Concordats: Links

●  Reichskonkordat (with Hitler, 1933) 
●  Hitler's concordat betrays Catholic democrats
●  Just another neutral state: The Vatican in the Holocaust
●  German churches used slave labour
●  Von Papen, papal chamberlain and Nazi negotiator
●  The German churches before and after 1945
●  Vatican anti-Judaism and Nazi anti-Semitism
●  The “Jewish sow" on mediaeval German churches
●  "Mother's cross" and Maria cult
●  Links to pictures of the Nazis and the churches

In this excerpt Prof. Francis Messner looks at Germany, where relations between church and state are regulated by treaties. This means international "concordats" for the Catholic Church, and national "accords" for the other religious groups. In the last hundred years there have been three waves of these.

Fifteen concordats are currently in force in Germany at the national or state levels. (This doesn't count the large number about the establishment of individual dioceses, schools, theological faculties, etc.) The list is linked to the original German texts.

Germany professors have great power and prestige, and the concordat with Bavaria enlists these key people. It extends Church influence beyond the teaching of theology to include philosophy, pedagogy and the social sciences. Naturally, women and non-Catholics need not apply. Or even, it turns out, a top Catholic scholar who has criticised the Pope.