
Since he has a lot of proximity with the new Pope, he would know--Benedict was in the Hitler Youth and volunteered for the Wermacht (Army). I don't have to tell you the title of Father Amorth's favorite movie. It gets-better: "According to secret Vatican documents recently released wartime pontiff Pope Pius XII attempted a "long-distance" exorcism of Hitler which failed to have any effect." Why didn't they just excommunicate him? Yes, Hitler (real name, Adolf Schickelgruber) was a Catholic who was never excommunicated. The fall of the Hollerzollen dynasty, and the abdication of the Kaiser left a power-vacuum. War-reparations, then the Great Depression made a fertile soil for National Socialism and Hitler. People were starving, people were desperate, looking for someone with solutions--any solutions. So much for the Devil. At one point, Hitler had entertained the idea of the priesthood.
What about Stalin (real name, Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili)? He had attempted training as a priest in the Eastern Orthodox Church, like Rasputin. He was expelled for insubordination, a trait he shared with Hitler. But, the cobbler's son couldn't fit-into the discipline of Orthodox monasticism, so he became a roadside-thief, and later a bank-robber for the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and the Bolsheviks after the faile

I read about this on Huffington Post and my visceral reaction was: "so did the devil possess the Vatican for looking the other way while Hitler liquidated the Jewish people in Europe? Was the Vatican possessed by the devil too?"
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Thanks Rob! I was baptised a Catholic, but have been lapsed ever-since. Most Europeans gave-up on the Church after WWII--they seem happier for it.
ReplyDeletePS: Your blog has some great political analysis, good stuff.
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