Posted on 06/25/2011 1:35:08 PM PDT by NYer
Catholic ping!
They were all very special people. We need more of them.
The Nazi regime found them guilty of defeatism, malice, favoring the enemy and listening to enemy broadcasts.Precursor to the Fairness Doctrine and the Net Neutrality Act.
Several Wehrmacht officers were dismissed using that term.
No wonder they lost.
How long before those foul, despicable haters show up on this thread to post images of book covers and condemn all Catholics as being Nazi collaborators. There is a special place in hell reserved for them.
You forgot to mention that those haters are also cowardly, stupid, poorly read, and unwittingly serve Satan.
Blessed Hermann Lange,
Blessed Eduard Müller
and Blessed Johannes Prassek
This is a rare occasion in which I will have to disagree with you, if only partially. I am not so sure they are all unwittingly serving satan. The rest of what you said is spot on.
Brave men with utter faith in Christ
Let's focus on these holy men who endured to the end -- 3 Catholic and 1 Lutheran (in this story -- though there are quite a few else)
We thank the Lord for them, they are heroes for us all
Ping!
Eve of the 481st Anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession--VERY SIGNIFCANT timing!
Lutheran Ping!
Glory to the Holy Trinity!
Since 1978 in the US Lutheran Vespers has included what is essentially the great Litany (Ektenia) from the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, including the petitions for all the faithful departed and the calling to mind of all the saints (although not normally enumerated by name).
“They were all very special people. We need more of them”
Well said. Indeed we do.
We should never forget the number of Lutheran priests who did not follow the direction of society in the 30s and 40s and who were persecuted for their faith like Karl Friedrich Stellbrink, KArl Barth, Max Lackmann etc.
CC
When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, igniting the Second World War, a group of German conspirators were already plotting a coup d'état; over the next six years, there were as many as fifteen assassination attempts against Hitler. One of the co-conspirators, a double-agent who smuggled information about the plots to the Allies, was the young German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. In the late 1930s he wrote about the necessity of "risking" peace and "daring" a loving presence to others words which seem to fly in the face of his later justification of assassination. But Bonhoeffer formulated his theology and ethics in the crucible of a long and ultimately fatal struggle with the Nazi regime in Germany. His story is a fascinating window onto the dilemmas of twentieth-century ethics and spirituality.
Bonhoeffer's work came to full fruition only after his death. His efforts and his writings on behalf of the international ecumenical movement laid the groundwork for post-war inter-faith dialogue. His insistence on the importance of an active response to Christ's Sermon on the Mount a call to social justice inspired many of the world's great civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr., Vaclav Havel and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. And finally, his brave and revolutionary concept of a "religionless Christianity" has helped Christian theology turn toward uncertain vistas of the future. It is an idea which exposes the vitality and relevance of faith in a world, as Bonhoeffer put it, "come of age."
http://www.bonhoeffer.com/bon2.htm
Blessed priest-martyrs, pray for us!
Is that still a problem here? I used to be a member a few years ago, and it got to a point that I was just so frustrated with all the over the top Catholic hate that I stopped bothering to visit.
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