By Tod Worner, Catholic World Report, January 13, 2024
Tod Worner is a practicing internal medicine physician, serves as Managing Editor of Evangelization & Culture, the Journal of the Word on Fire Institute, and hosts The Evangelization & Culture Podcast.
The great philosopher was courageous and brilliant. But his greatest strength was his uncanny apprehension of the truth.
“Do you know that God has granted you a rare sensus supernaturalis (sense for the supernatural)? And do you realize clearly the responsibility that such a gift entails?”—Fr. Gustave Desbuquois to Dietrich von Hildebrand
“That damned Hildebrand is the greatest obstacle for National Socialism in Austria. No one causes more harm.”—Franz von Papen, Nazi Ambassador to Austria
It was pretty early when the Nazis recognized the threat posed by Dietrich von Hildebrand. Founded in 1919 by Anton Drexler, the German Workers’ Party was a militant nationalist response to the German surrender in the First World War, the ensuing Versailles Peace Treaty, and the pockets of revolutionary violence springing up throughout Germany. Later that year, a young, fiery German named Adolf Hitler would take the movement by storm with his rapier tongue and blistering rhetoric. By 1920, the party was re-branded the National Socialist German Worker’s Party and soon dubbed the Nazis. …
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