Pope’s Praise of Pius Dismays Holocaust Survivors
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ROME (AP) — A Holocaust survivors group has voiced dismay over Pope Benedict XVI’s assertion in a new book that wartime pontiff Pius XII was a “great righteous” man who saved more Jews than anyone else.
Benedict’s “comments fill us with pain and sadness and cast a menacing shadow on Vatican-Jewish relations,” said Elan Steinberg, vice president of American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, in an emailed statement late Saturday.
Some contend Pius didn‘t speak out enough against mass deportation and killing of 6 million Jews by Germany’s Nazi regime and its collaborators.
In “Light of the World,” to be published on Tuesday, Benedict lavishes praise on Pius, who progressed down the Vatican‘s road to possible sainthood when the pope last year formally hailed his predecessor’s “heroic virtues.”
He notes pleas from Jewish groups and historians that sainthood efforts be put on hold until the Vatican opens up its archives on the 1939-1958 papacy. The Vatican says the documents, which Benedict says number in the “hundreds of thousands,” will be opened up to scholars when archival work is ready, likely in a few years.
Benedict reveals in the book that he “ordered an inspection of the unpublished archival records, because I wanted to be absolutely sure.“ The ”records confirm the positive things we know, but not the negative things that are alleged.”
“The decisive thing is what he did and what he tried to do, and on that score, we really must acknowledge, I believe, that he was one of the great righteous men and that he saved more Jews than anyone else,” Benedict said, offering perhaps his most sweeping praise of Pius’ papacy to date.
But Steinberg contended that that assertion “is categorically contradicted by the known historical record.”
Neither Benedict nor Steinberg cited numbers.
An Israeli diplomat, Pinchas Lapide, wrote in 1967 that Pius and the Catholic church should be credited with saving between 700,000 and 860,000 Jews from certain death. Holocaust scholars dismiss the figure as guesswork.
If Pius becomes a saint, that would create an “unfathomable breach” in Catholic-Jewish relations, Steinberg said. “Pius’ silence during the Holocaust was a profound moral failure,” he said.
Benedict reiterated the Vatican position that protesting publicly against the Germany occupiers of Rome would have endangered the lives of Jews who were sheltered in convents and monasteries.
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gatekeeper96740
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:58pmhttp://www.amazon.com/Myth-Hitlers-Pope-Against-Germany/dp/0895260344/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1290390983&sr=1-1
Rabbi Dalin is a credible source both because of his Jewish identity and because of his academic credentials which include a doctorate from Brandeis University. He refutes in page after page of documented facts the great and repeated lie that Pope Pius XII was sympathetic to the Nazis. The truth that emerges again and again from each documented fact is that Pius XII spoke out against Nazi racism both before and after he became pope, that Pius XII instructed papal diplomats to aid persecuted Jews in the occupied nations of Europe, that he contributed money to aid desperate Jews, that he opened Catholic facilities in the Vatican and in other parts of Rome and Italy to shelter thousands of Jews from the Nazis, and that he gave direct face-to-face orders to protect Jews from the Nazis. This book is so well documented that Pius’s detractors have to either put up or shut up. In fact, the detractors should apologize and formally retract their slanders. Of the many outrageous slanders against Pius XII, one in particular stands out to show the level of distortion used by the haters of this Pope. Rabbi Dalin recounts how Pius hater John Cornwell even uses a misleading cover for his book Hitler’s Pope that makes it seem to the uninformed reader that Pius, who was then the papal nuncio (ambassador) to Germany, is just exiting from a meeting with the Nazis when in fact the picture is from 1927, well before Hitler took power, and in fact shows the future Pius XII, in the course of his formal diplomatic duties, emerging from a diplomatic reception for the elected President of Germany in 1927 during the democratic and pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (pp. 62-63). The book reads quickly, gets to the point, and has copious footnotes and a convenient index. Rabbi Dalin has performed a righteous deed. For a more detailed review, see my website link above.
Report Post »nostromo
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:50pmPeople should lay aside their anti catholicism and go to the primary sources and not rely on articles or opinions written by others. If you do this, you will discover two things. First, prominent Jews who were contemporaries of Pius praised him after the war for saving Jews. Second, discrediting the Catholic Church is a communist obsession.
Report Post »Jimmmy
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:20pmI’ve yet to see any evidence that the Pope tried to stop George Soros sending Jews to the camps. I’m going to withhold judgment until I hear what Glenn has to say about this.
