This another libelous anti-Catholic attack ... Thanks to the Catholic Church and the “silent” Pope, Pius XII, more than 800,000 Jews were saved from the Nazi extermination camps.
While the American Jews were not able to get FDR to open the doors of U.S. to the fleeing Jews and when the British closed the doors of Palestine to the Jews escaping Nazi occupied Europe, Pius XII ordered the churches, convents, seminaries and even the Vatican to hide the Jews. Tens of thousands of Jews were provided false baptism certificates to emigrate to South American where several countries were in a joint effort with the Vatican to save the Jews.
Even the Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco recognized as Spanish citizens the descendants of the Sephardic Jews that were expelled from Spain in 1492 by order of the Catholic Kings, Fernando and Isabella. Thanks to Franco more than 60,000 Jews saved their lives, this is quite a contrast with the less than 10,000 received by FDR
Christians would stand by railway tracks taking their index finger as like a knife to their throats to tell the Jews where they were going. My grandparents were murdered by the Nazis. When going to their local church they were told that there was nothing they could do.
There were some righteous gentiles who hid Jews risking their own lives. The Anne Frank story and Schindler's List illustrates this. So does the family in Poland that took in my step-mother and gave her a cross to wear. That cross saved her life. But the majority were silent. They smelled human flesh burning from the ovens of dozens of death camps and did nothing. Don't take my word for this - go here: German, Polish civilians forced by US Army to witness Holocaust victims
This is just one photo from hundreds.
Pope Francis is a good man. Israel warmly welcomes him with open arms. Catholics, Jews and Christians face a common enemy today - Islamic Jihad.
Let us not allow our enemies to play divide and conquer among us. ;>
