Are the Catholics of the world upset that the pope is German? An ex-Nazi too?
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Some Catholics may be--but not GERMANY! Germany will soon rise to lead Europe into a "holy crusade"--starting with confronting Iran and it's taunting Germany's past concerning the slaughter of 16 million jews. Sound too unbelievable??? Listen to German response to Iran's comments...they are NOT going to take it lying down. And the pope is quietly waiting to unite Europe under a Catholic "umbrella" of influence. The 1940's will soon repeat itself again--don't believe ME--watch Europe and the Middle East!!! And pray to God that we wake up to reality! Why does noone have the GUTS to tell the TRUTH???!!!
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Just look at the storage area under the vatican city  that is guarded 24-7. All the riches and goodies stolen from many  societies from around the world since the beginning of Catholicism. Hmm the crusades comes to mind, North American native cultures and other native cultures totally decimated by the catholics the list is endless not to mention the gold from the teeth of the people killed in the German concentration camps. Hitler was a catholic and was not excommunicated because of all the wealth he contributed. look at all that the mafia is involved in and the vatican is associated with them up to their eyes. Shall I go on. Research for yourself and seek the truth it is everywhere.
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No, I don't!  I'm sick of all this persecution based on religion/culture.  Do I disagree with Muslims on many points and take issue with their actions?  Yes.  Do I think that because I disagree with them they are barbarians who don't deserve to live?  No.  It would be horribly egocentric of me or anyone else to declare themselves a moral authority and decide and entire people don't deserve to live.  Someone else gave themselves that same sort of moral authority about sixty-five years ago.  His name was Adolf Hitler.  I'm glad to see we've all learned so much from the past.  Way to promote bigotry, world.
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No there are still Catholics and Protestants who hate anything to do with the other religion Sad but true..
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is the pope catholic?
887639
surprisinly enough there are some liberal so called catholics, they put shame to our faith, and as far as Im conserned most are catholics in name only, meaning the can and should be excomunicated.
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I'm sure you remember the Inquisition.. or the papal pardons, or especially the crusades(did you know that in one crusade they sent children in battle because they we're the only ones left? and all for money...). Imagine you we're the pope, and that millions of people believe that you are the represent-ant on earth of the God that gave them all that they have.. you would give him total obedience, in respect for God. Such a power would corrupt many, if not all... maybe it striped the officials of the church of that time of their faith and fear of God, or maybe they never had faith and we're fake as today's politicians.. we can only assume, will never know for sure.. Of course there are good guys too, that fight for preserving God's laws and for the well-fair of Cristian's, they are the motif for which people believe in God up to this day, they are the hope of the church and of the salvation pf humanity as we know it:( It's sad that those who preach moral values have never done anything more with them..
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"Nazis" are National Socialists. Search accordingly. Also, they don't call themselves "Neo-" anything; this is a media-appointed term. \n\nYou might also want to search under religous groups like the Church of the Piney Woods, or the Christian Identity Movement. I'm not making this up, sadly. There's lots of hate out there to keep an eye on - but you have to know where to look.
