Is it a surprise? The Roman Catholic Church signed the Lateran Treaty with Germany, which restored its temporal power AKA recognition of Vatican City as a country.
The Roman Catholic Church provided the false documents used by the Nazis smuggled out of Germany to the US as part of Operation Paper Clip as well.
Edit: Reichskonkordat, not Lateran Treaty, was name of treaty between Vatican and Germany, and was signed by Cardinal Pacelli, the eventual Pope Pius XII, in 1933.
the vatican also worked with its priests to help smuggle many jews out of the german occupied territories while acting as though they were cooperating with the nazis. but we wont talk about that because that sheds a good light on catholics.
Is it a surprise? The Roman Catholic Church signed the Lateran Treaty with Germany, which restored its temporal power AKA recognition of Vatican City as a country.
The Roman Catholic Church provided the false documents used by the Nazis smuggled out of Germany to the US as part of Operation Paper Clip as well.
Edit: Reichskonkordat, not Lateran Treaty, was name of treaty between Vatican and Germany, and was signed by Cardinal Pacelli, the eventual Pope Pius XII, in 1933.
the vatican also worked with its priests to help smuggle many jews out of the german occupied territories while acting as though they were cooperating with the nazis. but we wont talk about that because that sheds a good light on catholics.
The Lateran Treaty was between the RC Church and Mussolini's Italy in 1929, 4 years before Hitler and the Nazis came to power.