Let me show you how this works:
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Let me show you how this works:
The Bishops of Germany excommunicated all Nazis in February of 1931 and all German Catholics were told that they could not vote for a Nazi in the 1932 election. “Belonging to the National Socialist Party of Hitler is irreconcilable with the Catholic Conscience.” Osservatore Romano, 11 October 1930. Hitler and the Nazis received the votes of protestants while the Catholic vote went to Hindenburg, on average nearly 70%, who was a staunch protestant.
While a ferendae sententiae excommunication of Hitler is what some argued for, a latae sententiae excommunication is just as valid. History has shown us that ferendae sententiae excommunications rarely produce the desired result and often cause much greater harm than the intended correction of the individual in question. Learn your history and find out what resulted from the excommunications of people like Louis IV of Bavaria, Queen Elizabeth I, Napoleon and his Grand Armee. At the time the fear was that if Pius XII excommunicated Hitler ferendae sententiae, as he wanted to, then even more Jews as well as Catholics and even protestants would have been exterminated.
One need look no further than the words of Marcus Melchior, former chief rabbi of Denmark and holocaust survivor, to understand what would have resulted when he said “it is an error to think that Pius XII could have had any influence whatsoever on the brain of a madman. If the Pope had spoken out, Hitler would probably have massacred more than six million Jews and perhaps ten times ten million Catholics, if he had the power to do so.”
“The Myth of Hitler’s Pope” Rabbi David G. Dalin, p 78.
You should also learn what effect the pastoral letter concerning the treatment of the Jews that was distributed by the Dutch Bishops in July of 1942 had on the Nazis. It made things much worse if you were Jewish, or Catholic for that matter. When the Bishop of Munster, Clemens August von Galen, wanted to condemn the Nazis for their treatment of the Jews, local Jewish leaders implored him to remain quiet. In addition, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, the Catholic, German military officer who played a major role in the attempted assassination of Hitler, sought and received permission from the Bishop of Berlin, Konrad Graf von Preysing, to try and kill Hitler.
In light of your deficient knowledge of this topic I wonder if you would make the same demands of the government to release all of Roosevelt’s musings, along with Cordell Hull and the southern Democrats who threatened to withhold support of FDR in the 1940 election, on what his rationale was for preventing the SS St. Louis, which was loaded with Jewish refugees, from docking at an American port. Many of those people people ended up dying in the Holocaust. You might also be interested to learn why FDR didn’t bomb all the rail lines leading to the death camps.
Lest you or any other member of the revisionist “Hitler was a Catholic” cabal here have any remaining doubts I want you to take into consideration his own words and then tell me with a straight face that the Fuhrer indeed remained a Catholic.
“The Third Reich does not desire a modus vivendi with the Catholic Church, but rather its destruction with lies and dishonor, in order to make room for a German Church in which the German race will be glorified.”
“Hitler, the War and the Pope”, Ronald J. Rychlak, p. 93.