The Archive · 1938

Nazis at Impasse Negotiations on Austrian Catholic Church Stopped

Vienna, Sept. 21.

Negotiations between Cardinal Innitzer and the Nazi authorities have Lroken down.

Cardinal Innitzer recently signed a decree banning the "Union for Religious Peace," an organization - of Catholic priests who sympathized with the Nazis.

The decree was suppressed by the newspapers, but was circulated to every Catholic priest in Austria.

It complained of the new matrix monial law, the alleged confiscation of clerical property and the suppress sion of Catholic schools.—Reuter.

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