Is it a Co-incidence that a NAZI could reach the highest position in the catholic church, or are the two?

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Answer 1

Hmmm, now that you mention it, they both used torture as a means of persuasion. And Pope Pius XII must have been a real piece of work.

Answer 2

Isreal Zolli held a high position in Rome during WW II, but he was not a nazi. He was a Jewish Rabbi who had a good view of the events in Rome. He became a Catholic. You can read about his conversion here:
http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=5075

Why would a Jewish Rabbi become a Catholic if the Catholic Church was guilty of collaborating with the nazis? Try and think for yourself, Julie, instead of letting those hate mongering bigots think for you.

There is a photo being circulated in hate sites showing Vatican officials signing a treaty with Nazi diplomats. But no context is given with the photo.

Pope Pius XI signed a concord with Germany to secure the rights of Christians in the country, because the Vatican recognized what a threat Hitler and his henchmen were to religious liberty. This was not an endorsement of the Nazi Party or its philosophy (it may be remembered that America also had treaties with Germany before the war broke out). Your hate cultists will never tell you that, Julie.

When Hitler went back on the deal and began abrogating the civil rights of Christians, the Vatican responded by issuing the only encyclical ever written in German (Mit Brennender Sorge or "With Burning Anxiety"), concerning the horrors of the National Socialist German state. This encyclical was smuggled into Germany (it would never have been allowed in, had the Nazis known it was coming) and read at all the parishes on the same day.

The Encyclopedia of Catholic History (by Matthew Bunson) notes: "the encyclical was a strong denunciation of Nazism, noting that the Nazis had broken several points of the concordat and were actively involved in anti-Catholic and anti-Christian programs, such as the removal of the OT [Old Testament] from schools and the promotion of the so-called German National Church. The encyclical was read from the pulpit of every German church on March 21, 1937" (p. 563).
http://www.cin.org/users/james/questions/q058.htm

Here is an article written by Rabbi David G. Dalin, Ph.D., (so you can't claim Catholic bias) that talks about all those hateful books that have sprung up in the past few years, with all those false accusations about Catholics and nazis. http://www.catholicleague.org/research/history_as_bigotry.htm

Get an education. Brows this:
http://www.catholicleague.org/pius/framemain.htm

Here is evidence proving Hitler wanted to assassinate the Pope: http://www.catholicleague.org/05press_releases/quarter%201/050118_hitlersplot.htm

It's too bad those hate mongering bigots who propagate such lies can't hide all the editorials found in newspapers back in WWII written by Jews thanking the Catholic Church for saving thousands of Jews from the holocaust. But they don't have to, they can count on peoples ignorance.

Answer 3

The Pope is not and never has been a Nazi. He unfortunately was born and grew in a country ruled by the Nazi party.

Do you think that every draftee in the Nazi German Army was a Nazi? If you do then you are very naive.

Just hope and pray that you do not have to make a decision to be executed or live and fight for a government in which you do not believe.

I know of some US soldiers that joined up eagerly to fight in Afghanistan after the World Trade Center attack. But now they have to fight in Iraq, a war that they do not think is just.

You and I live in a very different world that the Pope did in 1940s Germany. I suggest you do not be so quick to judge others.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

The Pope was never a Nazi.

He was raised during the second world war in Germany, where the Nazi party was in rule at the time. He was part of the Hitler youth, as was all youth in Germany at the time. That in itself does NOT mean that he was a Nazi. If it did, then all German youth at the end of WWII would be considered to be Nazi's. That would be like saying that because the KKK was in power in the south at the end of the US Civil war, that all southerners are KKK.

Answer 5

pope benedict xvi is not and never has been a nazi. on the contrary, he comes from a family with strong anti-nazi sentiments, partly because they felt nazism conflicted with the catholic faith, and partly because one of his cousins, who had down syndrome, fell victim to the nazi euthanasia programme in 1941. he only joined the hitler youth because it bad become a legal requirement in 1936 and his family would thus have got into very serious trouble if he hadn't joined. according to his biographer he was an unenthusiastic member who never attended meetings, and i'm quite inclined to believe that knowing of numerous similar stories. at the age of 16 he was drafted into the auxilliary air force, at the age of 18 into the army. at no point did he distinguish himself in these positions. given all these facts, calling the current pope a nazi is like calling people like my grandfather nazis, proud opponents to the regime who were drafted into the army and had to obey because otherwise they and their families would have had to suffer terrible, possibly lethal consequences.

Answer 6

Pope Benedict 16th was never a Nazi.

Before the war, all boys in every high school were FORCED to enter the Hitler Youth. When Ratzinger realized what the Hitler youth had become, he deserted it.

Your presumptuous question is insulting to Catholics, but you are excused if you are prejudiced and raised in anti-Catholic bigotry.

I challenge you to read the Pope's first encyclical, and see how "nazi like" it is.

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20051225_deus-caritas-est_en.html

But anti-Catholic bigots won't read it. They hate truth, and love lies.

Answer 7

St. Paul helped his fellow Jews kill Stephen, the first martyr of the church, yet Paul became one of the greatest apostles and actually wrote much of the new testament scriptures.

Why shouldn't God take a yound German and make him the leader of his church on earth?

God works miracles all the time.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone!

Answer 8

My understanding is that Benedict was a member of the Hitler Youth, not a member of the Nazi party.

Answer 9

The Nazi party was founded on christian dogma.
Not just catholic.

Answer 10

Unlike your family, the pope is not a nazi.