Um, maybe because they claim to be Catholic? Not much point in a public declaration that someone is hereby separated from the Church, when he has always made it clear that he wants nothing to do with the Church.
That’s the kind of moral evasion I would expect from Ford motor company, Bayer, etc. The church has a higher duty to loudly oppose evil. Hitler was an altar boy at some point. Several of his cohorts had been catholics too. The church was aware that many catholics had fallen into error by supporting the nazis. They did wrong by not throwing all their moral weight into the fight. There’s no excuse for them not clearly stating that if you are a member of the nazi our communist partyparty, you are excommunicated. Anything else is papal bull, an evasion.
The way the church today is clear on abortion is an example of how they should have acted back then.
That’s the kind of moral evasion I would expect from Ford motor company, Bayer, etc. The church has a higher duty to loudly oppose evil. Hitler was an altar boy at some point. Several of his cohorts had been catholics too. The church was aware that many catholics had fallen into error by supporting the nazis. They did wrong by not throwing all their moral weight into the fight. There’s no excuse for them not clearly stating that if you are a member of the nazi our communist partyparty, you are excommunicated. Anything else is papal bull, an evasion.
The way the church today is clear on abortion is an example of how they should have acted back then.