I think it's a little misleading to say "the Catholic Church." Some powerful bishops, around 15-20, and their supporters did this. It was not like the Pope sanctioned this activity or the entire church was involved. Yes it's still a blemish on the Church because it wasn't ended with the bishops imprisoned and the nazis executed, but the whole church didn't do it.
If each of those nazi collaborators were not excommunicated, stripped of their bishopric vestments, had the three fingers on their right hand used for blessing people cut off, formally invalidating all of their acts and ordinations, tied up with weighted chains, and cast into the Tiber River to drown - or at least excommunicated and put in prison for life - then every person above those bishops all the way to the pope of the time were nazi sympathizers and should have been shot.
If there are ten people at a table and a Nazi sits with them, and they do not all get up and leave or forcibly remove said Nazi, then you have 11 Nazis at the table.
Nazi commandos not only evaded facing justice for crimes against humanity but also helped train american commandos into what they are today
Nazis were not only allowed to keep living in west germany but also allowed to continue operation Werewolf, the nazi reich's plan for a stay-behind partisan army, under the auspices of NATO
Nazis were allowed to flee west for Latin America with the help of their fascist collaborators - like the Catholic Church, and not only survive facing justice but also thrive until they died of old age
Thank you catholic church very cool!
I think it's a little misleading to say "the Catholic Church." Some powerful bishops, around 15-20, and their supporters did this. It was not like the Pope sanctioned this activity or the entire church was involved. Yes it's still a blemish on the Church because it wasn't ended with the bishops imprisoned and the nazis executed, but the whole church didn't do it.
If each of those nazi collaborators were not excommunicated, stripped of their bishopric vestments, had the three fingers on their right hand used for blessing people cut off, formally invalidating all of their acts and ordinations, tied up with weighted chains, and cast into the Tiber River to drown - or at least excommunicated and put in prison for life - then every person above those bishops all the way to the pope of the time were nazi sympathizers and should have been shot.
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If there are ten people at a table and a Nazi sits with them, and they do not all get up and leave or forcibly remove said Nazi, then you have 11 Nazis at the table.
Same standard applies to the Ukrainian military.
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