Meet the Bishop Who Stood Up to the Nazis COMMENTARY on THE LION OF MÜNSTER

National Catholic Register ^ | APR. 22, 2017 | Charles Lewis

[vladimir998]

In Germany, in 1933, two men came to power...

The first man, of course, was Adolf Hitler...

The other man was Clemens August Graf von Galen, a towering giant of a man who later in 1933 was named bishop of Münster. Under the Nazis, he battled racial bias, the Nazi corruption of Church teaching and most notably the state-sanctioned program of euthanasia to kill off so-called “useless eaters” and burdens on the state.

[vladimir998]

Should be a good book - and one much needed to correct mistaken notions about the Catholic Church in the Second World War.

THE LION OF MÜNSTER: The Bishop Who Roared Against the Nazis, by Father Daniel Utrecht (Tan Books, 2016), 404 pages, $29.95

[\/\/ayne]

Now that the German Catholic Church gets so much funding from the State could such a lion ever rise again?

[exbrit]

Thanks for posting, just ordered. Should be a good read.

[STJPII]

White Rose movie....very good. Highly recommend.

[floozy22]

The first man, of course, was Adolf Hitler, whose vision was a new society of supermen devoid of any deviance

"devoid of any deviance" - indeed; though primarily devoid of any humanity. They were, simply, inhuman monsters, perversions of actual human beings. And so are their heirs.

[Jacquerie]

Great post.