dear Faithful, it is with bleeding heart that we have  
told you all this. We well realize the sacrifices which are demanded of   
you.    But it is a question of the salvation of your immortal souls.      
It would have been easier for us to keep silence, but we cannot leave   
     you in doubt regarding tho significance of facts.      
 
                                                            
 
 
In this we are in agreement with our German  
colleagues in the Episcopate. Last July 6th the twenty-nine bishops and   
superior ecclesiasis of the German Reich caused to be published from their   
churches a letter protesting against the unjust treatment accorded to the   
Catholic Church in Germany during recent times. They declared that it is a   
question of the existence or the suppression of Christianity in the church   
of Germany." Then they continue:    Recently there were distributed   
hundreds of thousands of copies of a book which claimed that we Germans   
must choose today between Christ and the German people. With burning   
indignation we refused, we German Catholics, to make such a choice. We   
love our Gen-,aan people and we serve it, if it is necessary, with the   
sacrifice of our lives.    But at the same time we live and die for Jesus   
hrist and with Him we wish to remoin united now and for ever
 
                                                       Dear/