B_345_The-Rulers-of-Russia

vist circles, in spite of their protestations, were being infected
with a spiritual Communism.
In his Letter of 2nd February, 1930, On the Soviet Campaign
against God, Pope Pius XI wrote as follows "We were also at
pains to ask the Governments represented at the Conference of
Genoa, to make, by common agreement, a declaration which might
have saved Russia and all the world from many woes, demanding
as a condition preliminary to any recognition of the Soviet Government,
respect for conscience, freedom of worship and of church
property. Alas, these three points, so essential above all to those
ecclesiastical hierarchies unhappily separated from Catholic unity,
were abandoned in favour of temporal interests, which in fact
would have been better safeguarded, if the different Governments
had first of all considered the rights of God, His Kingdom and
His Justice." The Governments of Europe refused concerted
action for the rights of God. Now that war has broken out in
Europe, Russia will make every effort to pursue her campaign
against God.
In the splendid Encyclical Letter On the Condition of the
Church in Germany (March 14th, 1937), Pope Pius XI said that
"the first and obvious duty the priest owes to the world about
him is service to the truth, the whole truth, the unmasking and
refutation of error in whatever form or disguise it conceals itself."
During the terrible conflict that is now raging in Europe, one of
the greatest services that can be rendered to the cause of truth
is to warn the world of the ulterior revolutionary designs of the
Rulers of Russia. They aim everywhere, as in Spain, at the elimination
of the love of Our Lord. Their efforts in Spain have
terminated in a glorious victory for Christ, and to-day, the Feast
of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the Crucifix is being solemnly
reinstated in the schools of Madrid and of the provinces, from
which it had been banished. "Spain's victory has mainly been a
victory of the Cross, and our war was fought as a crusade against
the enemies of truth." So runs the decree of the Spanish Minister
of Education ordaining this act of reparation. May the example
of Spanish Catholicism nerve Catholics for the coming struggle
everywhere! There are ominous signs of preparations, on the part
of International Financiers, under cover of the war, for a naturalistic
organisation of the United States of Europe and of the
World. It will be a new and revised edition of that Judaeo-
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