23]

It is thus'observed that Germany not only designed the5 Falange, but wrought Fascist Spain with • the German army (Condor Legion). Just how this Falangist propaganda was disseminated is graphically described in connection with its betrayal of the Philippines:

These radio programs were amazing. At the time del Castano arrived in Manila, for example, the Ateneo de Manila, one of the exclusive Spanish private schools, was doing a series on the ideal corporate state of Portugal’s Salazar. This was the familiar clerico-Fascist line of all good Axis propagandists in Catholic countries. Within time, del Castano was to hear programs contrasting the American pioneers and the Spanish conquista-dores so cleverly that the listeners gained the impression that the pioneers Who explored with Boone were drunken desperadoes while the soldiers who pillaged with Pizarro were hymn-singing abstainers. [Falling e, p. 42]

The tie between Germany and Japan is made certain by a number of facts such as the accusation by Gonzalez, governor of Jalisco, Mexico:

“Some of the clergy are making an absurd and ridiculous campaign from the pulpit against the organization of our national defense. We must erase from the conscience of many people their belief in the false doctrines that are being preached to them that Mexico should be allied with Germany and Japan, '’because they are the defenders of religion in the world’.” [Covering the Mexican Front, p. 126j

Both Allan Chase and Miss Kirk disclose that the Mexican Sinarquist movement is of German-Papal origin.

The above gives an inkling to abundant proof that Japan is also in Papal employ. Previous issues of Consolation reveal priests arrested for espionage in the Philippines. A few other facts briefly sketched: . .

Japanese make good Catholics. [Catholic Missions, November 1939]

The Catholic bishop of Manila and the Papal representative in the Philippines had joined in co-operation with the Japanese for creation of the “New Order” in Asia, and had urged island Catholics to do likewise. [New York Times, February 4, 1942] ’

For the firsttime since diplomatic relations were established between Japan and the Vatican [which occurred after Pearl Harbor], the correspondent of the Tokyo newspaper Nichi -Nichi was received in audience by Pope Pius XII, it was announced today. [Oregon Journal, August 3, 1942] .

“Japan Strikes at Freemasonry,” [item from Masonic Journal, November 2, 1943, divulging Jesuit pattern]; “Vatican City-Tokyo Radio Link Revealed” [AP Dispatch of August 23, 1943]-, “The Japanese . . . were very solicitous about the Roman Catholic Church. On the first Sunday after landing in Manila, Japanese soldiers marched to Mass, filling all the churches and chapels.” [The Reader's Digest resume of The Nation article, “The Philippines Under the Japanese Bbot Heel,” September 1943]

- In view of this preponderance of evidence our readers will be able to detect the Jesuit effrontery of [Catholic] “Bishop Quinn, Eyewitness, Reveals Jap Atrocities Hit New Low After Raid”. (Los Angeles Examiner, October 24, 1943) The dirt is harder to locate when the dust is stirred!

Most recent newscast bombshell, whose explosion was muffled by an obsequious ' press who subdued it in an inconspicuous corner of their papers, if published at all, exposing the clandestine love between the pious pope and his political paramour, sneak-attacking Japan, came over the wires of the Associated Press January 10, 1944. It should convince the most obstinate hold-out of the Vatican’s complicity with the Axis. The Florida Times-Union, January 11, 1944, carried the scanty dispatch, as follows:

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”. It did not elaborate.

