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TIL of “Mit brennender Sorge,” a papal letter secretly smuggled into Germany and read from every Catholic pulpit on Palm Sunday, 1937. It condemned the Reich Government and implied that everyone in Heaven was laughing at Hitler, a “prophet of nothingness”.

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