Clement August, Cardinal Graf von Galen
Dec. 22nd, 2003 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arisbe'Not one of us is certain, though he be the most loyal, the most conscientious citizen, though he knows himself innocent, I say that not one of us is certain that he will not any day be dragged from his house and carried off to the cells of some concentration camp. I know full well that this may happen to me, perhaps now or on some future day. And it is because I shall then no longer be able to speak out publicly that I do so today. I openly warn them not to pursue these actions which I am firmly convinced will call down God's punishment and bring our people to misery and ruin...
'We demand Justice! If this plea is unheard and unheeded, if the rule of true justice is not brought back, our German nation will, notwithstanding the bravery of our soldiers and their splendid victories, collapse from internal corruption and uncleanness'.
The other day I posted some links to a number of men who represented a kind of virility of spirit which needs to be acknowledged and fostered in the young.
I did not realize that the same day the Vatican was already acting on the cause of one of the men I linked to, the venerable Charles Francis Ferdinand, Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary, and King of Bohemia, publicly approving the miracle necessary for his beatification.
At the same time there was proclaimed the heroic virtue of a man who was an undoubted inspiration to the the student propagandists of the White Rose, whose leader was on my list as well. The new "venerable" is Clement August, Cardinal Graf von Galen, whose words I quoted above; clicking on them will take you to more on Hitler's most public adversary within Germany. I find it truly amazing that the Nazis didn't do away with him. Perhaps they were afraid that his disappearance might have led to open rebellion.
'We demand Justice! If this plea is unheard and unheeded, if the rule of true justice is not brought back, our German nation will, notwithstanding the bravery of our soldiers and their splendid victories, collapse from internal corruption and uncleanness'.
The other day I posted some links to a number of men who represented a kind of virility of spirit which needs to be acknowledged and fostered in the young.
I did not realize that the same day the Vatican was already acting on the cause of one of the men I linked to, the venerable Charles Francis Ferdinand, Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary, and King of Bohemia, publicly approving the miracle necessary for his beatification.
At the same time there was proclaimed the heroic virtue of a man who was an undoubted inspiration to the the student propagandists of the White Rose, whose leader was on my list as well. The new "venerable" is Clement August, Cardinal Graf von Galen, whose words I quoted above; clicking on them will take you to more on Hitler's most public adversary within Germany. I find it truly amazing that the Nazis didn't do away with him. Perhaps they were afraid that his disappearance might have led to open rebellion.