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Monument to the members of the Whilte Rose Movement |
His Excellency, Monsignor Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster has this weekend attended the CCEE European Congress on University Pastoral Care, presiding over the CCEE Committee Catechesis-School-University, which took place in Munich.
During the weekend, delegates watched the film Sophie Scholl - the Final Days. They also visited the Monument to the members of the White Rose Movement.
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Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl & Christoph Probst were executed by guillotine on 22nd February 1943 |
Fr Dermot Fenlon, who has an interest in Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Movement, has spoken of the link between the movement and Cardinal John Henry Newman. In a speech given at the international symposium on Newman in Milan, March 2009, Fr Fenlon explained that Sophie, a Lutheran, was introduced to the works of Newman by a scholar called Theodor Haecker, who had written to the Birmingham Oratory in 1920 asking for copies of Newman's work, which he wanted to translate into German.
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Monument in front of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl and Christophe Probst distributed resistence leaflets. |
