Word: catholicize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pious Old Paul von Hindenburg grew so troubled by the Nazi v. non-Nazi schism in German Protestantism that Catholic Chancellor Hitler had to call on the Protestant President one day last week and personally assure him that somehow everything would come out all right.
The fact that no reason was given for the action in no way obscures its obvious aim. The Church has succeeded in the elimination of the Communists and hence have no desire to support either Dollfuss or the Nazis, both of whom they agree with. The clerics have waged a...
Now that Marxism has been exorcised, the Catholic Church very cleverly ceases active support of Dollfuss, whose only opponents are the Nazis. Thus they avoid a possible loss of favor, should the Nazis win. The issue is now between Austrian capitalism and Austro-German capitalism. The Church has conclusively proved...
The Catholic Church today occupies in politics and economics a position parallel to the one it occupied in the later Middle Ages. It is fighting for the old and dying and is doing its best to strangle the new and rising. At that time it was defending precisely what it...
The new order of things won. And having won, capitalism created a whole new culture in its own image, gradually absorbing even the Catholic Church, until today we find the Church fighting for its own inherent enemy, fighting the social doctrines of Karl Marx, "the last of the schoolmen," as...