The Lion of Münster Quotes

“Why the hatred of Christianity? The answer was easy to find. Since they knew that their myth was their own creation, they believed that Christians were also following a self-created myth. The Christian “myth,” however, acknowledged something higher than the German nation and people. From the national standpoint of the new pagans, belief in a God who is above the world and above all nations appeared to be disloyal. This, the bishop held, accounted for the mistrust of Christians, the belief that they were unwilling to cooperate with their fellow citizens in the rebuilding of their nation. That was why there were so many efforts to exclude Christianity from public life and the education of the young.”
― Daniel Utrecht, The Lion of Munster: The Bishop Who Roared Against the Nazis

“It is right and beneficial to call attention to this fact when appropriate. Catholics should not pessimistically put their hands in their pockets. It is our holy task to work especially for: • maintaining the purity of supernatural truth; • justice in all areas of human life; • freedom of the Church to fulfill her sacred tasks.”
― Daniel Utrecht, The Lion of Munster: The Bishop Who Roared Against the Nazis

“Freedom and authority are both fundamental principles of human communal life,” he said. “Both find their foundation and their ruling principle in God. When this foundation is misunderstood and misused, there will always be a misuse of freedom and authority.”
― Daniel Utrecht, The Lion of Munster: The Bishop Who Roared Against the Nazis

“Recalling St. Paul’s command to Timothy (2 Tim. 4:1–5) to preach the truth in season and out of season, “For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, and having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths”
― Daniel Utrecht, The Lion of Munster: The Bishop Who Roared Against the Nazis

“He even went so far as to quote from the declaration Hitler made at the time: “For more than two decades the Jewish-Bolshevik power-holders in Moscow have been trying to set not only Germany, but all of Europe, on fire . . .”6”
― Daniel Utrecht, The Lion of Munster: The Bishop Who Roared Against the Nazis