From: HealantHenry-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 16:04:41 EDT
Subject: Re: Communism, Grundrisse, was Germanism



In a message dated 5/4/03 3:36:47 PM, borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com writes:

>The RC has not excommunicated Hitler because Hitler was not an RC. Have
>to be an RC to be excommunicated.

Constantine's Sword, p44:  "We knew enough to contrast Pius XII's silence in 
relation to Nazism with his forthright condemnations of Communism, including 
his 1949 excommunication, "at a stroke," of Communist Party members 
everywhere in the world.18  [18. Kung, Hans, Judaism: Between Yesterday and 
Tomorrow, p256.]  Yet not even Hitler was ever excommunicated, and it shamed 
us to realize only now that the German dictator died still on the rolls of 
the Roman Catholic Church into which he had been baptized as an infant.19  
[19. One way to account for Hitler's not having been excommunicated is that 
the Church takes such drastic action to combat "wrong thinking" more than 
"wrong acting." The theologian Bernard J. Lee,S.M., comments, "To some 
extent, it is a function of the western deep story that Arius, Martin Luther, 
George Tyrrell, and Leonard Feeney were excommunicated, and Hitler was not." 
But such a distinction assumes that Hitler's actions were not rooted in 
"wrong thinking," and the Church saw no such dichotomy when it came to 
communism. Lee, Jesus and the metaphors of God, p89.]  

...and one wonders, to take Lee's "deep story" functionality, why our man 
heidegger wasn't excommunicated, as all he ever did was think...
hen


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