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To: NYer

With regard to the Jewish Children who, during the German occupation, have been entrusted to Catholic institutions and families and whom Jewish institutions are reclaiming to be entrusted to them, the Holy Congregation of the Holy Office has taken a decision which can be summarized as follows:

1) Avoid, as much as possible, to answer in writing to Jewish authorities, but do it orally.
2) Each time that it will be necessary to respond, it must be said that the Church must make its inquiries to study each case separately;
3) The children who have been baptized could not be entrusted to institutions which would not be in a position to ensure their Christian education;
4) For the children who have lost their relatives, given that the Church looked after them, it would not be appropriate that they would be abandoned by the Church or entrusted to persons who have no rights over them, at least until they are in a position to dispose of themselves. This, obviously, for the children who would not have been baptized.
5) If the children were entrusted by relatives, and if the relatives reclaim them now, inasmuch as the children have not been baptized, they can be returned to them.


19 posted on 07/15/2005 10:37:31 AM PDT by Mylo ("Those without a sword should sell their cloak and buy one" Jesus of Nazareth)
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To: Mylo

Logic impaired, eh?

The baptisms were not "secret," but open, for the purposes of keeping the Nazis from murdering the children as Jews.

And most importantly, what you have posted makes no reference to refusing to return the children to their parents, but only to "institutions" and "persons who have no rights over them."

Paragraph (5) specifically and explicitly contradicts you.


21 posted on 07/15/2005 10:44:51 AM PDT by dsc
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To: Mylo
That sounds pretty prudent to me. In the absence of parents I would far prefer some fairly stringent rules to prevent an organization like Nambla falsely presenting themselves as a Jewish Protective Services agency,spiriting away innocent,defenseless children for nefarious ends.
59 posted on 07/15/2005 12:15:43 PM PDT by saradippity
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