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Palling around with Hitler? I suggest you get familiar with the history of the Third Reich. The Church made a concordat with the Hitler government, trying to get along with Hitler by agreeing, for one thing, to accept the abolition of the Center Party. The agreement lasted about as long as other agreements made by Hitler. It was mad to protect Catholic education in Germany, and within two years he Nazis were busy taking over education as they did every institution. All kids were forced into Nazi programs. When priests and others protested, they were locked up. Then they started to take over Catholic publications, and to discredit the priesthood by accusing them the way your friend is, of sexual crimes. Yeah, real pals, the Nazis were.

I lived through those times and there is much more than that in the Pope collaboration with the Axis powers with his supported Mussolini's invasions of Abyssinia Somaliland and later Albania - but it was simply an illustration that throwing the names of dictators like Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, which were all fully supported by the Pope at that time in relation to the Catholic church is not such a bright idea.

Strangely enough I was in Somaliland when the UN at Lake Success handed it back to the Italians. Big time riots.