REVELATION ITS GRAND CLIMAX AT HAND!/Chapter Thirty Three - The Modern-Day Harlotry - Continue

Though a handful of priests and nuns protested Hiter's atrosities-and suffered for it-the Vatican as well as the Catholic Church and its army of clergy gave either active or tacity support to the Nazi tyranny. which they regarded as bulwark against the advance of world communism.  Sitting pretty in the Vatican, Pope Pius XII let the Holocaustr on the Jews and the cruel persecutions of Jehovah's Witnesses and others proceed uncriticized. It is ironical  that Pope Paul II, on visiting Germany in May 1987, should glorift the anti-Nazi stand of one sincere priest.  Wha were the other thousands of the German clery doing during Hitler's reign of terror?   A pastorial letter issued by the German Catholic bishops in September 1939, at the outbreak of World War II provides enlightenment on this point. It reads in part: "In this decisive  hour we admonish our Catholic soldiers to do their duty in obedience   to the Feuher and to be read to sacrifice their whole individuality.  We appeal to the Faithful to join in ardent prayers that Diving Providence may lead this war to blessed success."

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