This article is from the 1944 edition of the Converted Catholic Magazine of which former Roman Catholic priest, Leo Herbert Lehmann (also known as L.H. Lehmann) is the editor. It was first put online in PDF format by the LutheranLibrary.org.

I’m posting this because I never heard of it before! Do academic institutions teach that the World War II Pope, Pius XII, actually made a concordant with Hitler and apologized for it later? Just the fact that the Pope supported Hitler speaks volumes of the Vatican agenda in the world. Satan is a control freak and that’s exactly what Nazi Germany was under according to documentaries of Nazi Germany I’ve seen. I hear Pope Francis is making deals with the Chinese Communist Party as well in spite of negative benefits for the church.

THE PITIFUL EXCUSES for the Vatican’s concordat with Hitler, made by Pope Pius XII in his speech to the College of Cardinals last June 2, 1944, scarcely call for comment. Never was the head of the Roman Catholic church placed in such an embarrassing position. With Mussolini dead in the streets of Milan, and Hitler’s corpse fairly certainly charred out of recognition underneath his blasted chancellery in Berlin and his regime smashed to bits by the conquering armies of the United States, Britain, and Russia, Pope Pius XII found it expedient and safe to condemn National Socialism by name for the first time. Even a child could see that he was frantically mending very broken fences.

The Pope’s speech merits consideration, however, for the following reasons:

[1] HIS ADMISSION of the Vatican’s collaboration with Hitler by means of the concordat, which he himself signed jointly with the despicable Von Papen. He had lived in Germany “for over twelve years — twelve of the best of our mature years —,” he said. He was there when Hitler first published Mein Kampf, and was known as “the best informed yuan in the Reich,” according to Viscount d’Abernon, Britain’s first ambassador to the Weimar Republic. “We were personally in close contact with its [Germany’s] most representative men,” the Pope admitted. The Vatican’s negotiations with the Weimar Republic, he explained, did not give “adequate guarantee or assurance” for the Catholic church’s “faith, rights or liberty of action.” Then he continued: “In such conditions the guarantees could not be secured except through a settlement having the solemn form of a concordat with the central government of the [Nazi] Reich.” In other words, he admitted that the Vatican from the beginning favored Hitler’s Nazi regime rather than the constitutional government of the German Republic. He signed the concordat with Hitler less than six months after he came to power and never made any move to revoke it. The Pope also admitted that he knew of all the cruelties and atrocities carried on up till the very end by Hitler’s henchmen. Yet he never uttered a word by way of reproach or condemnation until Hitler was reported safely dead.

[2] His failure to say anything in condemnation of Mussolini’s Fascism in Italy and his atrocities against the helpless Ethiopians. Nor did he utter any pious outcry against Franco’s Fascism in Spain where an estimated 400,000 Loyalist prisoners are still kept in concentration camps. If the Pope were really sincere in his condemnation of Fascist barbarities, why does he not, even at this late date, place the Catholic church on our side against similar barbarities being continued against us by the Japanese? He still retains General Ken Harada in the Vatican as the Ambassador of the Emperor of Japan.

We can expect that the Pope will also wait until Japan has been completely defeated before he will tell us that he is against the banditry of Japan. If Nazism was wrong after its defeat, it was equally wrong when the Pope signed the Vatican’s concordat with Hitler. The crimes of Japan and Franco’s Spain likewise are as wrong today as they will be after those countries have been freed from Fascist domination.

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