BELGIAN BISHOPS’ CHALLENGE.
Cardinal Mercier and the Belgian bishops have challenged the German and Austrian Roman Catholic Episcopate to establish a tribunal of Inquiry into the allegations of atrocities, whether against Germans or Belgians. It is suggested that the tribunal should consist of three German bishops, three Belgian bishops and a neutral president to be nominated by the Episcopate of Holland, Spain, Switzerland or the United States, The challenge says : “You will summon before the tribunal whomsoever you wish. We shall ask to appear before it all the priests of parishes where civilians, priests, monks, nuns or laymen were massacred or threatened with death on the plea that ‘someone had fired.’ We shall ask all these priests to sign their depositions on oath, and then, unless it is pretended that the whole Belgian clergy is perjured, you will be obliged to accept, and the civilised world will not be able to reject the conclusions of this solemn and decisive inquiry. And we add that you have the same interest as we in the constitution of a tribunal of honour.” There does not seem to have been any answer irom the German bishops.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1522, 14 March 1916, Page 2
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192BELGIAN BISHOPS’ CHALLENGE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1522, 14 March 1916, Page 2
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