id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005459438 Zaremba, Theodore. Prayers for the Church of Silence 1954 .txt text/plain 14651 679 66 The status of the Catholic Church prior to the persecution was as fol- lows: In LITHUANIA the Catholic Church was the dominant Church. — 45 — About 80 percent of the three million inhabitants of Lithuania were Cath- olics. “This is a war against the True Religion of Jesus Christ.” —Bishops’ Statement, 1953 Persecution of the Catholic Church is not a novelty. cache/_005459438.txt txt/_005459438.txt