Original sentence: "2  On the other hand, the Concordat prohibited clerics from engaging in any political activity whatsoever, a standard prohibition in a period where church leaders had their attitudes on democratic participation influenced by attudes of Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors and Pope Pius X's hostility to Catholic democrat participation, but which complicated Catholic resistance to the Nazi regime, as it has in the past Catholic participation in the French Third Republic, Italian democracy and later Catholic resistence from the 1920s to the Mussolini regime.Most critics regard the Church relationship towards the nazi regime was not substantially different to that it established with other states, regimes and governments
Edited sentence: "2  On the other hand, the Concordat prohibited clerics from engaging in any political activity whatsoever, which complicated Catholic resistance to the Nazi regime.Most critics do acknowledge that the Church relationship towards the nazi regime was not substantially more or less friendly than to other non-communist nations and states