Why was Hitler never excommunicated from the Catholic Church?

Question

And why excommunicate those who acted to help an 11-year-old rape victim? (see link)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/colombia/story/0,,1861532,00.html

I categorized this as "Other" because it's too disgusting even for the "Religion" category.

@ M B: Let's see now. The church says not a word about excommunicating the rapist. Not a word of condolence to an innocent little girl robbed of her childhood. And it never acted to remove Hitler from its midst (and btw, Hitler always considered himself a Catholic, he said so on more than one occasion). As for "two wrongs don't make a right," stop reciting cliches for a moment and ask yourself, how is it wrong to protect an eleven-year-old from the dangers of pregnancy?

And _I'm_ the one who's "out of line"??? Well excuse me for utterly rejecting your inhuman reasoning and inhumane morality.

Answer 1

Wow, that is curious. And why is it that they do not excommunicate priests that molest little children? They just reassign them to an unsuspecting parish where the abuse can start all over again.
A little double standard action going on.
This is why I left religion all together. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth more often than not.

Answer 2

The Catholic Church is the only consistent voice defending the unborn. And if its a country where the majority of people are Catholic then the excommunication serves the purpose of warning Catholics about the seriousness of the sin of abortion.
Rape is also a sin but two wrongs dont make a right.
I have heard women who work with women who have had abortions and the emotional wounds are lifelong. Often they consider suicide on the anniversary of the abortion. Not on the anniversary of the pregnancy.

Comparing the Catholic church's views on abortion to its response to Hitler is way out of line.

Answer 3

I am neither for or against the Catholic Church. In its history the Catholic Church has changed with history. I was not aware that Hitler was Catholic. Historically Germany was predominantly Protestant and not Catholic. I don't think the Catholic Church had much control over the Nazi's. So now with abortion more common the Church would rather focus on these little matters rather than tackle the issues of overpopulation and poverty in predominantly Catholic nations.

Answer 4

Automatic excommunication happens when Catholics commit certain offensives. This happens as soon as the offence is committed.

Adolf Hitler committed the following offenses resulting in automatic excommunication:
- Apostasy - the formal renunciation of one's religion. Hitler specifically rejected the Catholic Church, as well as Christianity in general. He described himself as "a complete pagan.”
- Heresy - a doctrine in theology, religion, philosophy, or politics at variance with those of the Catholic Church. Nazism is definitely heretical to Christianity.

There was no reason for the Catholic Church to excommunicate Hitler. He did it all by himself.

With love in Christ.

Answer 5

Hitler became shown below protest, and as quickly as he left homestead he did no longer attend Mass or partake in any of the Sacraments. He excommunicated himself so there became no want for the Church to do it. human beings stop being Catholic continuously. we don't formally excommunicate them because of the fact that they do it by ability of distinctive characteristic of now no longer being in communion.

Answer 6

The Catholic Church was primarily concerned about its own survival, and as a result was too intimidated to oppose Hitler. In that regard, it seemed more concerned about maintaining its organization, and demonstrated very little in the way of principle, remaining silent in the face of the worst genocide in human history.

Answer 7

answering ur question:

Why hitler never...?
--> coz at that time, anti-semitism is so strong people just think it's common to "hate" jews.

Why excommunicate....?
--> coz [catholic] church believe that we don't have the right to take other people's soul, even a small-tiny-8 weeks embryo considered a person with soul.
[just as a side note, it WAS illegal for midwives to give drugs to woman in labour, to relieve the pain, since it's not according to god's "statement".]

Answer 8

Yes, enough said, The best thing to come out of the Catholic Church was "Father Ted"

Answer 9

Because the catholic church helped to kill the Jews , can a kingdom divided against itself still stand

Answer 10

There was no need for the Church to excommunicate Hitler. He left the Church on his own accord.