History Tells Us Vatican Always Backs Fascist Regimes
Greg Szymanski
History
Tells Us Vatican Always Backs
Fascist Regimes
Edith Moore's 1942 booklet, No
Friend of Democracy, is a must
read for Americans trying to
uncover Vatican and Jesuit
Order's secret role in the
Illuminati and New World Order
bent on destroying the U.S. from
within.
By Greg Szymanski, JD
Jan. 18, 2008
The Vatican has been closely
collaborating with fascist
regimes for
centuries, according to Edith
Moore in her 1941 booklet, No
Friend of
Democracy.
The book, never given much
publicity and suppressed in
major U.S. book outlets, details
the Vatican and Jesuit Order's
undercover work with the likes
of Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler,
to name a few.
For anyone interested in finding
out how the evil Vatican and
their
henchmen in the Jesuit Order
have no morals and speak out of
both sides of their mouth,
cutting deals with fascist
regimes for wealth and
religious power, listen to the
author's opening words:
"This booklet aims at helping to
explain how Roman Catholicism as
Church, Creed and Conscience has
operated in relation to this war
and the Fascist forces that
brought it about. It provides a
selection of
material showing how Fascism and
Nazism uprooted the free
movements of civilization and
established their own
authoritarian power with the
Church at their side as ally.
"It tells how
with the blessing of Catholicism
dictators launched
campaigns of aggression which so
swelled the ambitions and
inflated the
self-confidence of the Axis
Powers that their vision of
world domination
could be conceived in terms of
practical politics.
"It alleges that the failure of
the League and of non-Fascist
statesmen
to demonstrate the will to peace
of the world can partly be
explained by
a reference to Catholic policy.
It shows how in one country
after
another the Church bred
Defeatism because she aspired to
woo Fascism for
the sake of State favors. It
asserts that the concepts of
Catholic
Christianity are in large
measure akin to Fascist
ideology, and alien to
the ideals which inspire
Fascism's most fervent
opponents.
"This booklet is offered to all
people, Christians and
non-Christians
alike, who are opposing Nazism
because they want Freedom to
live on and
become a real force in the
world. It is published as a
warning, and in
the hope that they will treat
with due caution the overtures
of Catholic
representatives during the war.
Otherwise they may discover that
by
their work they have
strengthened a Church that will
march under the
banner of Freedom only to secure
freedom for herself, and in
order later
to eradicate freedom of word,
deed and conscience from the
face of the
earth."
Regarding the 1933 Vatican
concordat with Hitler's Germany
and the
Jesuits hidden agenda to bring
Hitler to power, Moore had this
to say:
"Any talk of a Papal or Catholic
struggle against Fascism in
Germany is
an historical falsification...
"Similarly in Germany, Hitler
came to power with the active
assistance of
the Catholic Centre Party and of
the ecclesiastical forces of the
Roman
Catholic Church. The country was
in a political ferment after
repeated
changes of government and months
of rule by Emergency Decree.
Hitler
promised to end all that and
bring stability to the nation.
Above all he
swore to destroy the disruptive
forces of Communism. From street
corner
and platform Fascist orators
proclaimed that the country must
choose
between the anarchy of
Bolshevism and the order of
National Socialism.
The Church's representatives
took their cue and joined in the
general
outcry, proclaiming that Russian
Communism was at the throat of
the
nation, and that the supreme
task was to save the country
from Red Ruin.
With Catholic votes and Catholic
ideological support, Hitler
finally
seized power and started his
campaign of terror and murder to
exterminate the social forces
which stood opposed to Fascism.
Was
Catholicism amongst those
forces? Did the Church or her
representatives
protest against the hideous and
barbaric hooliganism which went
by the
name of politics and government
in Germany, which violated the
lives and
most elementary rights of human
beings? Did the holy keepers of
human
morality warn the world of the
terrible fate in store, the
outline of
which existed in the pages of
Mein Kampf? No. The Church's
attention was
focussed on the supreme task of
enquiring what the bloody
dictator
intended to do about the Church
and Catholic religion, and
whether a
suitable agreement might be
concluded similar to that which
regulated
relations between the Church and
the State in Italy. On accession
to
power Hitler assured the Church
that:
"As we see in Christianity the
unshakable foundation of moral
life, so
it is our duty to continue to
cultivate friendly relations
with the Holy
See and to develop them." (From
Hitler's speech to the Reichstag
on
March 23rd, 1933, in which he
indicated the programme of his
Government.
See Universe, March 31st, 1933.)
