Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catholic Hitler
Sirs: . . . You refer to Hitler as "Catholic Hitler." The fact that he, as a baby, was baptized a Catholic, does not mean that he is now a practicing Catholic. Far from it!
. . . Herr Hitler is not a Catholic; he is an apostate. Although not formally excommunicated by the Holy Father, he is ipso facto excommunicated by the very anti-Catholic and unchristian policies he advocates and demonstrates. Until he repents of these egregious errors, one can only consider him as an apostate...
Exhorting eminent Catholics to attend the international pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady at Lourdes, France on Sept. 20, the Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham, England, exclaimed from his pulpit last week: "What a fine impulse for real peace in Europe if Hitler were to attend!"?ED.
Born in London (1860). eldest of five brothers, scion of a family that had been in the piano manufacturing business for a century, Frederick William Rolfe was a precocious but unstable youth. Against his family's wishes, he left school at 15, idled for a while, went to Oxford as...