Nazi Stormtroopers Versus the Soldiers of Christ
Caesar, like the poor, is always with us. So is Judas. And so are the disciples of Christ. The Tyrant, the Traitor, and the Martyr. These three types of men form the very threads from which the tapestry of history is woven.
Caesar and his followers come in many philosophical shapes and many ideological guises, but they are always animated by the same spirit of secularism, the same spirit of worldliness. They idolize the spirit of the age, the zeitgeist, and they are always at war with the Holy Spirit, the Heiliger Geist. In the 19th century, the followers of Caesar were formed by the fashionable philosophies of Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche. In the 20th century, these philosophies morphed into the ideological monsters of Marxism and Nazism, the former inciting communist revolutions in many parts of the world and the latter possessing the German soul with diabolical pride. The Nazis, following the example of the Italian Fascists, adopted the Roman salute, the open-hand raised aloft as a sign of loyalty to Adolf Hitler, the New Caesar, and to the Thousand Year Reich, the New Empire, that Hitler had promised and proclaimed.
In response to the rise of the new secularist monsters, Pope Pius XI condemned both the Nazis and the communists. In two encyclicals, issued a week apart in 1937, he condemned the Nazi government in Germany for its persecution of Catholics, its racism and anti-Semitism, and for its tribal neo-paganism. In the e
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