A native of Holland he was a brave voice in the middle of a mighty force of evil during World War 2. In 1935 Hitler promulgated new marriage laws restricting the rights of Jews. Titus was one of the few voices who protested loudly against Hitler but he protested on this one in the press and in a lecture tour undertaken to explain its evil. During the 2nd world war he issued guidelines to the Dutch Catholic Press telling them that newspapers could not carry Nazi propaganda or advertisments and still call themselves Catholic. He was arrested by the Nazis, sent to prison, then to a concentration camp where he was eventually put to death by lethal injection.