The 8th Historical Telling.

[spanky061970]

I am looking forward to the next few episodes of this history telling. I am very interested in the history of Christian religion especially the Catholic denomination and the Romanist involvement with hitler.

[hellsunicorn]

My knowledge on the Hitler and Pious XII connection is still evolving, but I can say with almost complete certainty that both Hitler and Mussolini were instrumental in bringing the Papacy's late 19th to early 20th century agenda to most of Europe. Oddly enough, Stalin was completely removed from what was going on and had agents from various communist parties in Europe and America trying to infiltrate the Curia and the Papacy, and they succeeded for 32 days when John Paul I was elected.

[hellsunicorn]

The ironic truth is that although Hitler and Mussolini were deposed rather quickly, Fascism proved to be the stronger system and Stalin was forced to adopt some form of it to maintain the tanking Soviet economy.

Fascism, if you go by the politics of medieval Europe, has a direct connection with power being consolidated in the Papacy, which was going on incrementally between the crowning of Charlemagne and the ratification of the 1st Vatican Council and Papal infallibility.

[MrWizenBud]

This video reminds me of a movie line:

"There was once a dream that was

Rome, you could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish. It was so fragile and I fear that it will not survive the winter."

[hellsunicorn]

One of the driving themes in this part, as well as the next couple parts is the war within the Catholic Church between the Romanists and the Independents, who are a bit closer to Presbyterians/Lutherans in some respects politically. Roman Catholicism didn't exist until the 8th century, and didn't have full control over the Catholic Church until the late 19th century, something which most both inside and outside the Catholic Church are not aware of.

[hellsunicorn]

A lot of people talk about the plight of the Jews and the Gypsies during the Holocaust, but what many don't know is that Hitler, acting on advice from Pious XII, targeted Independent Catholic Churches in Germany, Austria, Holland and Belgium in exchange for Rome staying out of his affairs. Though these people were not very numerous, they were a tremendous thorn in the side of the Roman Church, and Hitler gained legitimacy as a consistent persecutor of people as a result of it.