Thus Japanese-aggression conquests receive the Papal stamp of approval, and the excluded United-States gets a ,slap in the face. ’ ■

Parenthetically it is here observed that also among the category of Hitler sympathizers can be listed those Catholic saboteurs of United Nations war effort, Ireland (Southern) and the Canadian province of Quebec. A British officer reported to the writer that RAF fliers had been: stoned in Quebec, “because they

bombed Rome.” As to Ireland, Cardinal MacRory, Roman Catholic archbishop of Armagh, protested violently because the country was “overrun by British and United States soldiers against the will of the nation”. The year following he visualized great danger to the pope during the British-American invasion, ‘Only heaven knows what dangers of possible disaster await Pope Pius XII,’ said MacRory, ‘whose country is now overrun by strangers.’ (Buffalo Courier Journal, October 13, T943) From this and the armed protection given him by the Nazis it does not appear that the pope welcomes any liberation from Nazi-Fascism. •

Countries throughout the globe thus suffer the effects of the Nazi virus. Conceived in Rome, cultured in the laboratories of Germany, it is spread by the combined organizations of Hitler and Pope Pius XII, agreeable to the binding concordat of 1933. An article of limited length can barely plow the surface of the vast field of evidence. Many of the books opening up this international intrigue have, although fully documented, the faseinatlbn of mystery novels. The authorities listed “here will be of great interest to those wishing further details. Consideration is now given to point (3), the parallel activities of Catholic ambassadors and diplomats.

It will, no doubt, come as a surprise for many to learn that the following American ambassadors to foreign countries are Catholics: William Donovan, “roving ambassador” in southeastern Europe (later made head of Office of Strategic Service); Admiral Leahy, ambassador to Vichy, France; Carleton J. Hayes, ambassador to Franco-Spain; Patrick J. Hurley, diplomatic representative to New Zealand and the whole Southwest Pacific area; Robert Murphy, minister to North Africa; Jefferson Caffrey, ambassador to Brazil, described by the Catholic Press as “a classical type of American Catholic”. -

The work of some of these men is an open scandal, and that Of the others may be guessed. Ambassador Hayes in Spain is supplying what little is necessary to be added in friendly words to the United States’ $100,000,000 loan to appease Franco. Franco has accepted this donation with a smile and continues to do a whopping business with Germany. Caffrey is pictured in close conversation with Archbishop Antonio Cabral, who is telling him, according to the caption, “Protestant propaganda arouses antipathy and resentment against the United States of America.” (The Converted Catholic Magazine. March, 1943)

Since his appointment as minister to North Africa, Jesuit-trained Robert Murphy, educated at Marquette and Georgetown’s Foreign Service School, has been a close collaborator with French Fascists, Marcel Peyrouton, Lemaigfe-Dubreuil, and the Fascist generals, such as Giraud. Supposedly democratic, Giraud has disfranchised Jews, declared Nazism good, is Catholic, was entertained by Georgetown University. In view of these facts, “Giraud’s brilliant escape from a Nazi prison” was probably maneuvered by the Hierarchy, with German connivance. The deplorable conditions thus brought about by the Hierarchy in North Africa by the ministrations of Murphy are protested by radio commentator Johannes Steel:

Hundreds of Vichy sympathizers, appointees of the Berlin-eontrolled Viehy government, remain in charge of civil administration in the French colonial empire. Hundreds of Nazi agents, arrested in the first days of the American landing, have since been turned over to these Fascist Frenchmen for civil investigation and prosecution. Instead of prosecuting these Nazi agents, the French are only keeping them under observation. . . . Thousands of political refugees, sworn and tested enemies of the Nazis, are still in prisons and concentration camps, more than two months after the landing of the Allied army of “liberation”.

Some authorities suspect a similar sell-out in Italy, with "ace compromiser Adolph A. Berle”, Catholic-minded, maneuvering relations. The “National Whirligig” syndicated article discusses this possibility under the subhead “Bribe”, in which is revealed that the state department, in August, refusing to “co-operate with such recognized liberals as Count Carlo Sforza, former Rome foreign minister”, has been dickering with the discredited King Victor Emmanuel, Count Ciano (Mussolini’s son-in-law, recently executed), and Emmanuel’s new foreign minister, Baron Raffaele Guariglia, former crony of traitor Pierre Laval.

