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Mohammed Cartoons: We Have Been Here Before
Today the Danish and Norwegian Embassies were trashed in Syria. The police looked on and did nothing. We have been here before. In 1938, Cardinal Innitzer realising his epic mistake in welcoming the Anschluss of Austria, preached a sermon in St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, “There is just one Fuehrer: Jesus Christ”. His palace was trashed by the Nazis with the police slow, indifferent or looking on. The scene is dramatised in the famous film “The Shoes of the Fisherman”.A few years ago, I met a member of the Catholic Youth who participated in this Mass. On his way home, he greeted someone with “Long Live Our Archbishop” to show he was not a Nazi but a Christian and in consequence he spent the next six years in a concentration camp.
All the more sad then that the Vatican has followed the British Foreign Secretary in appeasing the critics of the publication of the cartoons.
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