Vatican City, Apr. 7.
The declaration of the Austrian Fishops, advising Austrian Catholics to vote for the anschluss in the forthcoming plebiscite, should not be interpreter as approving anything incompatible with the liberty of the Church, declared Cardinal Innitzer, head of the Roman Catholic Church Austria, in a statement to the Osservatore Romano" before his departure for Vienna, Neither should it be interpreted as an obligation of conscience on Catholics.
The Austrian Bishops, he added, had demanded that all regulations relating to schools and the bringing up of youth should be in accordance with the natural rights of parents and the principles of the Catholic Church. They had also demanded propaganda against religion and e Church must be prohibited.
During his brief stay here, Cardinal Innitzer interviewed the Pope and Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary State—Reuter,
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