In this way the Catholics will profess again their loyalty to people and Fatherland and their agreement with the farsighted and forceful efforts of the Führer to spare the German people the terror of war and Bolshevism, to secure public order and create work for the unemployed.
- Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber of Bavaria, encouraging German Catholics to vote "yes" in the upcoming plebiscite to re-elect Hitler and support his decision to withdraw from the League of Nations, November 10, 1933
[Adolf Hitler is] the tool of God, called upon to overcome Judaism...
- Father Senn, a Catholic priest, writing in a Catholic publication, May 15, 1934
[Germany must be made militarily stronger to ensure that not only would Europe be] cleansed from Bolshevism, but the entire rescued civilized world will be able to be thankful to us. ...The task which this imposes upon our people and Fatherland follows as a matter of course. May our Führer, with God's help, succeed in completing this terribly difficult undertaking with unshakable determination and faithful participating of all Volksgenossen.
- Fulda German Bishops' Conference, Pastoral Letter, August 19, 1936
"The Führer and Chancellor of the Reich, Adolf Hitler, has sighted the advance of Bolshevism from afar and his thoughts and aspirations aim at averting the horrible danger from our German people and the entire Occident. The German bishops consider it their duty to support the head of the German Reich by all those means which the Church has at its disposal." Faulhaber insists that defending against Bolshevism is a religious duty and, to achieve this, it is necessary for the Church to muster all its moral and spiritual assets "to strengthen confidence in the Führer."
- Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber of Bavaria, Pastoral Letter, January 3, 1937
We joyfully acknowledge that the National Socialist movement has done and is still doing eminent work in the domain of national and economic construction as well as in the domain of social policy, for the Reich and the German nation... We are also convinced that the activity of the National Socialist movement has averted the danger of an all-destroying atheistic Bolshevism. For the future, the bishops confer their heartiest blessing on this activity, and they will instruct the faithful to this effect. ...it is for us a national duty, as Germans, to vote for the German Reich, and we also expect all believing Christians to demonstrate that they know what they owe to their nation.
Catholic Hierarchy of Austria, March 18, 1938