English Translation

:- 21,- 36 3. Churches. The Catholic Church was very active in every respect in the past two months. The Easter period with its many church celebrations gave the clergy sufficient opportunity to assert their great influence in the public sphere. In pastoral letters during Lent, the Bishops of the Protectorate had exhorted the clergy and the faithful not to slacken in fulfilling their duties and to ensure that even those who are too much in political life and do not come to a contemplation for their salvation will be returned to the Church through diligent processing. In a circular to his subordinate clergy, the Bishop of Brno expressed his thanks for the activity within the work of spreading the faith and openly admitted that the successes in recent years have been particularly favourable and that there are no longer any fears for the Church's existence; the Czech people would never again separate themselves from the Church. It is also worth noting that in recent times pastoral words and information material from bishops from the Reich have repeatedly appeared. From this fact the conclusion can be drawn that the local bishops are now informed from the Empire about all the questions that the German Catholic Church leaders deal with. The dioceses of the Protectorate have apparently been tacitly incorporated into the German episcopate after the "modus vivendi" concluded with the former Czechoslovak Republic with the establishment of the protectorate lost its validity and between the empire and the Vatican there is now an uncontracted state for the territories of Bohemia and Moravia. The Czechs were most impressed by the death of Cardinal Kaspar, which was also expressed in many press articles (e.g. "Osvéta lidu" from 26.4.41: "not only the Catholic public, but also all Czechs are losing their lives in their church.