The Nazi credo was assailed by Arthur Cardinal Hinsley, Archbishop of Westminster, in a sermon at Westminster Catheadral today on the 1,400th anniversary of the birth of Pope Gregory I the Great.
“The civilization of today, as that of the sixth century, has to cope with unbelief and immorality,” the Archbishop said.
The world today witnesses the deification of the State, which means that the individual and his conscience, and as a result God, must be suppressed, he added.
In Nazi Germany the State, or rather the party which pretends to be the State, recognizes only “race and blood,” the Archbishop went on.
“May God prevent England from ever succumbing to such a mad theory,” the Cardinal said.
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