“may have” ???
The phrase “Hitler’s Pope” is an outrage.
Sadly I know Jewish Americans who think the Pope was a Nazi. You can work all kinds of evil with liberal education and news media.
Why should we read anything by an author who repeats lies?
These threads alway bring out some of the most disturbed Freepers that have yet to be banned.
Let me see! 6,000,000 executed, 200,000 may have been saved. that is the kind of exchange any Nazi would like. So the Pope kept his mouth shut for a 30 to 1 kill ratio. sound like a cathlic martyr to me and about ready for sainthood. BTW Were the 200,000 all young boys? just asking
This has been rehashed many times.
The facts are that the Pope acted correctly.
The reluctance to give him credit is not based on the facts at the time, but rather on the Church’s historical role at fostering a climate of anti-Semitism.
I’m not Catholic or Jewish.
But I did find the following book an interesting read about the WWII-era Pope,
seeing how it was written by a rabbi.
The Myth of Hitler’s Pope: Pope Pius XII and His Secret War Against Nazi Germany
by David G. Dalin
All hope and joy should have ended with the holocaust but people are naive and stubborn. “Hitler” will be an insult up to and past the point when leftists decide to repeat the atrocities (and they will!). Life is nothing but an endless and hopeless battle against evil.
The catholic church and Christianity had no more power over the Nazis than they do over the Democrats. Evil simply wins and that’s all there is to it.
Documentary evidence and the testimony of his contemporaries prove that Pius XII was a committed defender and protector of the victims of war and hatred which drenched Europe in blood. Pius XII ordered the Congregation of the Holy Office to issue a formal and explicit condemnation of the mass murder going on in Germany in the name of improving the race. The decree was published on December 6, 1940, in L'Osservatore Romano. At the end of World War II, western nations paid tribute to Pius XII's efforts on behalf of the oppressed. When he died in 1958, the Jewish communities of Europe praised him for his help and expressed sorrow and gratitude for his solicitude during the Holocaust. In the 1960s, there began a campaign of vilification against Pius XII. Today, his detractors continue to claim that he lacked courage, human compassion and a sense of moral rectitude. Hostile attacks by the media replace the historical record that showed him as a great leader.
Immediately after his death, the world at large proclaimed Pope Pius XII worthy of the title, Saint. Referring to Pius XII's sanctity in his letter to Margherita Marchione (February 22, 2001), Bernard Tiffany quoted the following letter from Padre Pio's secretary, Reverend Dominic Meyer, OFM, Cap.: "Padre Pio told me he saw the Pope in Heaven during his Mass. And many miracles have been attributed to His intercession in various parts of the world. Pictures of the Pope have been printed with a prayer for His beatification. But so far I have not seen any with the prayer in English (June 30, 1959)."
In his Diario, one finds a confirmation of the above statement. When Pius XII died on October 9, 1958, Padre Pio was consoled "by a vision of the former pontiff in his heavenly home," according to Padre Agostino. A more recent confirmation of this event comes from Pius XII's niece, Marchesina Elena Rossignani Pacelli, to whom Padre Pio repeated the same words. On May 19, 2002, Elena Pacelli confirmed this statement.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/pius.html
The Pope will be blamed since he didn’t save everyone. How did God get off the hook?