Italian philosopher Umberto Eco claims papacy was traditionally anti-German

Martin Luther's revolt against the Church of Rome gained firm purchase among the German people in part due to the perception that the papacy was traditionally biased toward the German nation.

Here is an excerpt from an interview with Eco published Sept. 28 in La Nacion, one of the main Argentinean dailies based in Buenos Aires:

"Responding to a question as to whether he was surprised that the pope, for the first time in more than a millennium, was not a European, Eco recalled that 'it (the papacy) went out of Italy' with the election of Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II) in 1978, and prior to that the last non-Italian pope was Hadrian V from Utrecht in 1552.  “When it happened with Wojtyla it was something new that showed that the Church was no longer an Italian power against the Germanic empire, as it had been in the previous centuries, it was something universal."

www.lanacion.com.ar/1624017-umberto-eco-francisco-es-el-papa-del-mundo-de-la-globalizacion

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Martin Luther and “Zinskauf"

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Lead article:

"Martin Luther and Zinskauf": The German Reformation in the Context of the Struggle over Usury.” 

This study was intended for inclusion in Hoffman's book Usury in Christendom and is now published for the first time.

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"The Good War and the Holocaust Against the Germans" (an in-depth review of the book, Orderly and Humane by R.M. Douglas).

"The Gungrabbers and Sandy Hook." An analysis of the latest incremental step in the goal of gradually disarming the American people.

"Faking the Execution of Osama bin Laden"

"The Budget Deficit at Home: Enslaving America with Personal Debt"

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Usury and Anti-Usury in England and Puritan New England

Latest installment in Michael Hoffman’s ongoing study of usury, the mortal sin that was, and now is not:

REVISIONIST HISTORY NEWSLETTER NO. 55

 "Usury and Anti-Usury in Renaissance England and Early Puritan New England”

 •In-depth challenge to the thesis of Max Weber in his famous book, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.

•Exhaustively documents the suppressed history of the early Puritan struggle to abolish usury.

•Uncovers the Catholic roots of the legal theory of usury in the "Nominalist" school of philosophy.

•Analyzes the usury views of John Calvin and Martin Luther and the laws of English Kings Henry VIII, Edward VI, James I and Charles I, as well as Queen Elizabeth.

•Hoffman shows that far from being miserly propagators of a usurious "prosperity gospel," early Puritan leaders and preachers such as John Winthrop and John Cotton and hundreds of others, fought unjust prices and interest on loans with heroic fortitude.

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•Also includes a section on: "Puritanism and Yankee Abolitionism: Setting the Record Straight.”

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