[To the Editor of TUE SPECTATOR.] Sm,—Those who, like Mr.
Keith Toms, accuse the Catholic Church of a " sympathy, if not a co-operation," with Fascism as such, will find some of the facts difficult to interpret. it would be interesting to know whether these critics realise that the Dutch bishops have ordered the sacraments to be refused to anyone seriously implicated in Nazi activities (the gravity of this prohibition will be evident to your well- informed readers). When such facts as this have been driven home, it may be possible even for the Church's enemies to hear the rumbles of persecution in Germany ; and perhaps even to recognise by other signs that the visible representative of the Mystical Body is not and cannot be identified with any totalitarian State, any more than it could be fitted into a totalitarian Roman Empire.--I am, Sir, &c.,
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