[Askel5]

The point remains that the Roman institution does excommunicate people whom one would assume they didn't need to. Except Hitler.

For the simple reason that these sorts either continue to proclaim themselves Catholic or are in the process of leading others astray under what they are professing is "Catholic" teaching.

I fail to see how Hitler met that test. He strikes me as a neo-pagan.

First and Second Things

[Doctor Doom]

Not that I would want to pit one group against another (heaven forfend!) but if any denomination shares blame for the anti-Semitism of Naziism it isn't Catholicism.

Hitler found quite fertile ground for his anti-Semitic poison in the majority Lutheran culture that was early 20th Century Germany.