Evidence for Christianity

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It is true that the Pope would absolutely go out of his way to excommunicate Hitler, but this would be only if it actually helped to bring Nazism to an end. However, the Pope does not officially excommunicate Hitler if he believes it will actually strengthen Hitler, perhaps by turning more Germans against Catholics or by enboldening the Germans to sack the Vatican or something. Hitler is already de facto excommunicated becuase of Canon Law. I don't know why the Pope excommunicated a person for marrying a non-Catholic as this always allowed, with permission from your Bishop. Perhaps he did it without an indulgence, and the Pope felt that exommunicating him for this would actually help convince Catholics to seek an indulgence first. I guess he felt like in such a situation an exommunication would serve the common good, but in the case of Hitler he probably felt that it would only exacerbate the problem. That is unless he was evil, then I guess he did it just to be extra evil lol. Which I tend to think it was generally a good person faced with very difficult decisions and I think he just did the best he could, and I'm sure he could have done better in many ways, but overall I think he was virtuous.