Word: concordat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholic Church do much better. In a new book called The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany, Political Scientist Guenter Lewy of the Univer sity of Massachusetts argues persuasively that the opposition of the bishops to Hitler was limited to occasional protests against his violations of the concordat with the Vatican. "At no time," he concludes, "did the Church challenge the legitimacy of the Nazi regime or give her explicit or implicit approval to the various attempts to bring about its downfall. While thousands of anti-Nazis were beaten to a pulp in concentration camps, the Church talked of supporting...
...scene derived from an actual incident of 1943, a secretly anti-Nazi storm trooper named Rudolf Gerstein breaks in to tell the nuncio that Jews are being systematically exterminated at death camps in Eastern Europe. The horrified nuncio refuses to take any action because the Vatican has a concordat with Germany-which Pius XII, then Vatican Secretary of State, negotiated in 1933. Riccardo, however, promises Gerstein that Pius will speak out when he hears of the atrocities, and undertakes a personal mission to Rome...
Saints in Uniform. No one was suggesting that the hierarchy would risk losing the 1953 Concordat with Franco; it gave the Catholic Church far more power in Spain than it ever had under the Catholic kings. But unmistakably there were now strong reservations attached to the old friendship...
...Concordat between the Vatican and Italy prescribes "respect of the sacred character of Rome." But, to the disgust of Pope John XXIII, many Roman revelers prefer a common law of their own: La Dolce Vita-the sweet life. Lately, seldom does a day pass when a newspaper he reads is not splashed with yet another scandal. Last week he appealed to temporal rulers of the Eternal City to control ''immorality that, as we are told, is raging in Rome no less than elsewhere...
...church have got along well. Archbishop Ricardo Pittini, Primate of the Americas, is now 83 and blind, but four years ago he signed a letter to the New York Times praising Trujillo and saying that "this 'dictator' is loved and honored by his people." Trujillo signed a concordat with the Vatican in 1954, and has served as godfather at Catholic baptisms of at least 3,800 children. His government is building a magnificent church...