STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 642, sig. 109-4/390 Page 7 · 7 of 42
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 642, sig. 109-4/390
English Translation
The current state of the organization of the Catholic Church. The papacy, whose present representative is Pius XII, has an extensive organization that spans the whole world as a means of achieving its goals. According to the presumptuous claim to bring all peoples under their dominion, as it is to the demand of the bull Bonifaz XIII. (Unam Sancta) is "that it is absolutely necessary for every human creature to be subject to the Roman pope", the Church has built up this organization over time. The Catholic Church wants to be a ideological and political factor, but it has always been able to do so with the help of its organization. The author of Catholic works in church law, Erwin Roderich von Kienitz, writes: "It is not to be denied that the Church has often thrown its weight as a political factor into the balance with great success and won spiritual victories by political means. And it is no less true that the church is in amazing adaptability 7