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Critism of a German leaflet from early 1940s against Catholic doctrine, in which racial differences are ignored and race mixing is condoned, but it was condemned an infamy for a Catholic man to marry a non-Catholic woman. The leaflet criticises the fact, that Catholic priests in Germany were told, that a Catholic negro stands closer to them than German non-Catholics. It also criticises the ideology of Pope Pius XI, stating 1938 "Catholic means universal" and condemning Germany's and Italy's conservation of racial identity as "racism", although excluding all other religions from the "universal catholic race" is truely arrogant and racist:

"We regard racism and exaggerated nationalism as barriers raised between man and man, between people and people, between nation and nation. ... All men are, above all, members of the same great kind. They all belong to the single great family of the living. Humankind is therefore a single, universal catholic race."^[1]

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