Chapter Thirty-Three/Judging the Infamous Harlot - Modern-Day "Harlotry"

 On July 20, 2933, the Vatican's interest in the rising power of Nazism was displayed when Cardinali Paceli (who later became Pope Pius XII) singed a concordat in Rome between the Vatican and Nazi Germany. VonPapen signed the document as Hitler's representative, and Paceli  there conferred on von Papen the high papal decoration of he Grand Cross of the Order of Pius. In his book Satan in Top Hate, Tibor Koeves writes of this, stating: "The Concordat was a great victory for Hitler. It gave him the first moral support he had received from the outer world, and this from the exalted source." The concordat required the Vatican to withdraw its support from Germany's Catholic Center Party, thus sanctioning Hitler's one-party "total state." Further, its article 14 stated: "The appointments for archbishops, bishops, and the like will be issued only after the governor, installed by the Reich, has duly ascertained that no doubts exist with respect to general political considerations." By the end of 1933 (proclaimed a "Holy Year by Pope Pius XI), Vatican support had become a major factor in Hitler's push for world domination. 

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