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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 ...
Within less than a year, the German Catholics grew to over 8,000 members. Communities were formed at Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Offenbach am Main, Worms, Wiesbaden and several other locations. [2] The movement garnered support from Robert Blum, a newspaper publisher in Leipzig. Blum published writings of the new movement and helped to organize it.
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.
Catholic Church and Nazi Germany; Catholic Church and Nazi Germany during World War II; Catholic Tübingen school; Centre Party (Germany) Colloquium Marianum; Concordats with individual states of Germany; Confraternity book; Congregations Law; Congress of Ems
The following category includes persons from Germany who are or were members of the Roman Catholic Church. Membership does not necessarily indicate personal Christian faith. Contents
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 ...
Into the early 1930s the German Centre Party, the German Catholic bishops, and the Catholic media had been mainly solid in their rejection of National Socialism. They denied Nazis the sacraments and church burials, and Catholic journalists excoriated National Socialism daily in Germany's 400 Catholic newspapers.