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A man's motives are easily known from his words and deeds -- and even more easily known from his distortions and lies.

The Concordat of 1933 was essentially a promise: 1) by the Reich to respect the freedom of Catholics in Germany to practice their religion; 2) by the Church to remain out of German politics.

Cardinal Pacelli had no choice but to negotiate the Concordat. He was under instructions from the Pope, as an emissary of the Vatican, to reach an agreement with Hitler that would protect German Catholics, the overwhelming majority of whom opposed Hitler, from Hitler's vengeance. Moreover, the Catholic bishops of Germany pressed Pacelli for a speedy agreement, out of fear for their flocks. Pacelli himself told the British Minister to the Holy See that while he expected Hitler to violate some of the Concordat’s provisions, he probably would not violate all of them at the same time.

You are under no obligation to like, or respect, the Catholic Church or any of its clergy or adherents. But your slanders against a great and gentle man of faith who displayed the utmost courage and compassion, under conditions that would have made you soil yourself, are incomprehensible, unless motivated by pure, venomous hatred. They will be held against you by everyone who remembers them -- in this world and the next.

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Francis W. Porretto
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When Pius inexplicably opposed the creation of the state of Israel, what was behind THAT decision? What business was it of HIS to stick his nose in the affairs of the Jewish people and try to deny them their God-given homeland, whcih they all wanted, and flocked from all over the world to Israel to begin their new lives?

I have heard many catholic spin doctors say: "Pius was trying to protect the Jews from arab persecution". The why does the Vatican today side with Arafat and the palestinians AGAINST Israel? (ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS the vatican is AGAINST the Jews time after time after time, from the Inquisition to todays headlines -- WHY????)

But here is a far more important question for you... before Pius voluntarily CHOSE to write the letter to Roosevelt urging against the creation of Israel, did Pius pray to God for God's Will regarding Israel before composing that letter? Did God ADVISE Pius to oppose Israel? If so, did God then double-cross Pius when Israel was reborn?? Was God wrong? Was God "outsmarted" by mere human Zionists?

If Pius did NOT pray to God for guidance before he opposed the re-creation of the Biblical state of Israel, then by what gargantuan stretch of the imagination do you regard Pius as "a man of God"?????