(Ron) God & Absolute Monarchs
Helen Willis hhiwater@BRIGHT.NET
Thu, 01 Oct 1998 12:16:32 -0700 (00907287392, 3613D510.2F00@bright.net)
Brian Dean wrote:
>
> BRIDEAN
> Although this does not relate to Bible errancy I will forward this
> AND ONLY THIS post to the list since I am curious as to the
> counter-argument for this argument.
>
> >Berne
> >
> >To the best of my knowledge, Hitler was not condemned by the RC church,
> >until
> >after he was defeated. Perhaps the RC church was concerned about
> Hitlers
> >power, as he had them surrounded.
> >
> >
> RON
> The Church does not normally condemn people. They may excommunicate
> someone, usually if they are a religious leader or someone who is likely
> to mislead the faithful. In Hitler's case the pope issued an encyclical
> letter (Mit Brendener Sorg if my spelling is correct. It's available on
> the internet) which condemned racism and the views of the Nazi party.
> Though Hitler and the Nazis were not specifically addressed it was
> obvious who it referred to as it was issued in German. The Catholic
> Church hid more Jews and helped more Jews to escape than any other
> organization. The Vatican and many monaseries, convents, etc were packed
> with refugees. At one point the Nazis had developed a plan to assasinate
> Pope Pius XII, though it was never pulled off. There was an article in
> Newsweek several months back which sought to set the record straight.
> The movie "Scarlet and Black" (?) starring Gregory Peck I beleive, is
> about the efforts to deceive the Nazis in Rome and the hiding of
> refugees in the Vatican. Critics are that much more hypocritical as the
> US and european nations refused to even admit there was a problem. The
> US would only categorize Jews as Russian, or Polish, or whatever their
> nationality, refusing to grant them refugee status. The Church was the
> only government that recognized the problem and, at great risk, helped
> these people to escape.
HELEN:
You are not going to claim a better response from the church than from
Sweden and the great Danes are you?
Helen
hhiwater@bright.net