Editing Mit brennender Sorge (section)

=== Call to priests and religious ===
{{blockquote|36.&nbsp;…The priest's first loving gift to his neighbors is to serve truth and refute error in any of its forms. Failure on this score would be not only a betrayal of God and your vocation, but also an offense against the real welfare of your people and country. To all those who have kept their promised fidelity to their Bishops on the day of their ordination; to all those who in the exercise of their priestly function are called upon to suffer persecution; to all those imprisoned in jail and concentration camps, the Father of the Christian world sends his words of gratitude and commendation.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>}}

{{blockquote|37. Our paternal gratitude also goes out to Religious and nuns, as well as Our sympathy for so many who, as a result of administrative measures hostile to Religious Orders, have been wrenched from the work of their vocation. If some have fallen and shown themselves unworthy of their vocation, their fault, which the Church punishes, in no way detracts from the merit of the immense majority, who, in voluntary abnegation and poverty, have tried to serve their God and their country&nbsp;…<ref name="ReferenceA"/>}}Pius ends the encyclical with a call to priests and religious to serve truth, to unmask and refute error, with the laity being urged to remain faithful to Christ and to defend the rights which the Concordat had guaranteed them and the Church.<ref name="Lewy, 1967, p. 157" /> The encyclical dismisses "[Nazi] attempts to dress up their ghastly doctrines in the language of religious belief.":<ref name="Burleigh, 2006, p. 191" />