Should persons living under the Nazi regime have obeyed the secular law, attempted to withdraw from public life, or subverted the system and disobeyed the law when necessary in order to save the most lives?
What if those persons were confessing Catholics?
I admit dear Campion you may have got me on that one, and my example of the Spanish Inquisition was perhaps a poor one though was not Spain lead by a Catholic monarchy, so the fact that Rome participated in that Inquisition is no better or worse than confessing Catholics supporting a Nazis regime if you accept the fact that the Spanish Inquisition was more of a political witchhunt than a religious one....
since you and Cato are more well versed in this area, from my very limited reading, hasn't there been a tension between the Vatican and its relationship with various states or a blurring of the lines, sometimes the Vatican has been very independent, at other times it serves the ruling authority, at other times it appears to be the ruling authority, though it seems to me the first option is what the Vatican ought to be, and certainly is today......