Ummm i was responding to the posters preposterous notion that what good does a dead pope do...? Shocking and dumbfounding comment.
Good response - totally agree. Thanks for clarifying because I thought the same as Mesta.
What was shocking about it? Jesus had His reason. That was His mission if the NT is to be believed. There is a whole world of difference between that and what Pius did, and what he COULD have done. And there was nothing he COULD have done if he was dead. Apples and oranges. Besides which, all the ways the Church DID help to rescue both Jews and Christians, he WAS laying down his life, and he knew it. Let’s not play semantics or holier than thou here. HE was not Jesus. He was not there to take on the sins of the world.