The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

The prelates specifically endorsed "adequate defense of our country" appealed for national unity, ex- pressed hope for labor peace and asked prayers for the President, the Congress and "all who bear the grave responsibilities of government in these difficult days" They asked prayers for the suffering and op- pressed and for "the attainment of peac ethat will be accepted by all rightsthinking governments and in- dlvtduais as permeated by justice and charity"
 The views of the preiates, who met here last week, were voiced through Nle administrative board of the Nae Aonal Catholic Welfare Conference"
 Christianity faces today its most serious crisis since the church came out of the catacomhs.
 We, the members of the admin istgative board of the National cathon Welfare Conference, de- puted in the annual meeting of the Bishops of the United States to express their mind on the crisis of Christianity, declare, as slep- herds of souls, that our concern is the supreme interest of reli- zion.
 Our thoughts, therefore, turn to the two greatest evils Of today which would destroy ell spiritual values. We find two gSibversive forces, both in control of power full governments, ohth bent on world dominance. They are nag ism and communism.
 However plausible their consti- tutions and thelr propaganda, the alarming reality is that neither Sytens understands or permits freedom ln its true Christian sense. Both systems usurp arbi- trary power over the lives and destinieS of men; their dictAtors assume Q power which belongs to God alone.
 Epoch EncycIlcals
 Our late Holy Father slgnifi- cantly Issued his epochal encycs Heal on nazisrn and atheistic com- munism within five days of eah other.
 Ills Holiness condemned the abeirations of nazism, its denial of God in the true Christian senGe, it's deification of the State, its uSurpation of the powers of God, of religion and of parents, its Ratification of Christian ter. minology, it's betrayal of the eternal principles of objective mo- rallty, and It's rejection of the rights and dignity of every hu. man being. Pope Plus xI, with prophetic vision, declared that "its tsazism) Fnachinations, from he beginning, had no other aims than a war of exterminRtion." He branded the Nazi QppressorS of the church in Germany as "the fiuiifiers and destroyeFs of the Christian West"
 Ths late Holy Father, while condemn.ng the Nazi system, ex- pressed his love for the German peolle in these words:
 Before our eyes stands the countless throng of faithful sons and daughters for whom the suf- ferirg of the church in Germany, and their own suffering, has in no way dimished their devotion to the cause of God nor di- unfinished their cheerful readiness to remain true to what they have believed and have received from their forefathers as Q sacred in- heritance. From Q heart that s deeply moved, we send them our paternal greetings"
 The Holy See has condemned s;hcistic communism. Pope Plus TX, Leo KIT, Plus XI pronounced their solemn condemnations of the system. Exercising their God-glven commission, the Roman Pontiffs cou'd take no other course than to condemn the CT. Tcrs, tine tactics, the satanic de- signs Of communism.
 No Compromise
 At no time can there be any possibility Of compromising with