Cardinal Duka sparks outrage by claiming Catholic Church faces same pressure as under Nazism

Cardinal Dominik Duka, former archbishop of Prague, has sparked outrage with a post on social networks in which he compared efforts to legalize marriage for all to the war in Ukraine and claimed that both Christians and Jews now "face the same pressure as they did under Nazism". The cardinal wrote that the human being most at threat is not the Ukrainian soldier, but the unborn child who needs a union between a man and a woman. "Yes, the war in Ukraine is terrible, but the war in the West is just as terrible," Duka said. Rabbi David Maxa published an open letter in response to Duka's post, in which he said that the cardinal’s stance was a "massive distortion of the facts" and asked him not to speak for the Jewish community.