Ping.
"Early this month he was notified that the palace would be renovated and taken over as an office for the Nazis. At the same time the German secret police took over the Franciscan Monastery in Salsburg and various Catholic orphanages were turned over to the Hitler Youth.
"Josef Buerckel, Reich Commissioner for Austria has accused Catholics of political attacks against the Nazis and in several speeches has warned that the Hitler government would not permit the church to have other than spiritual leadership in the new Germany.
"Following such attacks by Herr Buerckel, six priests were arrested in Vienna and accused of complicity in demonstrations against the Nazi regime. At that time Archbishop Waitz was barred from visits to schools, because, it was alleged, he had supported monks who had opposed the occupation of the Salzburg monastery."
I'd call such events as these quite important, because they form part of the the background to the Church's rather limp Holocaust responses. Here we see the Nazis kicking the archbishop in his teeth, while arresting some of his priests, and exactly what did the Church do or say about it?
If the Church would not even vigorously defend itself, how much defense could it expect to offer hapless Jews?