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The Catholic Church denounced Nazism in the years leading up to its rise to power in 1933–34. It believed its primary duty was to protect German Catholics and the Church. Popes Pius XI and Pius XII publicly denounced racism and the murder of innocents.
The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany (2009). Mourret, Fernand. History Of The Catholic Church (8 vol, 1931) comprehensive history to 1878. country by country. online free; by French Catholic priest. Ross, Ronald J. The failure of Bismarck's Kulturkampf: Catholicism and state power in imperial Germany, 1871-1887 (Catholic University of Amer ...
Pages in category "Catholic Church in Germany" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. ... Central Committee of German Catholics; Church 2011;
The Catholic Church in Germany comprises 7 ecclesiastical provinces each headed by an archbishop. The provinces are in turn subdivided into 20 dioceses and 7 archdioceses each headed by a bishop or an archbishop.
The sermons angered Hitler, who said in 1942: "The fact that I remain silent in public over Church affairs is not in the least misunderstood by the sly foxes of the Catholic Church, and I am quite sure that a man like Bishop von Galen knows full well that after the war I shall extract retribution to the last farthing". [194]
Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption (German: Liebfrauenkirche: July 13, 1951: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia Cologne: Basilica of St. Severin: March 9, 1953: Werl, North Rhine-Westphalia Paderborn: Basilica of the Visitation of Our Lady: October 16, 1953: Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg: Freiburg: Cathedral of Constance: May 30, 1955: Bonn ...
The Nazi war against the Catholic church. United States National Catholic Welfare Conference. Phayer, Michael (2000). The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930–1965. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-33725-2. Phayer, Michael (2008). Pius XII, the Holocaust, and the Cold War. Bloomington and Indianapolis ...
The Catholic Church is "the Catholic Communion of Churches, both Roman and Eastern, or Oriental, that are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome ." [2] The church is also known by members as the People of God, the Body of Christ, the "Temple of the Holy Spirit", among other names. [2]