Edited sentence: As Cardinal Faulhaber put it in a sermon delivered in 1937: "At a time when the heads of the major nations in the world faced the new Germany with cool reserve and considerable suspicion, the Catholic Church, the greatest moral power on earth, through the Concordat expressed its confidence in the new German government.On the significance of the Reichskonkordat, Lewy writes:.There is general agreement that the Concordat increased substantially the prestige of Hitler's regime around the world.This was a deed of immeasurable significance for the reputation of the new government abroad