[presidio9]

Thoughtful and well-meaning opinion piece, but Ruth clearly relys on the liberal media for most of her information on this subject. In fact, Jewish rabbis are just as likely as Catholic priests to engage in pedophila sexual abuse and other perversions, and only the uninformed and conspiracy theorist point any fingers at Pius XII's "role during the Holocaust."

[juliej]

To be fair, when the Jews in the Roman neighborhood near the Vatican were rounded up by the Nazis, the Pope did not speak up - and this happened under his nose.

[Cincinnatus]

With regard to attend the Bar Mitzvahs, no particular offense should be taken as we Catholic kids were not allowed to attend ANY non-Catholic religious service. I once lingered momentarily outside a protestant church when the windows were open and felt a little guilty.

[GOPJ]

Formal dialogue began only in 1965, with the Vatican's Nostra Aetate declaration that repudiated the charge that Jews were collectively responsible for killing Jesus, stressed the religious bond between Jews and Catholics, and called for interfaith contacts.

Two decades later, in 1986, when John Paul became the first pope to visit a synagogue, he embraced Rome's chief rabbi, Elio Toaff, and declared that Jews were Christianity's "dearly beloved" and "elder brothers."

Nice.

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[BlackElk]

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[gogogodzilla]

In fact, Jewish rabbis are just as likely as Catholic priests to engage in pedophila sexual abuse

I call bull. Rabbis are encouraged to marry and have a large family. Celibacy is unnatural, causing natural human desires to be bottled up, which then sometimes spill out in unnatural ways.

[ChicagoHebrew]

But the Polish-born pontiff was the best pope the Jewish world ever had.

What about Alexander VI? Sure he threw orgies in the Vatican. But he also gave expelled Spanish Jews sanctuary in Rome and protected them -- a move that was both right and deeply unpopular.

[mas cerveza por favor]

This is a photo of a plaque displayed at the famous Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Israel. Written on the plaque is a poem evoking religious imagery and casting blame upon the heroic Pope Pius XII for the sacrifice of Jewish children. This outrageous display should be removed and destroyed.