Frases de Clemens August Graf von Galen

Clemens August Graf von Galen fue obispo de Münster y cardenal de la Iglesia católica, de origen nobiliario. Educado por los jesuitas, luego de su ordenación trabajó en Berlín en San Matías, donde conoció y trabó amistad con el nuncio Eugenio Pacelli . Criticó abiertamente el régimen nazi, realizó fuertes denuncias públicas del programa de eutanasia nazi y de la persecución a la Iglesia católica, haciendo de él una de las voces internas más visibles de oposición a los nazis. Se ganó el apodo de “El León de Münster”. El 9 de octubre de 2005, el papa Benedicto XVI lo declaró beato, en el 47º aniversario de la muerte de Pío XII . Wikipedia  

✵ 16. marzo 1878 – 22. marzo 1946
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Clemens August Graf von Galen: Frases en inglés

“And now go and serve your fatherland.”

von Galen, to the philosopher Josef Pieper when he went to say farewell to the bishop, having been drafted into the German army in 1943. Pieper remarked; I was somewhat baffled; it was a long time since I had heard such words, but on his lips they were by no means a mere pathetic cliché; he meant them in all seriousness;they were to be taken literally. See Beth A. Griech Polelle, Bishop Von Galen, p. 20.

“These unfortunate patients must die but rather because, in the opinion of some department, on the testimony of some commission, they have become 'worthless life' because according to this testimony they are 'unproductive national comrades.'”

The argument goes: they can no longer produce commodities, they are like an old machine that no longer works, they are like an old horse which has become incurably lame, they are like a cow which no longer gives milk.
Speech against Nazi euthanasia (August 3, 1941)