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You won't hear a single word of apology for the Holocaust - because the Catholic Church had absolutely nothing to do with it.\n\nDon't believe me? Sorry for the long entry, but it is necessary:\n\n\nHow Pius XII Protected Jews\nBy Jimmy Akin \n\nThe twentieth century was marked by genocides on an monstrous scale. One of the most terrible was the Holocaust wrought by Nazi Germany, which killed an estimated six million European Jews and almost as many other victims. \n\nDuring this dark time, the Catholic Church was shepherded by Pope Pius XII, who proved himself an untiring foe of the Nazis, determined to save as many Jewish lives as he could. Yet today Pius XII gets almost no credit for his actions before or during the war. \n\nAnti-Catholic author Dave Hunt writes, "The Vatican had no excuse for its Nazi partnership or for its continued commendation of Hitler on the one hand and its thunderous silence regarding the Jewish question on the other hand. . . . [The popes] continued in the alliance with Hitler until the end of the war, reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in payments from the Nazi government to the Vatican."[1] \n\nJack Chick, infamous for his anti-Catholic comic books, tells us in Smokescreens, "When World War II ended, the Vatican had egg all over its face. Pope Pius XII, after building the Nazi war machine, saw Hitler losing his battle against Russia, and he immediately jumped to the other side when he saw the handwriting on the wall. . . . Pope Pius XII should have stood before the judges in Nuremberg. His war crimes were worthy of death."[2] \n\nOne is tempted simply to dismiss these accusations, so wildly out of touch with reality, as the deluded ravings of persons with no sense of historical truth. This would underestimate the power of such erroneous charges to influence people: Many take these writers at their word. \n\nStepping out of the nightmare fantasyland of Hunt and Chick and back into sunlight of the real world, we discover that, not only was Pius XII no friend of the Nazis, but that his opposition to them began years before the War, before he was elected to the papacy, when he was still Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican Secretary of State. \n\nOn April 28, 1935, four years before the War even started, Pacelli gave a speech that aroused the attention of the world press. Speaking to an audience of 250,000 pilgrims in Lourdes, France, the future Pius XII stated that the Nazis "are in reality only miserable plagiarists who dress up old errors with new tinsel. It does not make any difference whether they flock to the banners of social revolution, whether they are guided by a false concept of the world and of life, or whether they are possessed by the superstition of a race and blood cult."[3] It was talks like this, in addition to private remarks and numerous notes of protest that Pacelli sent to Berlin in his capacity as Vatican Secretary of State, that earned him a reputation as an enemy of the Nazi party. \n\nThe Germans were likewise displeased with the reigning pontiff, Pius XI, who showed himself to be a unrelenting opponent of the new German "ideals"—even writing an entire encyclical, Mit Brennender Sorge (1937), to condemn them. When Pius XI died in 1939, the Nazis abhorred the prospect that Pacelli might be elected his successor. \n\nDr. Joseph Lichten, a Polish Jew who served as a diplomat and later an official of the Jewish Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, writes: "Pacelli had obviously established his position clearly, for the Fascist governments of both Italy and Germany spoke out vigorously against the possibility of his election to succeed Pius XI in March of 1939, though the cardinal secretary of state had served as papal nuncio in Germany from 1917 to 1929. . . . The day after his election, the Berlin Morgenpost said: ‘The election of cardinal Pacelli is not accepted with favor in Germany because he was always op
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No, the Pope is down on secular humanism because it's not the truth.  \n\nWhat makes you think that secular humanism is "concerned with the welfare" of people.   \n\nDoes that mean you think the Catholic Church is not?\n\nWell, you're wrong then, because the Catholic Church is the single largest non-governmental source of humanitarianism and charity in the world.   \n\n.
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Brooke, I sympathize. They can't handle historical fact - all they have is their one book, and they believe everything in it. So outside fact has no meaning. If the bible told them the sky was pink, they would look at it and say "what a pretty pink sky". If you told them it was blue, they would argue forever about how the bible says it's pink, so it's pink. They still refuse to accept that Hitler was a Christian, even though we've provided tons of evidence that he slaughtered the Jews due to his religious beliefs. Don't take it too personally - the christers don't like people messing with their world view.
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Yes I like this... it just sounds more...TRUE somehow. Nobody who currently professes to be a Christian is truly Christ like...we all have our own prejudices, phobias, hatreds.... SINS. We can only aspire to be like Him and therefore Christianism fits the circumstance better. You should call the Pope or something.
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Yes I do. The majority of these people do not understand the office of the Pope and I sadly think they do not want to understand. They think nothing about God appointing Moses and Joshua and so on down the line but anything Catholic they automatically reject to their peril.
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Is the Pope Catholic?
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does the pope look like satan?
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We all know that the current pope was in the Hitler Youth.  Is this the fact that you are attempting to highlight?
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No, that's pretty accurate. The other 4% were Jews and other Christian faiths. Hitler was Austrian, and raised a Catholic.\nOne little side-bar, as long as we're discussing Nazi Germany: One of the first things Hitler did when coming to power was to ban all abortions, citing them as an "abomination." Thought that was interesting, considering what happened later.