It would seem that America would no longer resort to Catholic diplomats since Joseph P. Kennedy, former ambassador to England, was virtually invited to depart because of his pro-Nazi sentiments, and who stated while still in London: “I can’t make head or tail of what this war’s all about. If you can find out why the British are standing up against the Nazis, you are a better man than I am.” (PM) Then there was ambassador John Cudahy, who went to Berlin, thence to Vatican City, after the Belgian king’s surrender, and who paid a later visit to Hitler, and was described by PM as “boosting Nazi propaganda”.

Another Papal favorite was William C. Bullitt, ambassador to France until her fateful demise, another character at the scene of the crime. Ardent Romanist, he is reported as appealing for funds to assist a Catholic Church in the Soviet, the only one “to which a foreigner may go freely to mass”.

J. A, Kensit, in an open letter to Archbishop Hinsley, (now deceased) Roman Catholic primate of England, baldly accuses all of these Catholic ambassadors of complicity in the successful Nazi aggressions on the continent'

It was doubtless a knowledge of some of the great bulk of evidence on the subject that led the unnamed New Dealers, as reported by Washington Times-Herald, to have “frankly said that Catholics are not to be trusted because of their pre-Pearl Harbor position”.

The unanimous voice of Catholic prelates and diplomats is thus raised, with much newspaper amplification, in behalf of Nazism,

Before considering .the only way of escape from the religious shedders of blood, it is noteworthy that the desolation of the conquered does not end with surrender. Against France Papal hatred has burned fiercely since the Revolution of 1789, which struck down much of the aristocratic priesthood. The resultant spread of freedom was hated like a plague. This may account for the war of extermination which is continued by the Hierarchy in that wretched land. According to many authorities the Germans are purposefully and fiendishly annihilating the strength of France. Malnutrition, deportation, especially of males, and executions have brought a total decrease in French population of over three million in the last four years. (“PIC," December 7, 1943) A broadcast of December 8,1943, stated^that in order to block French aid to United Nations invasion forces, Frenchmen of military age have been catalogued for deportation or execution. The Nazis and their pope do not intend that France shall again stand in the way of their advance to world domination.

Another atrocious practice adopted from the Jesuits is the continued looting and killing of Jews. Judaism must also be destroyed. That the wholesale butchery is unabated, declares an eyewitness report of the massacre of 80,000 Jews of Kiev when the Nazis'occupied that portion of the Soviet The Jews were called to report with their valuables supposedly for deportation, then robbed and “placed on platforms in relays, machine-gunned by Nazis”. The dispatch relates the further horror of burning the bodies:

The Germans brought iron fences from a Jewish cemetery near by and we succeeded in building a furnace which would burn furiously. Seven hundred bodies were piled on one layer and then a new layer would be started. This continued until there were approximately 3,800 bodies in one furnace. Then gasoline was poured over the entire mass of wood and bodies, and the pile was set afire. The second furnace we made contained some 1,500 bodies. The bodies were those of men, women and children. [Los Angeles Examiner, November 29, 1943]

These facts, among many recorded in the dailies, are adduced to show the horrible concordat is still bearing fruit.

In many circles where the complicity between Nazi chief and Papal leader is known it is nevertheless considered expedient to soft-pedal or hide the known facts. In most instances this is due to Catholic pressure. But in rare cases such course of timidity seems dictated by the commendable, if shortsighted motive of preventing a rift in democratic forces. The thought is: “Play down the Papal alliance with Nazism in order to retain the loyalty to democracy of Catholics among the United Nations.” The foolishness of this position is that the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, with its legions of confessional priests, is in far better position to inform its population than is the public press. Their counsel •or command can go forth without interruption at any time. It appears, however, that the Hierarchy prefers to cast its people of all lands into the maelstrom of war, uninstructed, and then seek a position of dominance when all are exhausted. Her aims, supported by the Scriptural evidence, are fully disclosed in the lecture “Peace—Can it Last?1’ available now in printed form. This document proves that the pope will be the chief delegate at the coming peace table. Failing the conspiracy with Nazism the harlot of religion will nevertheless govern all nations briefly.—Revelation 17.

