Comments on: Catholic Church compared to the Holocaust… http://www.lesliemarshallshow.com/catholic-church-compared-to-the-holocaust/ Radio Talk Show Host Leslie Marshall - The Only True Democracy on Talk Radio: Of, For, And By the People Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:52:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marilyn http://www.lesliemarshallshow.com/catholic-church-compared-to-the-holocaust/comment-page-1/#comment-201 Marilyn Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:25:55 +0000 http://www.lesliemarshallshow.com/?p=1160#comment-201 Wow! I just read one of your blogs.How incredible you are to take your stand for what is right. Hitler sent a delegation headed by von Papen to Rome to negotiate a concordat between the Nazi State and the Vatican. Pope Pius XI remarked to the German envoys how pleased he was that “the German Government now had at its head a man uncompromisingly opposed to Communism,” and on July 20, 1933, at an elaborate ceremony in the Vatican, Cardinal Pacelli (who was soon to become Pope Pius XII) signed the concordat. One historian writes: “The Concordat [with the Vatican] was a great victory for Hitler. It gave him the first moral support he had received from the outer world, and this from the most exalted source.” During the celebrations at the Vatican, Pacelli conferred on von Papen the high papal decoration of the Grand Cross of the Order of Pius. Winston Churchill, in his book The Gathering Storm, published in 1948, tells how von Papen further used “his reputation as a good Catholic” to gain church support for the Nazi takeover of Austria. In 1938, in honor of Hitler’s birthday, Cardinal Innitzer ordered that all Austrian churches fly the swastika flag, ring their bells, and pray for the Nazi dictator. By the end of 1933 (proclaimed a “Holy Year” by Pope Pius XI), Vatican support had become a major factor in Hitler’s push for world domination. However, popes have consistently refused to excommunicate the worst of war criminals, even when fellow Catholics have appealed for such action to be taken. For example, the Catholic Telegraph-Register of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., under the heading “Reared as Catholic but Violates Faith Says Cable to Pope,” reported: “An appeal has been made to Pius XII that Reichsfuehrer Adolph Hitler be excommunicated. . . . ‘Adolph Hitler,’ [the cable] read in part, ‘was born of Catholic parents, was baptized a Catholic, and was reared and educated as such.’” Yet Hitler was never excommunicated. Sincerely, Marilyn Wow! I just read one of your blogs.How incredible you are to take your stand for what is right.

Hitler sent a delegation headed by von Papen to Rome to negotiate a concordat between the Nazi State and the Vatican. Pope Pius XI remarked to the German envoys how pleased he was that “the German Government now had at its head a man uncompromisingly opposed to Communism,” and on July 20, 1933, at an elaborate ceremony in the Vatican, Cardinal Pacelli (who was soon to become Pope Pius XII) signed the concordat.

One historian writes: “The Concordat [with the Vatican] was a great victory for Hitler. It gave him the first moral support he had received from the outer world, and this from the most exalted source.” During the celebrations at the Vatican, Pacelli conferred on von Papen the high papal decoration of the Grand Cross of the Order of Pius. Winston Churchill, in his book The Gathering Storm, published in 1948, tells how von Papen further used “his reputation as a good Catholic” to gain church support for the Nazi takeover of Austria. In 1938, in honor of Hitler’s birthday, Cardinal Innitzer ordered that all Austrian churches fly the swastika flag, ring their bells, and pray for the Nazi dictator.

By the end of 1933 (proclaimed a “Holy Year” by Pope Pius XI), Vatican support had become a major factor in Hitler’s push for world domination.

However, popes have consistently refused to excommunicate the worst of war criminals, even when fellow Catholics have appealed for such action to be taken. For example, the Catholic Telegraph-Register of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A., under the heading “Reared as Catholic but Violates Faith Says Cable to Pope,” reported: “An appeal has been made to Pius XII that Reichsfuehrer Adolph Hitler be excommunicated. . . . ‘Adolph Hitler,’ [the cable] read in part, ‘was born of Catholic parents, was baptized a Catholic, and was reared and educated as such.’” Yet Hitler was never excommunicated.

Sincerely,

Marilyn

]]> By: Aaron Gosnell http://www.lesliemarshallshow.com/catholic-church-compared-to-the-holocaust/comment-page-1/#comment-160 Aaron Gosnell Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:44:32 +0000 http://www.lesliemarshallshow.com/?p=1160#comment-160 Dear Leslie,Great article.But what you neglected to mention was that one of the biggest genocides of the war,In fact the biggest genocide per size of the population of the country was committed by the Catholic Church in that area.It was in Croatia. The movement was the Ustashe movement.And those were the ones who the Catholic Church helped to escape after the war was over.That genocide was so bad that the Germans even feared these people and asked Hitler to protect the Serbs who were the primary victims of this genocide.This is a possible reason for the current strife over there.Clearly the Catholic Church has much to answer for. Dear Leslie,Great article.But what you neglected to mention was that one of the biggest genocides of the war,In fact the biggest genocide per size of the population of the country was committed by the Catholic Church in that area.It was in Croatia. The movement was the Ustashe movement.And those were the ones who the Catholic Church helped to escape after the war was over.That genocide was so bad that the Germans even feared these people and asked Hitler to protect the Serbs who were the primary victims of this genocide.This is a possible reason for the current strife over there.Clearly the Catholic Church has much to answer for.

]]>