Soon after his promotion as Secretariat of State in 1930, Pacelli began negotiations with Germany regarding the Concordat which has sparked much controversy over the years pertaining to the motives of the Vatican.
Pacelli - Concordat Negotiations With Germany
Plenty of time now isn't there?
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Contrary to popular belief, Pope Pius XII, supported by the Vatican, was consistently opposed to National Socialism throughout his entire career; what began as a determined quest for peace as Papal Nuncio, eventually evolved into the outspoken denunciation of Hitler’s growing Nazi regime in the late 1930s. From the commencement of his nunciature in Germany in 1917, Pius XII, then known as Eugenio Pacelli, worked tirelessly towards peace, ultimately concluding twenty- seven concordats within Prussia, Germany, and Bavaria. 1921, he began warning Germans about the dangers of National Socialism, delivering forty out of forty- four addresses clearly and openly criticizing aspects of this emerging ideology which Pacelli was convinced would result in the harmful indoctrinating of a once strong and proud society.
Throughout the late 1920s and early 1930s, the Vatican shared Pacelli’s negative views of Nazism and actively condemned the political party with speeches, as well as statements in the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. On the twenty-fifth of March, 1928, the Holy Office issued a decree that “…the Holy See is obligated to protect the Jewish people against unjust vexations and, just as it reprobates all rancour and conflicts between peoples, it particularly condemns…the hatred that commonly goes by the name of anti-Semitism.”
Two years later, the Vatican and Eugenio Pacelli published two articles n l’Osservatore Romano which emphatically expressed the disparity between Catholicism and National Socialism and that “belonging to the National Socialist Party of Hitler [was] irreconcilable with the Catholic conscience.”
Soon after his promotion as Secretariat of State in 1930, Pacelli began negotiations with Germany regarding the Concordat which has sparked much controversy over the years pertaining to the motives of the Vatican.
As you note, Pacelli began negotiations with Germany in 1930. That was not with the Nazis. Hitler didn't come into power until 1933 and negotiations began with the Nazis in April of that year, which is what I noted.
No correction required.