English Translation

*πOq o P Report of the German Embassy to the Holy See, Rem, dated 16.4.1944: The Roman clergy is easily subject to local influences and stands out for their personal security or also for the local institutions of the Catholic Church. The papa believes that the Church is concerned with the goose. However, he does not consider the physical powers as important as the ideas that lead them with him. Communism is already knocking on the tera of Rome. However, the Catholic Church has not found a right position in the present social age. In the warring great powers, the curia has no stuts on the political bedside either. Italy is no longer a stud and no more a great power. The attitude of Germany is reserved. Japan is far away and uninterested. England behaves boldly, almost negatively. Soviet Russia emphasizes its aversion. North America nims certain external backsights especially now in the presidential election year. Ibero-America is most friendly. In fact, the Church today stands safer than on the old continent. One would be flattered over there if she wanted to draw conclusions and go into the New World emergency quarters. She does not think about it. She cannot deny her origin in the Mediterranean area and leave her seat in Rome nifty if she does not want to reveal herself. On the other hand, it is also far removed from a relapse in church-state changes, which some Romans dreamed of in the last winter. What can the curia do other than to change in the walls of the Vatican and behind its centurion principles? It is already more than 70 years without a real domain. The art of worldly governance has already lost it quite a bit, the College of Cardinals consists of Greisan, who lack sophistication and detachment, - almost all are Italians. .In Rome, even the Pope is in doubt. One wonders whether he does not want to overexploit the power of thought and wisdom, and if he merely prepares himself for it, better political weather eeaq The Catholic Church, however, can have a little quietism of St. M.