These facts will cause some to reason: “If the Hierarchy cannot be stopped by human efforts, why resist them? Why attempt to expose them ? If, by all accounts, MAHCH 1, 1M4

they are scheduled to win, would it not be more expedient to take their side and' thus avoid punishment?” This reasoning is fallacy chiefly because it does not take into consideration the Lord’s announced vengeance against religion, foremost of which is Rome’s. God warns to come out of that institution in order to avoid the evil He will inflict upon hypocritical religion in the coming squaring of accounts at Armageddon. —Revelation 18: 4.

On the other hand, lining up with Rome is no assurance of safety. Millions of Catholics are dying yearly in the battle for world domination. Nor is it any defense to a nation to protect a spy within its bosom. Therefore it is particularly in behalf of the Catholic people that this expose is written. It is not a criticism of Catholic population, the chief sufferers. Their Catholicism was learned at their mother’s knee, who in turn had learned it from their forefathers, d own through many generations.

In friendly warning the facts are given to those who have supported an organization which has been to their hurt. Let the evidence be regarded not as an offensive attack upon Catholics, but as an indictment of religion’s autocrats and dictators. With such men Jehovah has a controversy! It therefore behooves the people to give them a wide berth of avoidance. They have sown for the people nothing but the fruit of destruction, the chief fruit of the concordat, and have no just claim upon the population they have mercilessly given to the slaughter. Harsh words? Note how the Scriptures foretold their heartless cruelty; “If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. Those that remain of him shall be buried in death.” (Job 27:14,15) (The .New World, page 263) This now befalls, and will continue to befall, the Hierarchy’s children. The question then becomes: Why provoke the Lord’s displeasure by supporting His doomed enemy ? Why

stay on the sinking ship, which can offer no safety, which deserves no aid? Examine the imagined duty inherited from superstitious parents, and careful analysis will disclose the ugly form of fear. This fear is not of God: “There is no' fear in love; hut perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. God is love.” (1 John 4:18,8) Let all who now observe the savage treachery of religion turn to Jehovah for protection, even as Jesus exhorted.—Matthew 24.

Conclusion

Reviewing all the evidence, convincing proof appears of the politico-religious ring, seeking world domination, whose purpose was confirmed and sealed by the 1933 concordat between Hitler and the pope. Advancing when the democracies suffered from crises which largely preoccupied them with domestic difficulties, Nazism found world conditions ripe for growth. Timing, unexpectedness, and the green-go light of Papal blessing contributed tremendous power to Hitler’s legions. Fully trusting, in religious support Hitler marched. His panzers were performance tools of the concordat. Looking for the approval of their chiefs, the Nazi-Catholic armies thrust in the sickle of destruction, reaping abundant and bloody fruit of Hitler’s concordat.

The religious dictator of Vatican City, Eugenio Pacelli, fulfilled his part with zeal. Since Papal hopes and ambitions for world domination now rested upon Hitler, the “White Knight”, the “Sword of the Church”, all the facilities of Rome’s vast organization, its clerical masters of propaganda, espionage and deception, were placed at Nazi disposal.

Nazism, Fascism, the Falange, the Synarehismo, the Shinto, names of slavery, became the bugle cry of Rome’s representatives. Those who clamor for it do well to consider the conditions in these countries, such as Spain, Germany, and Japan, which have adopted the above symbols of the pope’s “New Order” as approved founder-members. Not even Spellman could conceal the wretchedness of Spain, after five years of Fascist rule. The promoters, however, have been shrewd at the selection of slogans, cunningly able to produce confusing propaganda, skillful at change of name and dress, while constant in the destruction of men’s rights. The prelate, the Japanese, the press, the diplomat, and the clerical spy received simultaneous orders from their religious head to wage a “holy war” for Nazism. .The fifth column and the other four went to work instanter!

