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What the Popes said about Atheistic NazisOn April 28, 1935, Cardinal Pacelli (who became Pope Pius XII) gave an address to 250,000 in Lourdes, France. He said, "[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." On May 10, 1937, Pope Pius XI released the famous encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge (German for "With deep anxiety") which explicitly condemned the pagan Nazi cult. Unlike other papal encyclicals, which are written in Latin, this encyclical was written in German so that all Germans could easily read it. It was addressed to the German bishops and the Pope required that it be read in all parish churches of Germany. Of the forty-four speeches Cardinal Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII, made on German soil between 1917 and 1929, at least forty contained attacks on Nazism or condemnations of Hitler’s doctrines. Pacelli, who never met the Führer, called the Nazi atheistic religion ‘neo-Paganism.’" Christian's blog | login to post comments |