Report Post »JEANNIEMAC
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 7:35pmThe Pope was in the Vatican. The Vatican is in Rome. Rome is in Italy. Italy was at war with the United States and our allies. German soldiers patrolled the streets of Rome. The Pope ordered religious houses to take in Jewish people and hide them. He had many more Jews hidden under the Vatican in the catacombs. Baptismal certificates were issued for many Jewish people for their ID. The pope spoke out about the treatment of Jews, with the result that more were taken. He was warned that if he said too much, the Jews and Christians would suffer more.
Report Post »Because a nun offered verifiable evidence, does not disqualify the evidence. Check for yourselves.
I am for real
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 5:50pmReligion is man made. Christanity is a person. Jesus. That one whom died for ALL. Religion accommodates mans personal freedom in which he can live with, and think that he is not a sinner. Someone must fullfill the role of false prophet and world religion in the false trinity of the future.
Report Post »Seasoldier
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 5:15pmPope St. Pius X and his successor, Pope Pius XII, were the lone voices of their time standing in opposition to the Fascists, Nazis and Communists who were the scourge of the 20th century. Those interested in the truth should consult the exhaustive research available at http://www.catholicleague.org/pius.php
Report Post »While leaders like FDR and Churchill ignored the plight of the European Jews, Pius XII was directing convents, monasteries, and bishops to do all they could to protect and assist the Jews. Even the New York Times and Rome’s leading Rabbi at the time recognized Pope Pius XII as a defender of the Jews. This malicious misinformation campaign and character assassination should be brought to an end.
ElAnneinPA
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:41pmNever mind that Pope Pius actually saved 800K Jews and worked underground to stem off the damages of the Nazis.
http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Hitlers-Pope-Against-Germany/dp/0895260344
Take time to listen to a rabbi’s rebuttal of all the lies the press has frequently told about Pius XII (which a lot of commentators on here sadly bought into, it seems).
Report Post »wonderbug
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:27pmI looked into Sr. Margherita and sounds to me like she’s done her homework. She met Pius XII, and she says he had a very good reputation until something called “the deputy” maligned him. You can listen for yourself. It takes about 2 minutes before Sr. Margherita is introduced.
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFTt693dzHI
wonderbug
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:44pmSr. Margherita (written 10 books about Pius XII) explains that announcements of condemnation lead to more deaths (of Catholics too). So what Pius XII did was encourage Catholics to hide the Jewish people, as many as they were to hide. Says 5,000 were hidden in Rome, and another historian (Pinkas?) cites that over 800,000 were saved due to the pope’s actions in other places. Pius XII even created fake certificates of baptism to try to protect the Jews. It’s really interesting.
Report Post »wonderbug
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:57pmLastly, Sr. Margherita says the Nazis hated the Catholics for hiding the Jews. So, the Nazis would enter a village, get everybody to come to the church, and then bomb the church. Fr. Pacwa says that he loves her books because she documents everything. Says there’s footnotes so that readers can go look things up for themselves.
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:23pmRCC= they that have Lucifers Seat, power and great authority, and the First and Last socialist/religeous political group.
chrisser
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:09pmI’m not saying that Pius was a saint, but many here ought to keep in mind that the Vatican was stripped of it’s property holdings and confined to Vatican city where it was surrounded by fascist Italy, controlled by Mussolini – an ally of Hitler.
Some people here speak as if the Vatican were located in Milwaukee during the 30s and 40s – completely isolated from the war, with easy access to free communication and without concern for reprisal for itself and for those affiliated with it.
Report Post »jefferson state
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:25pmThis is a really good point. If Pius is guilty of anything, he’s guilty of trying to save his own skin and the skins of others in the Vatican. “Religious immunity” just doesn‘t cut it when you’re surrounded by violence.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:58pmCHRISSER Sums it up and before we were at war most Americans were not that keen about stopping Germany.If the Vatican were located in Milwaukee it might not have made much difference.
Report Post »joseph Fawcett
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:03pmHow far has the Roman Catholic Church fallen since those days in WWII. I was catholic, even was a monk for a short time. I don’t see the inspiration in the catholic church as it had when I was a boy. Times are changing and the Catholic church will head up the one world church. It is coming soon, very soon.
http://www.josephfawcettart.com western artist
Report Post »wesleyapril
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 1:44pmJoseph,
Report Post »Loved your comment! :)
RadioEscucha
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:02pmThe reality is that there will always be those elements who are more radical and will continue their desire to perpetuate their belief. The circumstances surrounding The Church at the time were very dicey. Monday morning quarterbacking now is easy to do.
