02-26-2011, 06:12 PM
(02-26-2011, 03:49 PM)Habitual_Ritual Wrote: Perhaps the question should be, "Why were the Nazi party not formally excommunicated" ? Still an interesting question...
What kind of question is that? You can't "excomunicate" political organizations, only denounce and condemn them when it's due.
As for National-Socialism in Germany, check Pius XI's "Mit Brennender Sorge," on the Church and the German Reich.