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To: presidio9

Well, let me put it another way. If he didn’t even excommunicate Hitler from the Catholic Church and Hitler is still Catholic then his alleged sainthood is slightly tainted by just doing nothing. Heck, he lived THROUGH what Hitler did to millions and no excommunication.


22 posted on 01/12/2010 5:24:39 PM PST by Karliner (Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before. DDE)
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To: Karliner
Well, let me put it another way. If he didn’t even excommunicate Hitler from the Catholic Church and Hitler is still Catholic then his alleged sainthood is slightly tainted by just doing nothing. Heck, he lived THROUGH what Hitler did to millions and no excommunication.

This is one of the lies that people who are insecure about their own religious convictions spread about Hitler and attempt of damage the Catholic Church. You need to get your facts straight. Adolph Hitler's Catholic mother had him baptized, like every other child in Catholic Austria. According to eyewitness accounts Hitler rebelled against Catholicism at a very young age, refusing Communion, and the Sacrament of Reconciliation. When he left home he ended all involvement with the Church and never retured. He was never a willing paricipant. If he could have ever been considered a member of the Catholic Church, he had excommunicated himself as a teenager. If he had portrayed himself in later life as a Catholic for political purposes, perhaps there would have been a need to officially excommunicate him. But he was't a Catholic, so what would be the point? He was a stated athiest who persecuted the Church in Germany and Eastern Europe.

23 posted on 01/12/2010 5:46:45 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: Karliner
Well, let me put it another way. If he didn’t even excommunicate Hitler from the Catholic Church and Hitler is still Catholic then his alleged sainthood is slightly tainted by just doing nothing. Heck, he lived THROUGH what Hitler did to millions and no excommunication.

Read the whole thread. Hitler was not still a Catholic.

30 posted on 01/12/2010 6:57:24 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does)
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To: Karliner
Hitler rejected Catholicism as a teenager and as an adult condemned Christianity in general as a "weak, gutter Jewish religion".

Not only that, he created his own "German Church" that was mostly Nordic paganism. He was a believer in the occult and all sorts of Satanic nonsense.

He was no more Catholic than my cat.

36 posted on 01/12/2010 8:04:38 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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