English Translation

A b s c h r i f t of copies, probably produced by the Ordinariat Metz in the reproduction process and sent to the parish offices in Lorraine Again, we are gathered at the grave of St. Bonifatius in Fulda to discuss what time and hour requires of us, what the need commands and the danger in which the kath commands itself. Before we proceed to the deliberations, we have raised our hearts and minds to the Holy Spirit, the invincible leader of the Foundation of the Son of God, and the Creatur Spirit begged for light and power from above. But then our child duty is to first offer to the common father of Christendom the vow of unbreakable faithfulness and most awe-inspiring devotion, for in Ew. Holiness we worship the head as well as the whole universal Church, as also the kath. Church in Germany, the supreme teacher of divine truth, the called defender of their God-desired freedom, the most secure guardian of their holy treasures of grace, and today in the midst of the mighty struggle for religion, Christianity and the Church, we cling more and more to the rock of Peter, which the divine Saviour himself set up in the wave of worlds. In the unbroken unity with the Roman throne, and only in this unity, that is our never wavering confidence, will we also lead the Church to victory in Germany, to victory, which consists in making her truth all the more palatable and succumbing to her treasures of grace. Is it necessary to describe the situation of the Kingdom of God in Germany to the above shepherd with an ever awake eye? We are allowed to do so in a sound manner.