English Translation

98 - 9 - of the Sudeten-German-Tun must be contested as strongly as the current political attitude of the German-Catholic clergy in the Protectorate seems questionable. Prague is neither locally nor personally suitable to become a training place of the priestly offspring from the German ethnic groups of the southeast, for this purpose a priestly training for colonial deployment in Prague is unfounded and undesirable due to possible national political effects. To this finding of lack of validity of the reasons given by the RKA, it is added that an essential, if not decisive, moment which was due to the applicants as a motive was concealed, as it became known here, in conjunction with the expanding foreign-priest seminar in Prague, the plan is to advance the work for an association of the Orthodox Eastern Churches in agreement with Rome.In the context of these efforts of the so-called "catholica unio" the seminary in Prague is to be given the character of a so- called Tridentine seminar, the highest sanction that the Vatican can give to a seminar at all. Since the Reichsverband is already feeding German priests to the East of Europe, Prague is supposed to form a bridge to the separate Orthodox Eastern Churches as the headquarters of the Association. It has therefore been considered to join the seminar on foreign affairs in Prague byzantisch-Slavisches Seminar, which is to be taken over by the well-known Augustinian Father Alfons Maria M i t n a c h t. In a discussion between the Prague KA exponent Prof. It was expressly stressed that Rome would sanction and welcome this seminar.