Not even a good try, Marty. <<The connection ends there>>? It is to laugh.

Your feeble attempts at deflection and barely-disguised extracts from google searches hardly settle the matter. Bob is quite right that Hitler's antipathy toward bolshevism encouraged Pius XI to seek the rapprochement that would result in the Reichskonkordat. By the time Pius experienced a crisis of conscience about the church's accommodations with fascist dictators and endeavored to present a critique of Mussolini to the bishops, he was dying and the future Pius XII and then Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli sabotaged his efforts. There was indeed a powerful anti-Semitic, anti-democratic faction within the Vatican sympathetic to fascism, and Pacelli was their front man.

But since your overriding ethic is apologetics and not the complexities of history, think I'll start skipping your posts.