Much-maligned pontiff (Pope Pius XII defended in a leading Israeli newspaper, HAARETZ)

Haaretz ^ | Sun., January 24, 2010 - Shvat 9, 5770 | Dimitri Cavalli

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thank you --- this is immensely interesting. I have never seen these newspaper clippings before. Clearly, the Nazis had him pegged as an enemy from Day One --- and good Lord, he was carrying out clandestine rescue activities right under their noses!

These were in fact legible, even to my old eyes, but if you get the technical abiility to make them even clearer, please post them again and let me know because I want to use them whenever I can.

[captbarney]

“leftists, secularists”? The term is “COMMUNISTS”.

[Cicero]

Well, to be technical, Communists, fellow travelers, and useful idiots.

[ArrogantBustard]

If he had been jailed I would have been his STRONGEST supporter. He wasn’t and I have no respect for him.

Welcome to FR.

When you get to be responsible for saving 860,000 people from a mass-murdering madman, you might (maybe) have sufficient credibility to criticize Pope Pius XII.

Until then ...

Your opinions are mere flatulence.

[ArrogantBustard]

860,000

KGB stooges have crawled out of the woodwork again.

Kudos to Haaretz for printing this defense of Ven. Pope Pius XII.

[rmlew]

If only there were 7 more such "antisemites", no Jews would have died.

Although I would have wished Pope Pius XII had riegned in the Croatian Church, which did support the Ustashe, the numbers are irrefutable. Pius XII risked his life and the independence of the RCC to protect those the Nazis tried to exterminate.