The Church was further assured
of the Fascist desire to find a
basis for
co-operation when Von Papen was
dispatched to Rome to offer a
Concordat
covering the whole of the Reich,
and to promise the Church State
protection for its property and
doctrine in exchange for the
dissolution
of the Centre Party. The
Concordat was signed, and as
George Seldes
explains:
"Monsignor Kass went to Rome. To
the surprise of an interviewer,
who
expected a strong denunciation
of Hitler from the ancient chief
of the
Catholic Party, the prelate
said: "Hitler knows well how to
guide the
ship. This man, bearer of high
ideals, will do all that is
necessary to
save the nation from catastrophe
. . ."
And Seldes sums up:
"The Communist and Socialist
Parties had been conquered with
fire and
sword; the Hugenberg
Nationalists by intrigue; the
Catholics by
agreement with the Vatican."
"One should not
forget that Article 16 of the
Concordat between Hitler
and the Pope obliged all German
Bishops to take the following
oath
before the Reichsstatthalter:
"I swear before God and upon the
Holy Gospels and promise, as
becomes a
bishop, to be loyal to the
German Reich and the State. I
swear and
promise to respect the
constitutional Government and to
have it
respected by my clergy."
"The German
Hierarchy expressed the
readiness of Catholicism to
co-operate with the Nazi State
in the following terms:
"The Episcopate of all the
German Dioceses, as is shown by
its
statements to the public, was
glad to express as soon as it
was made
possible after the recent change
in the political situation
through the
declarations of Your excellency
its sincere readiness to
co-operate to
its best ability with the new
government which has proclaimed
as its
goal to promote Christian
education, to wage a war against
Godlessness
and immorality, to strengthen
the spirit of sacrifice for the
common
good and to protect the rights
of the Church." (From a letter
of His
Eminence Cardinal Bertram to
Chancellor Herr Hitler after the
conclusion
of the Concordat between the
Vatican and the German
Government. See
Universe, August 18th, 1933.)
"Fritz Thyssen,
the rich steel magnate who
financed the Nazi Party for
many years, has stated in the
Swiss Arbieterzeitung that the
following
were the plans for a new Germany
which the Roman Catholics
envisaged
(the article is headed: Pius
XII, as Nuncio, Brought Hitler
to Power):
". . . the idea was to have a
sort of Christian Corporate
State
organised according to the
classes, which should be
supported by the
Churches in the west by the
Catholic, and in the East by the
Protestant
-- and by the Army....',
(Cavalcade, September 28th,
1940.)
The contention is that once
again, in exchange for the
promise of
benefits to the Church, the
Church betrayed the democratic
forces inside
and outside her own ranks, and
used ecclesiastical influence
and power
to foster allegiance to
Fascism."
Moore's book also warned
Protestants back in the 1940's
not to unite
with the Vatican under the
Jesuits cry for "Christian
Unity" when it
meant as only a sneaky method to
unite under what the Bible calls
the
anti christ and beast in Rome.
The same rings true today as
witnessed in the phony
ecumenical movements
advanced by the Vatican as
readers should listen to Moore's
words as a
warning not to unite with "Beast
of Revelations."
"What are we to say, then, to
the increasing amount of
denominational
unity which this country is
witnessing, and which is being
sponsored on
the Pope's Five Peace Points? A
Joint Manifesto over the
signatures of
Cardinal Hinsley, the
Archbishops of Canterbury and
York, and the
Moderator of the Free Church
Federal Council accepts these
proposals as
embodying the War Aims of all
Christians. These Christian
leaders are
further agreed on five standards
which should govern economic and
social
life in the years after the war.
Interdenominational campaigns to
popularise a Christian Post-War
Order have been announced.
"Roman Catholics plan to extend
the co-operation thus achieved
at the
top to every town, village and
parish; to establish a Christian
Council
of Action to bring pressure to
bear on national and local
public
representatives, and to submit
to a combined Christian
Convention a
practical programme which can
then become the focal point of a
struggle
to "Christianise" this country.
It is also evident that
overtures are
being made to working-class
circles to persuade them to
adopt the Pope's
policy, and become an integral
part of the new Christian Front.
The
editor of the Catholic Herald in
a recent letter to the New
Statesman
and Nation invited the
non-Communist Left to join up
with Christians in
their work for a new Order. The
Catholic Herald interviewed Mr.
George
Gibson, Chairman of the Trades
Union Congress, with the object
of
finding out what are the chances
of the Christian Ten Points
being
adopted by the T.U.C., and
according to that paper's
report, received
quite a sympathetic reception.
"The Pope's Five Peace Points
have received too much publicity
to need
quoting in detail here. As an
expression of the wish that
international
anarchy be ended they are not a
subject for criticism?though the
practice of the Church in aiding
and abetting those warmongers
she can
use for her own advantage makes
one doubtful about the
genuineness of
that desire. In any case, such
sentiment is widespread already.