Report Post »It is sad that human beings comitted the attrocities against their fellow men, and the pain and suffering generated is very much still raw, and there are people whose anger, disgust and fury is still palpable. God bless us all.
sullinsea
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 3:31pmReasonable people can and do disagree about whether Pope Pius XII could or should have done more to save Jews from the holocaust at the hands of the national socialists. Perhaps release of the archives in a few years will make the historic record clearer. For now, the question appears to be “how much more could the Roman Catholic Church have done” given its unarmed position surrounded by fascist and national socialist troops, as well as the acknowledged vicious retaliation that would have been meted out to Catholic priests in the wake of more public condemnation. It reminds me somewhat of the criticism levelled against the U.S.A. for not opening a second front in Western Europe earlier than D-Day. If it was successful it might have saved lives. But it could have resulted in defeat and complete genocide of all Jews and Catholics.
A thoughtful Jewish perspective:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/pius.html#conclusion
And a defense of Pope Pius XII:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/piusdef.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/piusdef2.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/piusdef1.html
I find it interesting how much anti-Catholic bigotry and vituperation against Catholicism nd Catholics is exhibited in these comments and others whenever the Chrurch comes into the news.
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 3:18pmI don’t know the man personally, so I won’t attempt a judgement. But it is certain he must have been carful not to say too much as the backlash from Hitler would have resulted in the persecution of Catholics. If they gave refuge to Jews in their convents then actions speak louder than words.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 3:01pmhonestly I do not understand the catholic faith. I will never understand why the pope is SO important. he is ONLY Human. yes Pius should have done more but hind sight is always 20/20 should this Pope do more to smooth over relations with the Jews.. yes he should but he seems unable to bring himself to do so. I fully understand the Jewis outrage at the Catholics and frankly other faiths as well. The horors that have been visited upon these people are unthinkible to me. I have NO frame of refrence. Thank God..
Report Post »hoij
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 3:00pmRead “A Woman Rides the Beast” and you will understand how Pope Pius was one of the most evil men to ever live. People judge a Pope by how he speaks to crowds and what he writes in books, but his actions were as devestating to the Jews as Hitlers. He signed treaties with Hitler so the Church could still make money in exchange he woud do nothing to stop Hitler and he helped the worst Nazis escape Germany and come to America. If you are Catholic or not you should speak out against the evil this man has done because he makes a mockery of both Jews and Catholics alike.
APatriotFirst
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 3:11pm@TheGreyPiper
No white hood here, just 30 years of WW II history and knowledge.
@HOIJ…..I have read, watched and talked to those who were there. WW II fascinates me.
Report Post »The atrocoties done to many people have been made to seem small. But no one can change history. Just ask any Jewish survivor. Your post is true.
snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 3:48pm@APatriotFirst
I have talked directly with a survivor of the Rape of Nanking by the japanese army and her stories are the stuff of the worst nightmares. Two other deceased veterans, one was my dads father, told first hand of the devastation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Both were POWs in the war, from the beginning, and detailed graphically what they had been through and witnessed.
We must never forget the past, nor must we fail to learn from it either.
Report Post »gatekeeper96740
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 9:04pmhttp://www.amazon.com/Myth-Hitlers-Pope-Against-Germany/dp/0895260344
Rabbi Dalin is a credible source both because of his Jewish identity and because of his academic credentials which include a doctorate from Brandeis University. He refutes in page after page of documented facts the great and repeated lie that Pope Pius XII was sympathetic to the Nazis. The truth that emerges again and again from each documented fact is that Pius XII spoke out against Nazi racism both before and after he became pope, that Pius XII instructed papal diplomats to aid persecuted Jews in the occupied nations of Europe, that he contributed money to aid desperate Jews, that he opened Catholic facilities in the Vatican and in other parts of Rome and Italy to shelter thousands of Jews from the Nazis, and that he gave direct face-to-face orders to protect Jews from the Nazis. This book is so well documented that Pius’s detractors have to either put up or shut up. In fact, the detractors should apologize and formally retract their slanders. Of the many outrageous slanders against Pius XII, one in particular stands out to show the level of distortion used by the haters of this Pope. Rabbi Dalin recounts how Pius hater John Cornwell even uses a misleading cover for his book Hitler’s Pope that makes it seem to the uninformed reader that Pius, who was then the papal nuncio (ambassador) to Germany, is just exiting from a meeting with the Nazis when in fact the picture is from 1927, well before Hitler took power, and in fact shows the future Pius XII, in the course of his formal diplomatic duties, emerging from a diplomatic reception for the elected President of Germany in 1927 during the democratic and pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (pp. 62-63). The book reads quickly, gets to the point, and has copious footnotes and a convenient index. Rabbi Dalin has performed a righteous deed. For a more detailed review, see my website link above.
