Exposing Christianity

[Fake Messiah]

Thousands, eh? And the entire Vatican was in on it.

So, the Catholic Church did NOT hide Jews in its monasteries during the War, but it DID hide Nazis there after the war.

Is that correct?

Dude, The Vatican was created by fascists!! The first thing the Mussolini did after taking power was reintroduced religious studies into state primary schools, provided some money for restoring churches, and even allowed crucifixes into public buildings from which they had been banned since 1870.

BTW have you ever heard of Lateran Pacts? On February 11, 1929, the Vatican and the fascists signed the Lateran Pacts, consisting of three parts: a political treaty, a concordat that set forth the terms of the relationship between the Holy See and the state, and a financial convention. The political treaty set aside 108.7 acres as Vatican City and fifty-two scattered “heritage” properties as an autonomous neutral state. It reinstated Papal sovereignty and ended the Pope’s boycott of the Italian state that had been in place since the Papal States were lost. The Pope was declared “sacred and inviolable,” the equivalent of a secular monarch, but invested with divine right. Cardinals had the same rights as princes by blood.
The concordat granted the church immense privilege. Most important was its declaration that Catholicism was fascist Italy’s only religion. Freemasonry was outlawed, evangelical meetings in private homes banned, and Protestant Bibles forbidden. Marriage was acknowledged as a sacrament. All church holidays became state holidays. Priests were exempted from military and jury duty.

The three-article financial convention—the Conciliazione—granted “ecclesiastical corporations” a tax exemption. It also compensated the Vatican for the confiscation of the Papal States with 750 million lire in cash and a billion lire in government bonds that paid 5 percent interest. The settlement—worth about $1.3 billion in 2015 dollars—was approximately a third of Italy’s entire annual budget and an enormous windfall for the cash-starved church. The Vatican wanted double that, but Mussolini persuaded the Pope and his negotiators that the government was itself in precarious shape. It could ill afford anything more.

“Italy has been given back to God,” the Pope told the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano, “and God to Italy.” The church threw its full power behind the fascists. The Vatican disbanded its influential Partito Popolare Italiano and exiled its leader from Italy. Italian bishops swore an oath of allegiance to the fascist government and clerics were prohibited from encouraging the faithful to oppose it. Priests began offering prayers at Sunday Masses for Mussolini and for fascism. Some clergy joined the National Fascist Party and a few even served as officers.