MORALS IN GERMANY
A pastoral signed by Cardinal Bertram, Archbishop of- Breslau, and by all theGerman Catholic archbishops and bishops, dealing with the increase of vice and decay of morals, has been published throughout Germany. The pastoral declares that open immorality has been greatly increased by the war and the national misfortune, and if it is not checked the whole German people must go under in it. It has become worse since the revolution, which was the hour of the. powers of darkness. Tho effects are seen in tho shameful output of the secret Press and in theatres and kinemas, where morals and the sanctity of marriage and family .are openly mocked at. . Among the causes of this growth of immorality the pastoral sees the immodesty of fashions in dress, and it exhorts German women to reform them. It regards the latest outcome of these immoral tendencies, the movement to abolish punishment for what it calls prenatal murder,” with deepest, concern. The pastoral conveys the . impression that there has been an increase of immorality in country districts of Germany, apart from the towns; it states that this view is confirmed by the deepest thinkers in science, statesmanship, medicine, and education*
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 108, 31 January 1921, Page 4
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200MORALS IN GERMANY Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 108, 31 January 1921, Page 4
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