After 60 long years and countless witnesses and hard evidence for his evil, why hasn't the Vatican excommunicated the Roman Catholic leader Adolf Hitler?
Under Papal Bull Sane Considerante (1317/8) issued by Pope John XXII (which has never been rescinded) permits for deceased people to be found guilty of heresy after the fact and to be excommunicated, including all their property confiscated. Tens of thousands of people over the past seven hundred years have been found guilty and excommunicated under this standing law of the Catholic Church.
So why not Hitler? There is absolutely no question that Hitler was baptized and confirmed as a full Roman Catholic. Therefore why has the church refused to excommunicate him, by its own long standing laws?
2007-03-18 00:28:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Vatican was very supportive of the Nazi party.
After the end of the second world war. the Church helped hundreds of Nazi dignitaries escape to South America.
Check a history book.... Excommunication is not on the agenda...
2007-03-18 00:34:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Because just being baptized Catholic does not make you one. He was not a practicing Catholic. He did not stand up and say he was Catholic and what he was doing was okay as a Catholic.
The Church excommunicates people who are heretics...this means they go against God and/or the Church all the while professing to be true Catholics.
Hitler did not do that. Just because someone was baptized Catholic (as many in R&S can attest to) it does not make them Catholic in any way shape or form.
According to what I've read, Hitler had Jewish blood in him as well...it's not necessary for the Jewish church to make a statement against Hitler is it? To denounce him as a Jew? I think the same goes for the Catholic church.
No one in their right mind would ever think that Hitler was a practicing and faithful Catholic.
2007-03-18 01:03:47 · answer #2 · answered by Misty 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your answer is in your question. People are excommunicated for heresy, not sin. Heresy is when someone teaches something as Catholic doctrine that is not Catholic doctrine. If I were to teach that the Catholic Church believes that salvation is through works alone, I would be guilty of heresy.
Hitler never taught anything as Catholic doctrine that was not true. Yes, he was very evil, but he never taught heresy.
2007-03-18 02:58:30 · answer #3 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Vatican was supportive of the Nazi regime because they saw it a way to bring back to life the Holy Roman Empire.
I'll see if I can find the New York Times article published shortly after the war, that exposed the findings of the Allies when they got to Berlin.
2007-03-18 00:40:26 · answer #4 · answered by rangedog 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
comparable as your question on Stalin. he's lifeless so removing him from the sacraments is futile and heresy isn't dealt with that way. you're questioning of anathematization. those issues are performed to deliver the wayward lower back to the flock. And the Church has no skill to confiscate something. i might desire to work out you and what military confiscate something Il Duce or Uncle Joe had.
2016-10-18 23:48:40 · answer #5 · answered by fanelle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler denounced the church because they wouldn't support him. Maybe they think that's enough. I'm not in the Vatican so I can't say why. Nobody can.
2007-03-18 00:31:54 · answer #6 · answered by Becca 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hitler was not a Roman Catholic leader. he denounced the Church because they would not help him
2007-03-18 00:33:47 · answer #7 · answered by Angel Eyes 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well,being baptized or confirmed does not make one a Christian,and Hitler was not one.His writings and personal beliefs confirm that he was not one.
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2007-03-18 00:34:18 · answer #8 · answered by Serena 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
because they were secretly funding his plight. it's all a cospiracy.
2007-03-18 00:36:37 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