While not all conservatives are authoritarians; all highly authoritarian personalities are political conservatives.
Robert Altmeyer - The Authoritarians
In the February 29, 1929 edition of the
Völkischer Beobachter (official newspaper of the Nazi Party), Adolf Hitler published an article on the new Lateran Treaty between Mussolini's fascist government and the Vatican. According to Hitler, this treaty should demonstrate to the world that not only are fascism and Christianity not polar opposites, but that they are in fact close kin which should be working together:
"The fact that the Curia is now making its peace with Fascism shows that the Vatican trusts the new political realities far more than did the former liberal democracy with which it could not come to terms.
...The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ...proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic Marxism, to which the so-called Catholic Center Party sees itself so closely bound, to the detriment of Christianity today and our German people."
Note Hitler's use of the phrase "Jewish liberalism." An important aspect of modern political anti-Semitism was the ability to associate Jews with everything conservative Christians disliked about modernity: emancipation (of women, Jews, gays, and other minorities), the loss of Christian privileges, legalized contraception and abortion, easier divorces, sexual liberty, socialist economic policies, expanding capitalism, etc. Conservative Christianity has never come entirely to terms with the Enlightenment and modern political liberalism.