Capitulation
an analysis of contemporary Catholicism
by Carl Amery
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Powerful, but powerless. Equipped with all the panoply of clerical 'influence', and yet hamstrung by an almost total 'capitulation' to the values of its milieu. For the author, this is the paradox of German Catholicism. The charge is serious, but he makes it stick. The notorious capitulation of German Catholicism to Hitler in 1933 is not to be shrugged off with superficial excuses ("the bishops were weak"): it was the inevitable response to German Catholicism as it had evolved historically to the particular circumstances. More alarmingly, nothing has changed. The next capitulation won't be so obvious or melodramatic, but it will be just as devastating--'the capitulation of healthy human understanding to national pique'. This is a German analysis of German Catholicism, but its method and its questions are of general applicatoin. English-speaking Catholicism may not have German Catholicism's 'position of influence'; but has it avoided capitulation to its milieu?
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History, Catholic church, history, World war, 1939-1945, collaborationists, Catholic ChurchPeople
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Translation of Die Kapitulation; oder, Deutscher Katholizismus heute.
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Amery interpretiert die Unterwerfung des deutschen Katholizismus unter das Hitler-Regime als eine Kapitulation des bürgerlich-katholischen »Milieus": Auch wenn die Kirchenführung 1933 entschieden opponiert hätte - was sie nicht tat -, wäre das »Milieu« nicht gewillt gewesen, »seine soziale Haut zu Markte zu tragen": »Die große Mehrheit derer, die man noch gutgesinnt nennen mochte, verweigerte von Anfang an die Widerstandsarbeit; besser gesagt, sie war gar nicht imstande dazu, weil ihr die seelischen und moralischen Voraussetzungen völlig fehlten.«
Deutschlands »Milieukatholizismus«, so meint der »Kapitulation«-Autor, habe wohl auch gehofft, »im 'allgemeinen 'Aufbruch der Nation' jene Feinde niederzuschlagen, die man vor allen anderen gefürchtet hatte: den Liberalismus, den Sozialismus - und die 'allgemeine Unsittlichkeit', das heißt die individuelle Emanzipation und ihre negativen Folgen. Vielleicht gelang es, mit einem Wort, die gute alte Ordnung wiederherzustellen«.
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