Report Post »KStret
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 3:19amI am a big Dave Hunt fan and I have been meaning to get that book. What did source did he use for the Pope info?
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:56pmWhat is Steinberg’s known historical record? If one is going to destroy another, one had better be able to prove any allegations with absolute facts… unless you are a part of our news media propaganda machine
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:55pmDont worry, GOD is about to deal with the Catholic Chuch,,and all the others who are profiting, lying twisting his word. All those whom they have mis led, will be delt with as well.
jefferson state
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 4:22pmWait, don’t the Catholics believe in God too? Ohhh, you meant YOUR God.
Report Post »Its Gonna Getcha
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:51pmUncertainty about who’s who overall.
Report Post »SHTFMilitia.com
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:51pmWhy all the pope news ?
If you are prepared You may survive,
Report Post »http://www.shtfmilitia.com
BurntHills
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:49pmway to go, Sr BoomBoom! didn’t we have you in 3rd Grade??
Report Post »AmericanLass
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:49pmCould Rome have saved more lives, yes. That is what the Pope should be saying. But they won’t. Surprised no.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:48pmon the other hand, looking at it realistically, had the Pope spoke up at anytime 1930s-1940s, the Vatican would have been seized, stripped and ALL of it looted. imagine ol’ One-Nut hitler gnoshing with creepy mussolini in St Peter’s.
yeah, sort of like having soros visiting obama in our White House.
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:46pmHog wash to the vatican.
During WW II , most people were making a fortune off the Jews. Paintings were hidden and held at the vatican. And other plaaces. IBM made a fortune on their program to keep track of all Jews, in or out of camps. USA businesses made a fortune selling to Germany.
Pius did nothing.
jblazak
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:50pmJust ask George Soros!
Report Post »ph2691
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 10:10pmPope Pius did plenty to help the Jews, why don’t you look up how many Catholics Hitler killed, or how many Catholics died hiding Jews, the falsified birth certificates to save Jewish children, the Catholic families martyred for hiding Jewish people, or read about the Jewish people hidden in churches, convents and monasteries, and the Vatican, or look up Pope Pius’s public homilies, he was speaking before the Hitler gained power, and read his homilies during Hitlers power. Today the people that are attacking him are either Liberals, Liberal Jews or Atheist, and a few off the hook protestant Christian groups who actually repeat atheist & Liberal media propaganda, but the Jews of the time who lived through it praise the Pope and the Catholic Church. The media, liberals and Atheist hate the Catholic Church and they don’t care how they spin a lie, just as long as it’s out there and it falls on the sheeple to gobble up without sources or research. Their smears on the Catholic Church are the same tactic we see with the media and the tea-party and conservatives. There are good post here that vindicate Pope Pius, the truth isn’t hidden in some secret place, it’s out in the open and he spoke loudly and help the Jewish people. And if you hate media lies, hype and intellectual dishonesty then you would look these things up from reliable sources and people who have no agenda other than truth. And btw, to you and anyone else John Cornwell is a liberal phony in name only catholic, kinda like Pelosi and Biden. Cornwell has profited well off his lies and he is no more a Catholic historian then Ron Howard is. Rabbi Dalin, Ronald J. Rychlak are the best scholars on the topic to date, but there are other good scholars. http://catholicexchange.com/2005/07/29/94098/
Report Post »jblazak
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 11:26pmPH2691
Report Post »Who are u to call Cornwell a liar! Who are you to judge his intent! Before u make those kinds of statements you better have proof not just opinion!
ph2691
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 12:25pm“”Who are u to call Cornwell a liar! Who are you to judge his intent! Before u make those kinds of statements you better have proof not just opinion!”"
jblazak The same question can be re-directed back to you, who are you to claim he is honest just because you strung a series of his quotes on a post? Who are you to judge his intent to be pure and without an agenda. Don’t be like others and pass off his books as truth it only helps perpetuate the progressive lies they want the public to believe. He is intellectually dishonest period. Rabbi Dalin, Ronald J. Rychlak are academics and scholars and refute Cromwell’s false claims, go find their books or interviews online, do your own homework, I did the same years ago.
