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To: vladimir998
Adolf Hitler left the Catholic faith when he was a young man, and was, in fact, excommunicated twice.


594 posted on 03/15/2008 8:10:51 PM PDT by Howdy there (They’re selling something I’m not buying.)
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To: Howdy there

Talking to a bishop is not the same thing as humbly placing yourself under his spiritual care.

Hitler was much more interested in killing clergy than in believing what they preached.


599 posted on 03/15/2008 8:17:33 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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To: Howdy there
So far you've posted pictures demonstrating that some Catholic bishops shook Hitler's hand.

So did at least one English Prime Minister. So? He was chief of state. FDR shook Stalin's hand, too, and Stalin murdered more people than Hitler by far.

And you've posted a picture showing that some Catholic clerics gave the (legally obligatory) "German greeting".

Yep, that's true also.

I'll go you one better. There were Catholic priests who were ardent, firm, convinced, Jew-hating NAZIS.

But to claim that that somehow indicts Pius XII is to fall into the fallacy of false generalization.

602 posted on 03/15/2008 8:22:42 PM PDT by Campion
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To: Howdy there

Pacelli as Pope never met with Hitler.


619 posted on 03/15/2008 8:49:32 PM PDT by Titanites
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