A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII (Vanity)

Powell's Books ^ | May 2007 | Dan Kurzman (Vanity, Frank Sheed)

[Frank Sheed]

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[Frank Sheed]

This book was announced today on the Catholic World News website.

[Frank Sheed]

Pius XII PING!

[Frank Sheed]

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[AlguyA]

I've wondered how long it was going to take some author to reveal the truth about Hitler's hatred of Pius XII. Albert Speer, Hitler's Minister of War Production and chief architect, survived the war and Nuremberg and wrote a memoir, Inside the Third Reich, in which he details how Hitler in dinner time conversation would often rail against the Pope, threaten to invade the Vatican, kill all the priests, and then say it was a mistake of war.

Frankly, I've never understood how anyone with even a cursory knowledge of World War II and the Third Reich could ever buy the "Hitler's Pope" garbage.

[tiki]

This sounds like it could certainly be interesting. It sounds like it gives a positive portrayal of Pope Pius XII.

[Pyro7480]

Frankly, I've never understood how anyone with even a cursory knowledge of World War II and the Third Reich could ever buy the "Hitler's Pope" garbage.

Because they have an agenda. It most cases it's the secular "I hate the Church out of general principal" folk.

[tiki]

I was actually going to say that for those who believe the lies about him it won’t make any difference and for those who don’t no book is needed. I really do think it will be a good book though.

[Pyro7480]

From a post on blog from earlier this evening:

Seen in Washington, DC

The "new" pastor at Old St. Mary's in Washington, DC (he has been there for almost a year) has been doing some repairs around the parish. In preparation for repainting the walls of the sacristy, he removed some framed pictures on the wall. One was a painting of Pope John Paul II. The frame was in need of some work as well, so he took the painting out of the frame. Behind the painting, he found another painting of an earlier pope. This is what he found.

Pope Pius XII (The pictures are sort of grainy because it was taken in hallway with limited light.)

[Pyro7480]

That should be "From a post on my blog from earlier this evening:

[Rodney King]

Because they have an agenda. It most cases it's the secular "I hate the Church out of general principal" folk.

I disagree. It is just about setting up the Church for lawsuits.

[Alex Murphy]

Ping to read later

[Jaded]

Agenda. Yad Vashem had demanded the Vatican release documents relating to WWII and that the Vatican stop the plan to Cannonize Pius XII. What’s amazing about that is Yad Vashem has honored many priests, bishops and clergy that testified that they were acting on specific orders from Pius XII. Their proof that he was Hitler’s pope came from a forged letter that no one including the NYTimes has bothered to verify. Oh, and the NYTimes in the early 40’s published articles about Pius being the lone voice in Europe to speak out for the Jews.

[Convert from ECUSA]

Thanks for posting this. I recently saw the book at a local Barnes & Noble here in Northern VA and I grabbed it fast! I haven’t read it yet, but it looks very interesting.

[siunevada]

Related CNS article

[Aquinasfan]

Frankly, I've never understood how anyone with even a cursory knowledge of World War II and the Third Reich could ever buy the "Hitler's Pope" garbage.

People often believe what they want to believe.

I used to do that, to some extent. But once you fully realize that God is Truth itself, you realize that there is no reason to fear the any truth.

The only caveat is that truth can be distorted by selective truth telling, which is a variant of lying.

[Frank Sheed]

I’ll have to put Speer’s book on my reading list.

Another one I’ve neglected to read is the classic, “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by William Shirer.

[Frank Sheed]

Thanks! This is excellent. Two paragraphs are shown below:

Kurzman, who has written 16 other books, said he had no opinion on whether Pope Pius XII should be beatified or canonized, but wanted to clear up certain untruths contained in "Hitler's Pope," a 1999 book by English author John Cornwell.

"He was a human being and he made mistakes, but I found no evidence that he was anti-Semitic," Kurzman said of Pope Pius. He said a letter cited by Cornwell containing an anti-Semitic remark was not written by the pope but by an aide and did not reflect the pope's views.

[Frank Sheed]

We always had a portrait of His Holiness on the wall in my home as I grew up. I remember that vividly.

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[Bigg Red]

What a cool find!

The book sounds great.