EINSTEIN ON THE CHURCH
‘Being a lover of freedom, when the Nazi revolution came in Germany I looked to
the Universities to defend it, knowing that they had already boasted of their
devotion to the cause of truth; but no, the Universities immediately were silenced.
Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers, whose flaring editorials in days
gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the Universities, were
silenced in a few short weeks. Then I looked to the individual writers…they too
were mute. Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for
suppressing truth. I had never had any special interest in the Church before, but
now I feel a great affection and admiration…I am forced, thus, to confess that what
I once despised I now praise unreservedly.’
Albert Einstein, writing in Time, 1940,(quoted by Ralph McInerny,
The Defamation of Pius XII)
