PRIMATE OF THE THIRD REICH?
Posted on 05/31/2009 5:33:51 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Ping.
“Last October Archbishop Waltz was the object of a demonstration in front of the palace in which a crowd chorused “Away with Waltz!”
Reminds me of the recent AIG thing.
PRIMATE OF THE THIRD REICH?
Was ACORN around back then?
This was a time when Germany was trying to reduce the influence of the Catholic Church.
The Nazis would make accusations against the Church and then take actions restricting them based on those false accusations.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
No, but that was definitely the tree from which that acorn fell.
Hey! Just like Congress! "You are destroying the climate with your pollutin' ways so we must regulate your behavior and take all your money."
It is straight from the socialist playbook.
Ping. This may be of interest.
Hmmm, the future in Connecticut?
Thanks for the ping! I was going to ping Goodusername to this, but as usual, you are way ahead of me :o)
Hitler wanted to kidnap the Pope, but was talked out of it by the commandant of the Italian theater.
"Early this month he was notified that the palace would be renovated and taken over as an office for the Nazis. At the same time the German secret police took over the Franciscan Monastery in Salsburg and various Catholic orphanages were turned over to the Hitler Youth.
"Josef Buerckel, Reich Commissioner for Austria has accused Catholics of political attacks against the Nazis and in several speeches has warned that the Hitler government would not permit the church to have other than spiritual leadership in the new Germany.
"Following such attacks by Herr Buerckel, six priests were arrested in Vienna and accused of complicity in demonstrations against the Nazi regime. At that time Archbishop Waitz was barred from visits to schools, because, it was alleged, he had supported monks who had opposed the occupation of the Salzburg monastery."
I'd call such events as these quite important, because they form part of the the background to the Church's rather limp Holocaust responses. Here we see the Nazis kicking the archbishop in his teeth, while arresting some of his priests, and exactly what did the Church do or say about it?
If the Church would not even vigorously defend itself, how much defense could it expect to offer hapless Jews?
“Defense” is of no value in a tyranny that respects only power and holds due process in contempt. What the Church was able to give, and did give, was aid.
But....but....I thought Catholics and Nazis got along just splendid.
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WOW! It looks like history IS repeating itself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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