Is it possible that Hitler could have captured Pius XII?

I've heard many theories that Hitler and the nazi's wanted to capture Pope Pius XII- I heard that Himmler even wanted him to be publicly executed before a soccer match (though I doubt this would happen- I could see Hitler keeping him prisoner or something but not killing him)

So what would the Catholic reaction be to this? Also would this affect the war in any way other than western nations could use it as propaganda by making it a holy war- Or is it just something that kind of happens
 
Hitler was stupid but not so stupid. Even he did understand that capturing of leader of Catholics would be extremely bad idea. He wouldn't only ruin relationships with Italy, he would too make about half of Germans very angry.
 
Hitler was a lapsed Catholic, just because Himmler thought a war on Christianity in Europe was a good idea doesn't mean it was exactly shared.
 
Capture the pope?
Nazis had dozens of opportunities to capture the pope, but they did not because they saw the Catholic Church as a useful aid to power. The Catholic Church was good at training young Germans about faith and loyalty and submission to a higher authority .... all useful traits in young soldiers. Nazis saw the Catholic Church as an awkward instrument of power that sometimes helped and sometimes contradicted the Nazi Party. But they expected the Catholic Church to wither away over the next couple of hundred years the same way Russian Communists hoped the Eastern Orghodox Church would wither on the vine.
Hitler was more of a lapsed-Catholic. He continued to pay his church taxes, but was rarely seen in churches or chatting with priests.
Martin Borman was the keenest to eliminate the Pope, but wiser Nazis restrained him.
In the long run, Nazis wanted German Catholics to shift thier allegiance away from thier imaginary friend in the sky to a flesh-and-blood man walking this earth (German soil) in the living-and-breathing Adolf Hitler.

Sorry if the last paragraph sounded sardonic or atheistic or verged on hero-worship.
 
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