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To: abclily
The Catholic church failed to speak up enough during the persecution of Jews and Catholics by Hitler.

Wrong.

Read: (Jewish) researcher thinks Pius XII went undercover to save Jews

Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust

The accusation that the Church (and the Pope) 'failed to speak up enough' (and what is 'enough'?) originated in a play written and produced in 1968. The author, a Communist agent, was funded by the KGB and STASI, the East German secret police, but this didn't come to light until after the fall of the Eastern Bloc, revealed by an official who participated.

With that said, the problem with the Catholic Church is that there are a lot of "cultural Catholics" who call themselves Catholic (to get votes, or just because Grandpa or Daddy was Catholic). Now that the bishops are awake, they should be taking action. I think many of them were very naive politically and thought that they were dealing with honorable men - seminary doesn't really prepare you for street fighting with Marxist liars. Cardinal-elect Dolan sounded so shocked and surprised that Obama gave him personal assurances and was lying to him all the time . . . . he may be naive but he is not stupid and won't get fooled again.

7 posted on 02/12/2012 5:05:44 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother

I pray you are correct about Cardinal-elect Dolan.


10 posted on 02/12/2012 5:43:21 PM PST by abclily
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To: AnAmericanMother

I pray you are correct about Cardinal-elect Dolan.


11 posted on 02/12/2012 6:00:21 PM PST by abclily
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To: AnAmericanMother

“The charity and work of Pope Pius XII during World War II so impressed the Chief Rabbi of Rome, Israel Zolli, that in 1944 he was open to the grace of God which led him into the Catholic faith. As his baptismal name, he took the same one Pius had, Eugenio, as his own. Later Israel Eugenio Zolli wrote a book entitled, Why I Became a Catholic.”

WIKI - Israel Zolli - “While Christians often mention Zolli as an example of an observant Jew who found Christ, some Jewish scholars contend that Zolli’s conversion was a result of having been ostracized by the Jewish community following the Holocaust, rather than a spiritual awakening.”[2]

ps We know now that Pius himself was directly engaged in ratline activity.


15 posted on 02/13/2012 1:58:09 PM PST by anglian
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