Hitler would have been powerless without this aid. The pope, on the other hand, required a Catholic for his tool because “the sword” must install Roman Catholic Church power, waning especially where democracy had made inroads, in every nation conquered. Hitler has done that! Hitler is Catholic, has consecrated the German army to Catholic aggressive aims of long standing, and fulfilled the concordat in every major respect. Asserted rifts between religionist and dictator are not supported by any proof worthy of mention.

However serious the charge, it is not intended as a criticism of Catholics. Any indictment that comes to the minds of those who have considered the facts should be directed at the organization . which has abused more Catholics than any others. If received as meant, the information is a friendly warning to Catholics and other men of the deathdealing traps of religion.

Almighty Jehovah is the Settler of -all accounts. His day of reckoning against religion is the imminent battle of Armageddon. Neither support nor comfort for religious Rome is worth the price of being thus found consorting with His enemy when the Lord strikes! Flee the bloody house of Rome before the fatal day! Flee, as Jesus urged, while there is yet timel-

^T^WORD is Truth"

—John 17:17

Ordination—True and False

THE noblest, highest and most worthy of all occupations is that of serving the Almighty God as His minister. On the other hand, the most contemptible and despicable of all occupations in the sight of God and honest men is that of falsely claiming to preach and teach God’s Word. It is the duty of this journal to champion the former and condemn and expose the latter. In this effort, the profound words of Thomas Jefferson, often spoken of as the “father of American democracy”, as contained in the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (Virginia Code, Section 34), offer the good assurance, to wit, that:

... truth is great and will prevail, if left to herself; that she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

Among all Scriptural subjects, the mind of the people is more muddled, uncertain and confused on the subject of ministerial ordination than on any other. It is therefore timely that a short inquiry be made into the history of the subject.

The only source of authority on this subject is the Word of God himself, that is, the Bible. When Jehovah was directing the affair’s of His covenant people, the nation of Israel, how were the prophets ordained?

Upon examination of the Scriptural record it will be found that in no instance was their ordination accompanied by any sort of religious ceremony or “hocus-pocus”' These faithful men were chosen and ordained as prophets in Israel by Jehovah God, and man had no part therein. Moses received his appointment of ordination from Jehovah God at the foot of Mount Horeb when Jehovah spoke to him from the burning bush. (Exodus, chapter 3) David was chosen by Jehovah to “feed . . . his people” while David was a mere shepherd lad. (Psalm 78:70,71) Jeremiah plainly states that he was ordained to preach by Jehovah God. (Jeremiah, chapter 1) Likewise, the prophet Elisha received his ordination from Jehovah though he was but a humble farmer.—1 Kings 19:16,19-21; 2 Kings 2: 9-15.

It will be noted that none of these faithful men had attended any theological seminary or other institution where professional preachers were educated and turned out. In each instance God chose them because of their humble and honest heart. Their ordination and service as ministers of Jehovah foreshadowed the Great Minister who was yet to come.

The Son of Jehovah God was born in a. rude stable and was raised as a carpenter’s son. Never did He attend any parochial or ecclesiastical school. He had been taught and educated for the ministry by His earthly parents at home. He had been brought up “in the nurture and admonition of the Lord”. (Ephesians 6:4; Deuteronomy 6:4-7; Mark 6:2; Luke 2: 39-52; 4: 22) He was ordained by Almighty God, who accepted His unbreakable agreement to serve Him and bear witness to the truth. (John-8: 25-32; 18:37; Hebrews 10:5-10) This agreement was symbolized by water baptism, and thereupon He became ordained to preach “this gospel of the kingdom”. (John 1:29-34; Matthew 3:13-17: 24:14; Acts 10:37,38) After symbolizing His consecration to God by baptism in the river Jordan, at which time He was ordained, Jesus publicly stated the authority of His ordination by reading from Isaiah 61:1,2:. 'The spirit of the Lord [Jehovah] is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.’—Luke 4:17-19.

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