tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33970956.post2361331082502685068..comments2024-03-19T15:26:26.055+00:00Comments on auntie joanna writes: Worth discovering...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33970956.post-326690550820448492007-08-29T21:36:00.000+01:002007-08-29T21:36:00.000+01:00By all means, please write the pamphlet, auntie. I...By all means, please write the pamphlet, auntie. I was also in Rome for his beatification & have always wanted to learn more about him. Always learn something on your on blog!<BR/> And, way to go, Philip Andrews.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33970956.post-48288530873878930472007-08-28T08:53:00.000+01:002007-08-28T08:53:00.000+01:00i voted you for an award..check out my blog...i voted you for an award..check out my blog...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33970956.post-78454041791524503912007-08-27T14:32:00.000+01:002007-08-27T14:32:00.000+01:00I remember coming across the great 'Lion of Munste...I remember coming across the great 'Lion of Munster' in A' Level RE. Our trendy teacher presented the situation in ‘30s Germany as one of Christian complicity with the Nazi regime, especially Catholic complicity. As you might expect from such a secularist, leftie teacher, the resistance movement focused heavily on the brave witness of the (excellent) pastor, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, but very little was said about Catholic opposition, such as ‘Mit Brennender Sorge’ and the witness of German Catholics, like Bishop Galen. <BR/><BR/>Needless to say, I brought this up and, in my attempt to readdress the balance, possibly went a little too far the other way, by pointing out that the Lutherans seemed much happier to ally themselves with Nazism, in the guise of Muller and Schachleitner and other leaders of the Protestant Reich Church. In retrospect, this was probably very unfair to many good Protestants, but it was born of a very deliberate and obvious attempt on behalf of the teacher (and syllabus?) to portray the Catholics as being the close friends of Nazism which (even though I was still a high Anglican at the time) infuriated me beyond belief. The teacher presented no evidence to confirm his argument or portrayal of the situation, save for a few pictures of various prelates and one of the Papal Nuncio with Hitler (I remember noting that these were all taken in the early ‘30s). We have pictures of Nixon with Mao and the Queen with Chauchesku, but we don’t imply that these meetings were anything other than routine state business – this was just plain mischief-making! The daffy teacher also lay great importance on the fact that Hitler was baptised a Catholic and that a Catholic upbringing often leads to the creation, in later life, of a heartless monster.<BR/><BR/>All this happened in the late ‘80s; I do wonder whether much has changed, for better or for worse!Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09272728729243811310noreply@blogger.com