Here is an article of interest about Cromwell’s faith. The “agnostic Catholic.” As late as 1996, Cornwell called himself a “Catholic agnostic,” who did not believe in the soul as an immaterial substance. http://www.catholicleague.com/rer.php?topic=Book+Reviews&id=15
He also wrote, “human beings are ”morally, psychologically and materially better off without a belief in God.” http://www.catholicleague.org/research/hitlerspope.htm
Btw, there is no such thing as an agnostic Catholic, either one is or isn’t a Catholic, there is no agnostic rite in the Catholic Church, that is Cronwell’s own self describing label. Today he claims to be catholic, but he is a “progressive catholic” and part of those who would like to change the church into their progressive liberal image, aka: in name only catholics. Cronwell is still a liberal who speaks in favor of Progressive Catholics who are against Conservative Popes. What you are seeing is the same progressive movement that has been working against our Constitution is the same progressive movement that has been working to bring down the Catholic Church since the 1960′s, maybe a bit earlier even.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:43pmSunday November 21, 2010
The Truth about Pope Pius XII
By Sr. Margherita Marchione, Ph.D.
Pope Pius XII was not a German collaborator nor was he pro-Nazi. Neither was he inactive nor silent. As a member of the Catholic Church, I resent the blatant accusations against the diplomacy of the Pope and the Church during World War II. This is not only indecent journalism but it also an injustice toward a man who saved more Jews than any other person, including Oscar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg. Unfortunately even in the new Holocaust Museum at Battery Park in New York City the Pope is unjustly criticized. It is historically inaccurate to charge him with “silence.”
Should the media be allowed to perpetuate such falsehoods? Documents prove that these misrepresentations are untrue. Pius XII spoke out as much as he could, and was able to do more with actions than with words. To the very end, he was convinced that, should he denounce Hitler publicly, there would be retaliation. And there was. Whenever protests were made, treatment of prisoners worsened immediately. Robert Kempner, the American who served as deputy chief of the Nuremburg war-crimes tribunal, wrote: “All the arguments and writings eventually used by the Catholic Church against Hitler only provoked suicide; the execution of Jews was followed by that of Catholic priests.”
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Report Post »An interesting document is the testimony of Albert Einstein who, disenchanted by the silence of universities and editors of newspapers, stated in Time magazine (December 23, 1940): “Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. …The Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom.”
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The Jewish Community publicly acknowledged the wisdom of Pope Pius XII’s diplomacy. In September 1945, Dr. Joseph Nathan—who represented the Hebrew Commission—stated “Above all, we acknowledge the Supreme Pontiff and the religious men and women who, executing the directives of the Holy Father, recognized the persecuted as their brothers and, with great abnegation, hastened to help them, disregarding the terrible dangers to which they were exposed.” In 1958, at the death of Pope Pius XII, Golda Meir sent an eloquent message: “We share in the grief of humanity. …When fearful martyrdom came to our people, the voice of the Pope was raised for its victims. The life of our times was enriched by a voice speaking out about great moral truths above the tumult of daily conflict. We mourn a great servant of peace.”
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http://www.catholicleague.org/pius.php?id=19
APatriotFirst
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:50pm@TheGreyPiper
Report Post »You quote a catholic nun as fact?
6 million dead must be turning over in their mass graves at this.
TheGreyPiper
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 2:54pmRead the quotes. Read the quotes. Read the quotes. People like Albert Einstein and Golda Meir. You may need to pull the big white hood off first though.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 3:03pmwhy not he was in my Youth Group.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 3:06pmThought some Blazers may also be interested in this, in which 20000 or so european jews found a form of refuge among the chinese and japanese in the days of WWII. Not for the greatest of reasons mind you, but it is an relatively unknown part of the history.
http://history.emory.edu/home/assets/documents/endeavors/volume1/Ians.pdf
Report Post »M31Sailor
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 3:43pmFunny that the same Jews that deride Catholics are the same ones that continually vote for Anti-Semetic Democrats.. What about the critique Glenn got the other day for speaking the truth about Spooky Dude , from the ADL and other Progressive Jewish Org’s.
Report Post »jblazak
Posted on November 21, 2010 at 8:37pmPius xii, the man at the center of the storm, has been accused of remaining silent and turning his head the other way while millions died. In 1999, John Paul ii made a proposal to canonize the wartime pope. Jewish leaders are bitterly opposed to such a move. Questions concerning the Vatican’s responsibility with regard to the persecution of the Jews came into sharp focus in the 1990s.
