How Catholic was Hitler?

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How Catholic was Hitler?

Catholic enough for German cardinals to give Nazi salutes and the Pope to see him as someone without enough objectionable qualities to openly challenge, much less excommunicate, as an earlier pope did to Napoleon.


But to pose the question properly so we are clear as who was trying to please and fit in with who, we should not ask how Catholic was Hitler.   The proper question is how Nazi was the Catholic Church.    

Certainly it was not as if Hitler the little man needed to fit in with a great and universal church.  It was the cowering little church that was desperately trying to make sure it did not fall out with the third Reich.  

Rosary, bible study, eucharistic adoration and confessor are for little fools who wants to fit in with the self important church.   But for great and infleuential lords like Der Fuhrer,  hardly would God's viceroy on earth and heir to St. Peter think of incurring the ire of Hitler by suggesting he was not catholic enough for the want of rosary, bible study, eucharistic adoration and confessor.