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Open Access for Authors. They left their dead unburied rather than have a state appointed priest officiate. In Trier in the Rhineland infantry and cavalry had to be called out when over a thousand Catholics surrounded seminary professors the state had expelled.
And in parish after parish, parishioners bought back church property and clerical belongings confiscated for unpaid fines.
Excepting pro-choice and gay rights groups there is really no anti-Catholic feeling in America that equals in ferocity and wide public support what German Catholics faced during the Kulturkampf.
At that time the first Vatican Council had roused anticlericals and Protestants across Europe. In Germany one result was petitions calling for the expulsion of all monastic orders, "hotbeds of superstition, fornication and sloth. The media portrayed it as a great liberating event in the history of the Church. That interpretation promoted a false peace with modern society, at least in media stories replaced now by hostility, as the message of John Paul, repeated again and again around the world slowly sink in: namely, that the Council taught what the Church has always taught.
So instead of the invective heaped on Plus IX and Vatican I, there is a smouldering hate today, looking for scandal, for missteps, for another opportunity to tell another false tale about Pius MI or a documentary on the Bible, full of solemnity and lies.
AntiCatholicism in Bismarck's day was bold and arrogant and in your face. Anderson quotes one contemporary: "Every day the Catholic had to read-in the great newspapers that he was an enemy of the Fatherland, a little papist, a dumbhead and that his clergy were the scum of humanity. Even the distinguished Bishop von Ketteler suffered the hoots of Berlin's skeet urchins.
In a small Dominican chapel in one of the capital's suburbs was vandalized by a mob and its two priests expelled. If the American media piously disclaim any anti-Catholic agenda, their reporting of her history -her teaching, her hierarchy is so weighed down with the views of Catholic dissenters that the same end is achieved: slander of the Church and the Faith. In the German Kulturkampf the battle was out in the open, the issues were clear At least initially.
Windthorst frequently remarked that the first phase of the struggle, for all of its ferocity, was the easiest to counter. Later, as Bismarck feigned conciliation, as division entered Catholic ranks, as the role of the papacy changed, as weariness and spiritual fatigue took its toll, the defense and counter attack was much more difficult to manage.
Even Windthorst, fighter that he was, in his later years suffered much from depression and despair. It is impossible to detail all the issues, aside from those affecting the Church, on which Windthorst had to give leadership as the Center Party grew and the Kulturkampf dragged on.
His positions and almost always the positions of the party, no matter how much haranguing and browbeating Windthorst had to administer are heroic testimony to the man and his fellow Catholic believers. Liberal historians scorn the Church's role in modern history as one of reaction and defense of the status quo.
But Windthorst and the Center Party are blazing refutations of such dishonest scholarship as are many other instances-to name just one, the leading role of Catholics in the founding of European and American labor unions When Bismarck demanded, after an assassination attempt on the Kaiser, that the fledging Social Democratic Party be outlawed.
Windthorst retorted "We cannot fight Socialism any better than by striving very seriously and persistently to find out in what points the gentlemen of Social Democracy are correct We should do everything we can think of to come to the aid of the working classes If Socialism is now reaping a very great harvests this is because of the misery of the times, which to be sure, the gentlemen of 'capital' do not grasp. Windthorst was never enticed by Socialist ideas, but as a leading member of a harshly persecuted minority, he appreciated the protection of constitutional law against an evil and vindictive state.
Windthorst new full well that sometimes even that protection failed. Many of Bismarck's laws had been declared unconstitutional and yet still remained on the books and were enforced. Nevertheless, Windthorst insisted: "Equal rights and equal protection for all. I want this right for all," he told the Reichstag. And he was as good as his word, again and again, often alone in his party and the Reichstag, combating the anti-Semitism that "suffused the atmosphere of Imperial Germany.
A bright spot in the alignment of forces in our American contrasted with 19th century Germany's, is the remarkable unity of purpose between Catholic and Evangelical Protestants. Though organizational unity is minimal, the prolife agenda unites both confessions at all levels of society. Windthorst, who repeatedly pled with Protestants and Jews to join the Center Party, never saw such results. If one asks whether German Catholics might have been more successful if they had joined other political parties rather than "isolating" themselves within their own, consider the words of historian Ellen Evans in her study of the Center Party: ".
With the election of Leo XIII to the papacy in began the most difficult and controversial period of the. Both men obviously wanted what was best for the Church and her German sons and daughters.
But Windthorst's years of struggle of the most intense nature, gave him a perspective that not even the Roman pontiff could change. Eventually the two became estranged without ever giving any public hint of discord. Windthorst loyally trying to meet the pontiff's wishes, even if in a barely minimal, less than straight forward manner, and Leo ever protesting the great value he placed upon the Center Party and its leaders.
Between them both, of course, stalked the ominous figure of Bismarck, exploiting every advantage during this period he was often better informed than Windthorst about Vatican affairs and through his press continually painted Windthorst and his Party as the only obstacles to the end of the , even though all his anti-Catholic laws were in force. He had won the. His state controlled the education, appointment and discipline of the clergy," and "could perform the only legally valid marriage ceremony.
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Have you ever failed or refused to fulfill an employment contract with a school or diocese? Pacelli became Pope in As is well known, he did not openly denounce Nazi anti-Semitism as such, although he condemned Nazi racism in more general terms. Nor did he explicitly refer to the Final Solution as it unfolded, even though he was one of the first leaders outside German-controlled Europe to be informed of its full dimensions.
On October 16, , more than 1, Jews were arrested by German forces in the Jewish district of Rome, at the foot of the Vatican hill.
Within a week more than a thousand of those arrested had been taken to Auschwitz and gassed. The Vatican offered shelter to hundreds of Jewish fugitives, within Vatican City and in other Church institutions under Vatican control. Neither Pacelli nor his Secretary of State openly protested any of this.
Critics of Pius XII have accounted for his failure to challenge Hitler more directly, even on the matter of the Jewish genocide, by charging him with cowardice, or with quietly held Nazi sympathies, but Cornwell shows that neither was the case. The Germans indicated their readiness to stage a coup and end the war, but only with assurances from London that the Munich settlement would be honored.
For whatever reason, the British failed to pick up on the initiative. Nonetheless, the plotters and the Pope himself had acted in ways that Hitler, had he learned of them, would have savagely punished. For his repeated efforts to prevent the Allies from bombing Rome, alongside his relative inaction regarding the bombing of other cities, and also for his firm support for Catholic nationalism in Croatia, even after the Ustache regime revealed itself as grotesquely genocidal?
He was not indifferent to the suffering of innocents, nor was he unaffected by the murderous policies of the Nazis in occupied Europe. And there are other indications he accepted the stereotypical association of the Jew with Bolshevism that Pacelli regarded Jews as a contemporary as well as an ancient enemy of the Church.
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