• GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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    3 years ago

    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.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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      3 years ago

      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.

      • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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        3 years ago

        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.