Norbert Wallez

Abbé Norbert Wallez (French: [valɛz]; 19 October 1882 – 24 September 1952) was a Belgian Catholic priest and journalist.

In 1924, by order of Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier, he assumed the leadership of the conservative Catholic newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle.

Quelques directives d'une politique (1923), was the federation of Belgium and the Rhineland, a region of Germany that he considered essentially Catholic, in contrast to Protestant Prussia.

Wallez was crucial in the choice of the first three destinations of Tintin: Soviet Russia, Belgian Congo and United States.

With the German invasion of Belgium in 1940, he resumed writing, and supported the Rexist Party led by Léon Degrelle.