I hesitated to link to this article, firstly because it is non-Catholic publication (Lyndon Larouche's Executive Intelligence Review) interviewing a senior Churchman and portraying him in a rather negative light. The interview is with Archbishop Pintonello, the highest ranking member of the Church not to sign Vatican II.
However it does pertain to the discussion.
The interview is titled a "A Jesuit calls for a New Adolf Hitler." (1982)
http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1982/eirv09n44-19821116/eirv09n44-19821116_024-honorary_military_archbishop_arr.pdf
It seems very unlikely that those are accurate quotations, given the source. Even then, they are presented as if they are direct quotations, so my opinion of the Archbishop is mixed. On the one hand, it seems impossible to argue against his call for the end of "Christian Democracy," the defeat of socialism, and the return of peace to Europe under the aegis and hegemony of a strong Catholic monarchy. Likewise, he is of course correct about the postwar liberal social order advancing the corruption and degeneration of Europe and the entire world, as well as the economic crisis being an opportunity for the dissolution of the evil order mentioned. Where he goes wrong, however, is in his admiration for Adolf Hitler and National Socialism, his alleged membership in the Thule Society, and in his belief in Nordic/Germanic/Anglo-Saxon racial superiourity, which, besides being non-Catholic ideas the origins of which are found deep in the Protestant and Germanic psyche (which is evidently deeply disordered given the history of the past five hundred years), they also seem rather difficult to justify
prima facie or even after extensive discussion. Then again, he is Venetian, and there is a history of people from the northern Italy becoming misguided and over-eager partisans of the German emperors, in all of their pretensions, even to the point of helping the emperors in their historic crimes against the Pope and against other Catholic powers. Dante Alighieri is a famous example. Anyway, there are other strange ideas, such as his support for Otto von Habsburg and the Habsburg dynasty generally.
Imperialism (of the German variety) is a rather strange and dangerous ideology. ManoftheWest was a believer in it, as are some other people I have encountered, and it seems to make its supporters generally prone to many non-Catholic ideas and attitudes, such as the subjection of the Roman Pontiff to the German emperor, the superiority of the Germanic races, some sort of imagined special affinity between Italians and Germans in their interests and destinies, support for lay investiture, and, generally, enthusiasm for everything that pertains to the Renaissance and all of its filth and decadent offspring. In the Caesaropapism of these people, we can immediately recognise that same discomfort with the role of the Church versus the civil authority as enunciated by Pope Boniface VIII that would have made the German princes so eager to follow Luther. The theory has a strong whiff of Protestantism surrounding it; I really do believe that it will play a strong role in the reign of the Antichrist and in his propaganda. He will be the anti-Great Monarch, the anti-King of France, the brutalistic imperial dictator whose followers -- young men, I imagine -- will champion all of the great heresies and moral abominations in the name of perverted natural goods and a misunderstanding of the Church's glorious past. The role of men and the father, for instance, will be used to justify seducing women, disobeying tradition, polygamy, sɛҳuąƖ perversion, the political role of the emperor against the priests and against their royal advocates, the role of "the Race" and "the Nation", the role of the emperor in some sort of cosmic natural order (which will cause him to be worshipped as an idol), &c. It's all there.
It seems like Raoul is right about this being a problem; I have recently noticed the same trends as he has and they seem far more threatening than liberalism has been, since they are far more intellectually coherent and defensible than liberalism is. After all, liberalism has already been philosophically defeated; now we only have to do the legwork to get to the next resting point on our pilgrimage. But these new theories, these new movements that are quietly festering... these will have to be fought against in the future. They will have similar results as the Revolution, but there will be a much darker and harsher tone. Look at the days of Frederick II von Hohenstaufen, pretended heir of Charlemagne's realm, for a foretaste of what is in store for our descendants. This was in the great XIIIth century of all times, when Frederick II, one of the foulest of all men, was able to sack Rome, murder priests, conquer the Holy Land and jointly declare religious liberty with the Mohammedans, attempt to interrupt a Council, threaten to kill the Pope, mock God and our holy religion, rape and pillage, and do all of these things for his own pagan vainglory, à la Julian the Apostate, with enthusiastic collaborators who claimed to be Catholics themselves. This was in the time of Saint Louis, Saint Francis, Saint Dominic, Saint Thomas, Saint Bonaventure, and so forth. If it happened then, it could happen at any time.
It is too bad that Archbishop Pintonello latched on to this movement; surely he had a different idea of it than my own, but I, for one, cannot understand how somebody could not be shocked and repulsed by the claims, history, and theory of the Imperialist party and their leaders, the German emperors. Perhaps he was strongly influenced by his culture and the roots of his nobility; I cannot blame him, really, if he saw something of his family's legacy in playing the role he chose vis-à-vis the German emperors. That doesn't mean I can agree with it. Like I said, however, the Archbishop seems partly right about some things. Not everything Hitler did was bad, and some of it was good, but the enemy of our enemies is not our friend, contrary to what many today seem to believe (and many on this forum). Indeed, Hitler was an enemy of Christendom.