Cardinal Pacelli writes a private letter to Cardinal Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne denouncing the Nazis - Mar. 12, 1935

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Mar. 12, 1935 Cardinal Pacelli writes a private letter to Cardinal Schulte, Archbishop of Cologne denouncing the Nazis.

Excerpts of letter, in translation

Mar. 12, 1935 Cardinal Pacelli writes to Cardinal Schulte, calling the Nazis “false prophets with the pride of Lucifer” who are trying to create an opposition between “faithfulness to the Church and to the Fatherland.”

Source: Ronald Rychlak, Hitler, the War, and the Pope (2010), p.88, citing Volk, Akten Deutscher Bischöfe, vol. 2, pp. 114-117.

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