Another
hotch-potch of general phrases
about the need for the
independence of
nations, for progressive
disarmament, for international
institutions
like the League of Nations and
the Hague Court, etc., etc.,
contributes
nothing to a solution of the
practical problems involved in
the
outlawing of war. The world's
miseries are due to the fact
that those
politicians and financiers who
want power and wealth at the
expense of
millions who are robbed of their
rights and security have been
accosted
with pious schemes galore, but
seldom with people who are armed
with a
detailed and realistic plan and
the resolution to see it
achieved.
"The Five Social Standards which
the leaders of Catholicism,
Anglicanism
and Methodism have adopted in
common are no whit less open to
the same
criticism. Few progressive
people would deny that the
inequalities of
wealth and education should be
eradicated. The difficulties
only arise
when we begin to define what we
mean by Equality and consider
how such a
state of Equality is to be
attained. Again demands which
proclaim that
the Family must be safeguarded,
that the sense of a Divine
vocation must
be restored to man's daily work,
and that the resources of the
earth
must be used as God's gifts to
Man provide no practical guide
whatever
to questions of social policy.
"All this ambiguity is no matter
of chance, however. For it is
only by
sticking to nebulous
propositions that unity between
the denominations
is possible at all. Where she
bas power, the Catholic Church
protects
the Family, for instance, by
compulsory Catholic education,
by Catholic
censorship, by making divorce
impossible and the distribution
of
information on Birth Control a
punishable offence, and by
compelling
women to adopt the "vocation" of
Wifehood ant Motherhood by means
of
closing the doors of Industry
and the Professions against
them. Few
Christians outside the Catholic
Church would recognise such
compulsion
as akin to their ideals. Again,
equality in Education has always
meant
for loyal Catholics in this
country the demand that Catholic
children
shall be taught the Catholic
religion by Catholic teachers in
Catholic
schools at the public expense.
And many are the moves going on
both in
public and behind closed doors
to prepare the launching of
educational
reforms which will allow the
Catholic priests a greater scope
for action
in the Schoolroom and, in
general, will give religious
sectarianism free
play in school life. Very many
Christians, as well as
non-Christians,
will be strongly averse to a
demand for Educational Equality
which
serves only as a cloak for
reforms which divide and
segregate the
children in the schools on the
basis of differences which they
cannot
possibly understand.
"For these reasons, Christians
outside the Roman Catholic
Church will
fall for such schemes of
Christian Unity at their peril.
Many of them
are opposed to Nazism because
they believe that the minds and
consciences of people should be
inviolate and the object of
respect, and
they recognise that Nazism
shatters with rude and brutal
hands the
values they prize so highly. But
these values are menaced
equally, if
less obviously, and less
immediately, by Roman
Catholicism. Do these
Christians who are cooperating
with Roman Catholicism want to
escape
from the frying pan only to burn
in the fire? In the non-Fascist
countries Roman Catholic
strategy is seeking to harness
the Christian
Churches and Christian sentiment
behind the Church of Rome, and
to drive
the wedge deeper between
Christians and non-Christians.
But actually the
real schism exists elsewhere
between intolerant Catholics --
together
with particularly bigoted
representatives of the other
Churches -- and
those people inside and outside
the Churches who want a world of
greater
freedom at the end of this war.
The ultimate outcome of
Christian Unity,
so far as the leaders of
Catholicism are concerned, is to
stimulate
Catholic growth as a step
towards that political status
which will
permit the Church to carry
through her divine commission to
persecute
and proselytise those who show
no voluntary aptitude to let
their minds
and wills become the property of
the Church. The War will indeed
be
fought in vain if the people of
Europe ward off Hitler's New
Order of
Tyranny only to discover too
late this other enemy within
their gates
who will forge in the name of
religion a system which is
equally
intolerant, equally
authoritarian and, if necessary,
equally brutal.
"There is no reasonable basis
for the unity of all Christians
during
this War. Those people inside
the Anglican and Free Churches
whose
desire to see the people free is
deep and genuine, should
repudiate the
alliance which has been
initiated by their leaders. Let
them go together
with lovers of freedom outside
the Churches. And let them
define in
common with these others War
Aims in terms that will
challenge the right
of any State or Institution to
mould the young to set patterns,
and
place penalties on the opinions
of adults, and on the human
conscience."
Editor's Note: You can
find a copy of Moore's booklet
on
www.arcticbeacon.com by
clicking on the 'Rare Books and
Documents" page.
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