Did Hitler order kidnapping of Pope?

A Catholic newspaper in Italy reports that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler had given one of his generals a direct order to kidnap Pope Pius XII during World War II, but the officer did not obey him. The new details of the plot are contained in documents presented to the Vatican, supporting claims for the controversial wartime Pontiff to be regognised as a saint. The paper "Avvenire" writes that Hitler feared the Pope would be an obstacle to his plans for global domination. Hitler also wanted to eventually abolish Christianity and impose National Socialism as a kind of new global religion. The newspaper says that in 1944, shortly before the Germans retreated from Rome, SS General Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff, a senior Nazi officer in Italy, was ordered by Hitler to kidnap the Pope. "Avvenire's" account comes a few weeks after a document was found in Roman Catholic archives that has revived the debate about the Vatican's attempt, under Pius' tenure, to keep hold of some Jewish children who were baptized as part of efforts to save them from the Nazis.