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To: ibme
They signed the concordat with the Catholic Church.

So what?

The Concordat of 1933 was simply an expansion of existing concordats between the Vatican and the German states of Bavaria, Baden, and Prussia. The Vatican had more than a century of concordats behind it at this point (starting with Napoleon in 1814); by the death of Pius XI in 1939 there were 41 separate concordats on the books.

A concordat is nothing more than an attempt to negotiate a legal document to ensure the Church's ability to function lawfully and unmolested with its just liberties intact. Your attempt to portray the 1933 concordat as evidence of sinister Catholic-Nazi complicity is a lie.

43 posted on 03/25/2002 8:50:00 AM PST by Romulus
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To: Romulus
The Vatican was very much involved at the end of WW2, in "arranging" transit of Nazis out of Germany to safe havens in South America.
44 posted on 03/25/2002 9:13:04 AM PST by cynicom
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To: Romulus
Didn't...uh...the Nazis sign an agreement with Britain as well? The so-called "Peace in our time" paper waved by the appeasing PM? Does that...uh...make the Brits pro-Nazi? Then there was the Stalin-Hitler pact. Not to mention the financial backing of the Nazis by American financiers and bankers. Seems like the Nazis were cutting deals with EVERYBODY? Shall we include the whole world as responsible for the holocaust?
55 posted on 03/25/2002 10:30:22 AM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Romulus
Romulus...

The Vatican and OSS were working together to move Nazis from Germany to Italy and thence to South American countries. This has been written about many times in books and news reports. I am surprised anyone could have missed it.

57 posted on 03/25/2002 10:37:56 AM PST by cynicom
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To: Romulus
A concordat is nothing more than an attempt to negotiate a legal document to ensure the Church's ability to function lawfully and unmolested with its just liberties intact

They where in the same bed together while the Jews where being murdered.

from Catholic Encyclopedia

...just as all other laws when properly promulgated bind the people, so concordats, inasmuch as they take on the form of civil laws are binding on the citizens of the country, and particularly the state officials; so much so that any infringement of them is equivalent to a violation of the civil laws.

66 posted on 03/25/2002 11:20:10 AM PST by ibme
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