My sister and her ex-husband have had an abortion, at his behest, yet both are permitted to attend the catholic church in their small town where everyone knows everyone else's business.One piece of business people do not know is what they may or may not have told their pastor in the confessional. One can repent of a sin and have the ban of excommunication lifted.
Hitler must have sure cried himself to sleep the night he heard about this big ol' hairy ex-communication.
If people have abandoned the Church and completely renounced their Catholicism, like Hitler did, an excommunication will obviously not bother them the slightest bit.
Hitler never attended a Mass from the time he was 16 to the time he was put down - why would he be upset if he was not welcome to the sacraments if he never even sought them?
Be serious.
If people have abandoned the Church and completely renounced their Catholicism, like Hitler did, an excommunication will obviously not bother them the slightest bit. Wasn't that my point? I ignored my baptism and catholic education for 30 years, and I have said plenty of less-than-complimentary things about the RC faith. It didn't get me off the roles at my hometown church. Do you have reference to some piece of paper in which Hitler renounced his affiliation? Do you have reference to some piece of paper in which the RC church ex-communicated Hitler?
Hitler never attended a Mass from the time he was 16 to the time he was put down - why would he be upset if he was not welcome to the sacraments if he never even sought them?
That wasn't the question before the house. The question before the house was: what was the source of his anti-jewish sentiments?
Be serious.
Maybe if you'd read the argument, you'd have a responsive comment. Lest we forget:
A picture of Madonna and child, by Adolf Schickelgruber. One of many laborously detailed paintings of catholic religeous icons.
Hitler leaving the Marine church at Wilhelmshaven 