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Entry: A New Humanism in Europe Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_new_humanism_in_europe#6176 Post contents: Engelbert Dollfuss was NOT a "clerical fascist"!! To place him in the same catergory with Msgr. Tiso is to ignore both history and the fact that he was assassinated BY NAZIS, and NEVER COLLABORATED WITH THEM! Mr. Cundiff, your history is way off here. Chancellor Dollfuss was forced into a violent confrontation with the "Reds" in Vienna; he was not per se "antisemtic" (although in your view apparently anyone who disagrees with Abe Foxman is an "antisemite"); he (and later Chancellor Schussnigg) were heroes and continue to be so to Catholics, and Dollfuss was a martyr to both the Faith and to Austrian independence. You, sir, should ashamed for your calumny. It is "Christian Democracy"--largely post-World War II-- that is greatly responsible for the "apertura a la siniestra" and the weakened defense of Christian and Catholic institutions and culture in Europe. Compromise, which is the hallmark of Christian Democracy over the years, has a trail of disasters, just as the "fruit" of Vatican II has been secularization, de-Catholicisation, and the end of Catholic states and societies. All of this, by the way, violates in the most severe fashion the constant teachings of the popes on society and the constitution of states and government, especially but not excluding Gregory XVI (in Mirari Vos), the Blessed Pius IX (in Quanta Cura and the Syllabus), Leo XIII (in Libertus, Diuturm, Immortale Dei, etc.), St. Pius X (in Pascendi and Notre Charge Apostolique), Pius XI (in Quadragesimo Anno), and Pius XII (in various). You prescription is a prescription for more of the same...NO thank you! Sent at: 2008 11 22