Show POPE PROTESTS GERMAN ACTION I Treatment of Pilgrim L Catholics Rankles VATICAN CITY May 6 Pope Pop ff Pope PiU Pius today voiced strong protest against nazi Germanys Germany's treatment of 2 2000 young Catholics who returned t to o their f fatherland after an Easter pilgrimage to Rome The pontiffs pontiff's protest came In the c course ourse o of an address s to other oUter German German German Ger Ger- man pilgrims He expressed the he hope that they would receive better treatment t than han th their ir youthful predecessors ors The official Romano l last ast t week printed reports from Germany Ger- Ger many that the 2000 German German- Catholics r returning to their native land were t treated as political suspects subjected subject subject- e ed d to close questioning stripped of their heir t mementoes of Rome and help held f for tor or a time in a concentration camp The pope said They wish in the name of so called positive Christianity Christian Christian- it i ity ty to de-Christianize de Germany and t they hey wish to conduct the cou country try back to barbaric paganism and nothing noth noth- l ing ug is left leU undone to disturb Christian a and nd Catholic life lie We hope his holiness adjured t the he listening Germans that upon your return to your country you Jou ou willbe will wilt willbe be treated better than those pious plow and splendid young men devoted and faithful to the church and to t their heir country who not long ago cameo cameto came t to o see sec me me their spiritual father We uWe remember them and speak of ot them with the honor honor- due duc them from foni the Catholic and the civilized world |