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73 Secret State Police Prague, 1 February 1944 State Police Headquarters Prague B.Nr.: - IV B 1 - ES D6E0G3S 0993 O STHE hru netnotn - DS Excerpt from the encyclical Pope Pius XII. o "About the mystical body of Jesus Christ and about our @0 ed connection with Christ in him" of 29 June 1943. S - pp..."We therefore consider it Our task - to talk to you about this in this circular, by pointing out and explaining this in front of us, as far as the conflicting Church is concerned. For this purpose, not only the extraordinary grandeur of this truth itself, but also our present state of affairs..." "...But we also know that the Church of God is despised by CE and haughty and hostile, not just by those who reject the light of Christian wisdom and speak the word of a pathetic return to the teachings, customs and installations of a pagan past. It often encounters Vrecognition, indifference, and even a certain abhorrence and abstinence even among many Christians, who are entangled by the blind appearance of error or are engrossed by the enticing temptations and temptations of the world. We therefore have every reason, Venerable Brothers, from O0 duty of conscience and to seek the wishes of many żu, to put before everyone the beauty, majesty and glory of our Mother, the Church to whom we owe everything to God, and to praise it." l "...But now perhaps more clearly than d@, the impermanence and transience of everything is evident today." Earthly ones, as empires and states are overthrown, because enormous values and riches of all kinds are sunk on the wide seas, because cities, fortresses and fertile fields are shattered into gruesome ruins and stained by fraternal murder..." "...We also hope that it will not be unprofitable for those who are separated from the i shot of the Catholic Church, what We are now about the mystical body of Jesus Christ. And this is not only because -ifot seems to grow daily against the Church but also for the following reason: When they perceive how people are currently against the people and kingdom against the kingdom, QNANR ./.