Adolf Hitler left the Catholic faith when he was a young man, and was, in fact, excommunicated twice.
Well, he just needs a prayer to help him out of Purgatory, and he’s still 100% Catholic, right?
“While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of respectable people we have restored their faith in their religion and in their priests. The union of the Evangelical Church in a single Church for the whole Reich, the Concordat with the Catholic Church, these are but milestones on the road which leads to the establishment of a useful relation and a useful co operation between the Reich and the two Confessions.”
“I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.”
Adolf Hitler
When, and by what action, do you think these excommunications occurred?
Twice???
Did the first one not take?
Other than the passive "excommunication" of Latia Sentia--by which someone's unrepented of and unconfessed mortal sins excommunicate them in the eyes of God, when and where was Hitler ever formally excommunicated by a Roman Catholic authority?
I daresay since the center of popular Nazism was Bavaria--and a majority of the SS were Austrian, more self-professed Roman Catholics followed him than Lutherans. Of course none of this makes Roman Catholicism the source of Hitler's evil.
Calling Luther the source of Nazism....something very few reputable historians have ever claimed.....this kind of blatant Protestant bashing really should stop.
Excommunicated twice? I would think once does the job.