ALOIS Karl Hudal (1885-1963) was a German Catholic theologian and bishop in his prime during the rise of National Socialism in Germany.

American Reform at Substack has posted about Hudal’s important observations on the subject of race:

Hudal was an advocate of German nationalism and believed in the need for a reconciliation between Christianity and certain aspects of National Socialism. In 1937, he published Die Grundlagen des Nationalsozialismus (The Foundations of National Socialism), in which he sought to create a bridge between the Catholic Church and the German Reich. Years earlier, in defense of the Church, he played an instrumental role in securing a reproval of several anti-Christian National Socialist ideologues, notably Alfred Rosenberg and Ernst Bergmann. Their works, The Myth of the Twentieth Century and The German National Church, respectively, were condemned by the Holy Office, based on his analysis. His book on National Socialism, making a key distinction between Christian and unchristian strains in the movement, was delivered to Adolf Hitler, bearing the handwritten note of dedication, praising him as “the new Siegfried of German greatness”. This same work would receive an imprimatur from Cardinal Innitzer, an Austrian prelate, in 1937.

AR includes an excerpt from the book and it is highly relevant. Bishop Hudal wrote:

A solid racial science, a prudent racial care and therefore a racial protection within certain limits is something that is entirely desirable and necessary. But racial research must never become a playground for dilettantism. It would be regrettable if we Germans were to use racial research, which can provide valuable suggestions and observations of natural processes, to build ourselves a cultural, intellectual and religious Germanic ghetto. Let us therefore be careful not to see the question of race as the key to the whole of world history. Race is not everything and does not explain everything. I am in good company with this rejection, because one of the intellectual pioneers of National Socialism, Moeller van den Bruck, was perhaps the first to brilliantly recognize the weaknesses of radicalism in this young science.

Race is real and important to human identity, but not the most important thing in the scale of human values. Hudal warned against an excessive racial consciousness that appeared in some of the works of the National Socialists:

Many farming families in our Alpine countries, who have lived on their ancestral farms for hundreds of years, with 10 to 15 children who are Christian and nationally minded, do not give the impression that they have been racially degenerated in terms of their ideology. They show through their large offspring that they are racially much healthier than the many representatives of this racial science, who often barely have two children, although they could write very beautifully about the importance of race for our German people. [emphasis added]

Wow! Familiar, isn’t it?

Are the racial ideologues of today capable of inspiring their followers to have large families? And if they can’t do this, in what sense are they promoting the true good of the white race?

I highly recommend the excerpt in its entirety.

Please follow and like us: