Pope Francis warns against Hitler-like populism

So you need further background here. First if you look at the seats in the German Parliament that voted for the Enabling Act of 1933 which turned power over to Hitler. A large chunk of the seats were held by the German Catholic Party. Concordat was a follow-on agreement by the Nazi's to alleviate their concerns the Catholic Party would become a future resistance group. So they got the Church to agree not to participate anymore in political activities. After the Enabling Act the Church was concerned the next step of the Nazi's would be to ban the Catholic Church as the Communists had done, so fear of that motivated the Catholic Church into signing the agreement. The Church did get part of what it wanted in that it was allowed to continue it's religious activities in Nazi Germany as long as they were restricted to religious activities only. But the Church did not get all it wanted as each Bishop of the Catholic church had to take a loyalty oath to the President of the German Reich. Believe it or not the Concordat is still in force today and still followed by both the German Government and the Catholic Church. After the war in conformance with the Concordat the Catholics never reformed their past political party and still refuse to get involved in German Politics.

SPC Erich Guenther - It's not that I didn't read that, but chose to limit the size of the post. When I see a post the length of War and Peace, my eyes glaze over and I nod off. (Slight exaggeration)