Catholic historian John Cornwell’s book Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius xii, published in 1999, shows that prior to his election as pope, Pius xii, as the Vatican representative in pre-war Berlin and then as its secretary of state, helped stamp out opposition to Nazism in the German church. He also abandoned Catholic political parties opposed to Hitler.
Cornwell then charges Pius xii of failing to use his influence in favor of the Jews. The pope did have access to information about Hitler’s extensive killing of Jews. He mildly objected to their persecution rather late in the game, but during his objection didn’t even mention the Jews by name. Pius xii has also been criticized by other historians for failing to warn the Jewish community in Rome before their roundup.
Cornwell (a Catholic himself) wrote in Hitler’s Pope, “Several years ago I was at a dinner with a group of postgraduate students, some of whom were Catholics. The topic of the papacy was broached, and the party got contentious. A young woman asserted that she found it difficult to understand how any right-minded person today could be a Catholic, since the church had sided with the most pernicious right-wing leaders of the century—Franco, Salazar, Mussolini, Hitler. … Then the topic of Eugenio Pacelli—Pius xii, the wartime pope—was raised, and how he had not done enough to save the Jews from the death camps.
“In common with many Catholics of my generation, I was only too familiar with that allegation. … I was convinced that if his full story were told, Pius xii’s pontificate would be vindicated. Hence I decided to write a book that would satisfy a broad spectrum of readers old and young, Catholics and non-Catholics alike who continue to raise questions about the role of the papacy in the history of the 20th century. …
“I applied for access to crucial material in Rome, reassuring those who had charge of the appropriate archives that I was on the side of my subject. Acting in good faith, two key activists gave me generous access to unseen material: depositions under oath gathered 30 years ago for Pacelli’s beatification, and also documents in the office of the Vatican Secretariat of State. At the same time, I started to draw together, critically, the huge circuit of scholarship relating to Pacelli’s activities during the 1920s and 1930s in Germany, works published during the past 20 years but mainly inaccessible to a general readership.
“By the middle of 1997, nearing the end of my research, I found myself in a state I can only describe as moral shock. The material I had gathered, taking the more extensive view of Pacelli’s life, amounted not to an exoneration but to a wider indictment. Spanning Pacelli’s career from the beginning of the century, my research told the story of a bid for unprecedented papal power that by 1933 had drawn the Catholic Church into complicity with the darkest forces of the era. I found evidence, moreover, that from an early stage in his career Pacelli betrayed an undeniable antipathy toward the Jews, and that his diplomacy in Germany in the 1930s had resulted in the betrayal of Catholic political associations that might have challenged Hitler’s regime and thwarted the Final Solution” (emphasis ours).
It is for these reasons, and others, that the proposed beatification of Pius xii has come under close scrutiny and outright resistance from various groups. But still, the Vatican refuses to back down, preferring to leave the general public and the Jews wondering: If Pacelli is the model of Catholic leadership, and with his record meriting a path to Catholic sainthood, has the Vatican learned any lessons from its wartime behavior toward Germany, Hitler and the Holocaust, or should we expect history to repeat itself because lessons have not been learned?
Report Post »gzwrbc
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 3:26amthegraypiper: Thank You!
Report Post »APatriotFirst: I’m sorry, but 3 million dead Catholics would want this said.
southerncross
Posted on November 22, 2010 at 3:27amThe Christian church is sectarian……….. it has two heads……..The Queen of England, and the Pope of Rome.
Both wear a crown of the church, and all sections fall under their rule.
The problem is………….Jesus would be a part of NEITHER! and neither wear HIS crown.
Jesus was a Jew, who walked away from the new jewish traditions. But the pope, and the queen, were both great friends of Hitler,.
How many British friends did Hitler have? A lot…………and what was Hilters motivation? He was an Austrian prince, who was promised his crown back by the the heads of religion……… they threw him under the bus as soon as they could, to gain support for their failing leadership.
The churches resurged after ww2, and the Jews went into hiding. Now, the jews are back, and wouldn’t you know it…….another war of the world has just begun. Looks like someone doesn;’t want to see Jesus return……..I wonder who it might be?
The Papalcy, is littered with corruption, right back to burning women for the art of “alchemy”/witchcraft…… women are the enemy, if they won’t screw you at your beck and call…..and how many popes raped countless women and sired bastard children?
Go do your research, before you decide to kiss the ring of either crown.because Jesus would spit on them both, I am sure of that.
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