What IS good, and how do we determine it?

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You may recall that when the bishops did speak out against Nazism in the earliest days of the war, Hitler ordered massive bombing in retaliation, and many innocent civilians died.

As Parker said, examples, sources, if you please. The names of the bishops from countries Hitler wasn't already at war with, since speaking out against an enemy of state is no big deal and the supposed retaliation bombing can be just as well an ordinary bombing.

It gets more interesting when looking at Hitler's direct sphere of influence. There we find one bishop having the guts to take a real stand: Clemens August Graf von Galen, bishop of Münster, who was very vocal about the so called Euthanasia program of the Nazis. Absolutely nothing bad happened to him after taking a public stance against Hitler. Too influential, too public a figure to remove in times of war. The Euthanasia program was abandoned for a time after von Galen had made it public. So, only positive effects after speaking out. That's one figure to respect in a sea of towing the line hierarchy.