2006-09-23 12:28:41 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Adolf Hitler was raised in a Catholic family but left the Church early in life.
Automatic excommunication happens when Catholics commit certain offensives. This happens as soon as the offense 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.
2006-09-23 13:54:11 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hitler, although he was brought up and confirmed as a Catholic, had abandoned Christianity by the time he was in control of Germany.
Hitler hated the Catholic Church, and what most people don't realize, is that the second largest religious group next to the Jews to die in the holocaust were CATHOLICS.
Hitler wanted to kidnap the Pope. Here is proof:
HITLER’S PLOT TO KIDNAP POPE LEAVES SOME MUTE http://www.catholicleague.org/05press_releases/quarter%201/050118_hitlersplot.htm
several essays: http://www.catholicleague.org/pius/framemain.htm
2006-09-23 12:43:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
By his own writings and statements in public and private, he considered himself a Catholic, and the Church never censured or excommunicated him. Therefore technically he was Catholic. He even considered himself doing "God's Work" by enacting the Holocaust. It was some of his more promenent supporters who got deeply into the occult nonsense.
2006-09-23 12:31:49 · answer #3 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hitler was born into a nominal Catholic family who did not practice their faith. He lived his entire adult life as an atheist. Just shows what abandoning the true faith can do to a person.
2006-09-23 14:00:07 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was raised Roman Catholic
2006-09-23 13:23:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2006-09-23 12:32:18 · answer #6 · answered by SEOplanNOW.com 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
His family was and he was raised so, but he himself didn't believe in any form of christianity since he saw it as a Jewish plot to undermine the strength of Aryans.
If Hitler believed in anything, it was the impersonal workings of what he saw as historical forces and which he called "Providence". Strength, ruthlessness, lack of compassion to "inferior" races - show all these and "Providence" would ensure you win.
2006-09-23 13:26:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Adolph Hitler was indeed a Catholic.
(Just not a very good one.)
2006-09-23 12:50:13 · answer #8 · answered by Bob L 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is one of the most well-established facts of the last century, as is the RCC collaboration with the Nazis. The site below will be illuminating.
2006-09-23 12:33:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, he wanted to be a priest,but the arch bishop said he would be more useful as a political entity
2006-09-23 12:31:36 · answer #10 · answered by norm s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