The troubles endured by the Roman Catholic Church in recent years in Mexico, Spain and Italy have set a pattern of conflict which by last week was being closely followed in Germany. The pattern: an authoritarian, international Church in an authoritarian, nationalist State, the two being bound together by their common distrust of freedom and liberalism and driven apart by their respective determination to bring up and educate youth in a different way.
The Total State v. the Total Church battle is by no means new in Germany. The Church has never...
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