No, he by and large was not. You don’t make a Concordact with people you are blessing. You make it with people you can barely stand but want to patch up wounds with
Moreover Pius used subsidiaries or proxies like Cardinal von Galen of Muenster to speak against the Nazi Party when he felt he didn’t have enough coverage to do it.
As a Protestant and history nerd there’s plenty I can bitch about with the Catholic Church and the Popes- especially now- but it used to be rather rare that Popes openly sucked off socialist superpowers.
No, he by and large was not. You don’t make a Concordact with people you are blessing. You make it with people you can barely stand but want to patch up wounds with
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4551&context=open_access_etds
Moreover Pius used subsidiaries or proxies like Cardinal von Galen of Muenster to speak against the Nazi Party when he felt he didn’t have enough coverage to do it.
https://www.historyplace.com/speeches/galen.htm
As a Protestant and history nerd there’s plenty I can bitch about with the Catholic Church and the Popes- especially now- but it used to be rather rare that Popes openly sucked off socialist superpowers.