[Alex Murphy]

So Brian - your core argument here is that anyone who is not Catholic must be an active, faithful and observant Protestant? And what happened to the Nazi Party before 1932? How did they lose the support of the Catholics?

A book published earlier this year sheds some light on the question of religion and the Nazis. In "Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism" (Oxford University Press), Derek Hastings shows how in the early years there was indeed a strong Catholic element in the Nazi movement. He also affirms that there was a sharp discrepancy between the nature of the Nazi regime in power in the 1930s and 1940s and the early movement in Munich in the years following World War I....
-- from the Zenit article Catholics and the Nazis

[Brian Kopp DPM]

So Brian - your core argument here is that anyone who is not Catholic must be an active, faithful and observant Protestant?

Heck no. Not at all. But the idea that Catholics supported Hitler is one of those urban legends that must be laid to rest, alongside the BS that the Pope did nothing to help the Jews during WWII.