[Antoninus]

A mortal sin not to vote? An eternity in hell because one didn't go to the polls?

Tell me, sinky, would a German Catholic who voted for the Nazis in 1934, knowing full-well their rabidly anti-semitic platform, have committed a mortal sin?

[sinkspur]

Tell me, sinky, would a German Catholic who voted for the Nazis in 1934, knowing full-well their rabidly anti-semitic platform, have committed a mortal sin?

Did the German bishops condemn Hitler in 1934? Did Pius XI?

Germans obviously supported Hitler, Catholics included, not because of his anti-semitism, but because he instilled some sort of strange Aryan pride in them.

I couldn't possibly judge whether a German Catholic in 1934 who voted for Hitler committed a mortal sin, and neither can anybody else.