[sinkspur]

And if Williamson is a nut (on this issue at least), then so was Pope Pius XI and virtually every bishop in the world at that time.

I'm trying to remember. Was Pius XI as concerned about the rise of the Third Reich as he was about what girls wore in the gymnasium?

[Maximilian]

I'm trying to remember. Was Pius XI as concerned about the rise of the Third Reich as he was about what girls wore in the gymnasium?

This kind of anti-Catholic slander is beneath you, sinkspur. I hope this will refresh your memory: he wrote the encyclical "Mit Brennender Sorge" (With Burning Sorrow) regarding the Nazis, long before it was fashionable to be against them, in fact a year and a half before the Allies declared "Peace in our time" after signing their treaty with Hitler at Munich.

Mit Brennender Sorge

"ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XI ON THE CHURCH AND THE GERMAN REICH"
Given at the Vatican on Passion Sunday, March 14, 1937.

[ultima ratio]

"I'm trying to remember. Was Pius XI as concerned about the rise of the Third Reich as he was about what girls wore in the gymnasium?"

You're showing your ignorance. Not only was he concerned, he wrote an encyclical warning against the rise of Nazism and calling it racist and unChristian--long before the rest of the world had caught on.