Quote:What morally serious person could argue that the Nazis responsible for killing millions of jews in cold blood, should not be officially excommunicated,----
To be fair, all Nazis were officially excommunicated in 1930. However,this was done by the German bishops, not by the pro fascist pope Pius X1,who had signed the Lateran Treaty with Mussolini in 1929..
Quote:--- the conference of German bishops excommunicated all Nazis in 1930, and in the 1932 elections forbade Catholics to vote for a Nazi. By being the leader of the Nazi party, Hitler had already put himself outside of the Church.
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The arrogance of the church with Catholics marrying non-Catholics and their utter intolerance of other Christian churches is something of which I'm all too familiar:
My parents were married in 1946.Mum was not a Catholic. That meant they could not be married in front of the altar.The actual ceremony took place in the vestry,the priest's changing room.
At school we were taught by the nuns not be mean to the protestant children because it wasn't their fault they were all going to hell.( I kid you not)
At that time Catholics were forbidden by the church ,under pain of mortal sin,to attend any religious service whatsoever in other than a Catholic church.
Some of the more idiotic practices and beliefs, such as Limbo and a few dodgy saints,were abolished after the Second Vatican Council. (1962-1965) These days, confession in no longer mandatory,nor is refraining from eating meat on Fridays.
