I can only summarize it now, and I will do so as tersely as I can.
First, fascism, the original 20th century totalitarian movement, is really,
historically, another name for the political activity of the Catholic right
wing.
There is no other name for it.
Francoism, Salazarism, what happened in Croatia, in Austria, in Bavaria,
and so on.
The Church keeps on trying to apologize for it, can't apologize for it enough.
It's the Catholic right, Mussolini.
You can't quite say that about Hitler, National Socialism, because that's also
based on Nordic and Pagan blood myths, leader worship, and so on.
Though Hitler never repudiated his membership of the Church.
And prayers were said for him on his birthday, every year till the very end,
on the orders of the Vatican.
And all of these facts are well known, and the Church still hasn't found another
way to apologize for that enough.
And whatever it is, you can call that, you can't call it secular.
You may not call it secular.
By the way, Joseph Goebbels was excommunicated from the Catholic Church.
Fifty percent, according to Paul Johnson, the Catholic historian of the Waffen-SS,
were confessing Catholics.
None of them was ever threatened with excommunication, even threatened for it,
with it, for taking part in the Final Solution.
But Joseph Goebbels was excommunicated for marrying a Protestant.
You see, we do have our standards.