:::::::::::::::::There is somewhat of a historical "precedent" here (though the analogy is not perfect, I will admit): the ''Reichskonkordant''. The Catholic Centre Party (''Zentrum'') was the last organized bulwark comprising a plenteous "liberal" democratic opposition to Hitler. However, the pact between right-wing clerical fascist (and later Nazi Party official) von Papen and Eugenio Pacelli (later "Pope Pius XII"), concurrent with the dissolution of Zentrum, handed the ultramontane fascist-reactionary faction over to the Nazis while leaving the liberal-democratic faction of political Catholicity without a platform to pose a formidable blockade to Hitler. Leo H. Lehmann's ''[https://archive.org/details/LeoHerbertLehmanBehindTheDictators Behind the Dictators]'' (1942) explains a bit of it, and probably Edmond Paris's ''[https://archive.org/details/secret-history-of-the-jesuits-1983-edmund-paris The Secret History of the Jesuits]'' (1983) as well. —[[User:LT|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:LT|<sup>Rev. 22:13</sup>]]''''' Monday, 22:36, August 25, 2024 (EDT) | :::::::::::::::::There is somewhat of a historical "precedent" here (though the analogy is not perfect, I will admit): the ''Reichskonkordant''. The Catholic Centre Party (''Zentrum'') was the last organized bulwark comprising a plenteous "liberal" democratic opposition to Hitler. However, the pact between right-wing clerical fascist (and later Nazi Party official) von Papen and Eugenio Pacelli (later "Pope Pius XII"), concurrent with the dissolution of Zentrum, handed the ultramontane fascist-reactionary faction over to the Nazis while leaving the liberal-democratic faction of political Catholicity without a platform to pose a formidable blockade to Hitler. Leo H. Lehmann's ''[https://archive.org/details/LeoHerbertLehmanBehindTheDictators Behind the Dictators]'' (1942) explains a bit of it, and probably Edmond Paris's ''[https://archive.org/details/secret-history-of-the-jesuits-1983-edmund-paris The Secret History of the Jesuits]'' (1983) as well. —[[User:LT|<code><span style="background:#FF8181">'''LT'''</span></code>]] '''''[[User talk:LT|<sup>Rev. 22:13</sup>]]''''' Monday, 22:36, August 25, 2024 (EDT) |