The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news release…
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today denounced the cheap shot taken at the Catholic Church by U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
Upset that Pope Leo XIV had said the threatened erasure of Iranian civilization was unacceptable, Graham, in an interview with Sean Hannity (an apostate from the Catholic Faith) on the Fox News Channel on April 13th, said, referring to the Holy Father “You don’t understand the evil of Iran. You miscalculated here, Pope.”
Graham went on to say “And to the Catholic Church, God bless the Catholic Church, in the thirties, you didn’t really get Hitler. To the Pope, you really don’t get this religious Nazi regime, the Ayatollah and his henchman.”
The Catholic Action League called Graham’s remark about the Catholic Church and Adolph Hitler “snide derision, compounded by Olympian ignorance, resulting in a grotesque historical revisionism.”
Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle made the following comments:
“Somebody ought to tell Lindsey Graham that the Vatican ‘got’ Hitler long before anyone in South Carolina did.
In 1937, Britain and France were mired in disarmament and appeasement, while other European countries either practiced neutrality or actively collaborated with Nazi Germany.
The United States, by then, had completely withdrawn from European affairs.
That same year, on Passion Sunday, March 14th, Pope Pius XI released the first Papal Encyclical ever issued in the German language, Mit Brennender Sorge (With Burning Heart).
Smuggled into Nazi Germany and read from every Catholic pulpit on Palm Sunday, the encyclical was a condemnation of Nazi racial ideology.
In a frontal assault on Nazi master race theory, Pius wrote “Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State, or a particular form of State, or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental value of the human community… whoever raises these notions above their standard value and divinizes them to an idolatrous level, distorts and perverts an order of the world planned and created by God…”
The Pope accused the Nazis of waging a “war of extermination,“ against the Church, of seeking to suppress Catholic schools, and of trying to ban the Bible from German education.
This encyclical was issued a year before the Nazi annexation of Austria; eighteen months before Czechoslovakia was betrayed at Munich; and two years before the German occupation of Prague, when the rest of the world finally woke up to the Nazi threat.
Lindsey Graham may be a Southern Baptist, but he is an all points of the compass neo-con interventionist.
Most people already knew he was a warmonger. Now we also know that Graham is a reckless demagogue who panders to bigoted stereotypes.”
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