Posted on 08/15/2015 3:01:38 PM PDT by bob_denard
In 2013, Pope Francis publicly stated he'd get to the bottom of several scandals plaguing the Catholic Church.
Despite the pontiff's investigation, one scandal remains shrouded in mystery: that of the Vatican Bank and Nazi gold.
You see, some bits of evidence suggest the Vatican collaborated with Nazi party members responsible for plundering Jewish citizens' gold during World War II. But other evidence casts doubt on the extent of the Catholic Church's direct participation in Nazi activities. The Holy See has long denied any sort of affiliation between the Church and the Third Reich ever existed. Still, limited independent research into a possible connection has been conducted by several agencies, including the U.S. Treasury.
"During and after World War II, was the Vatican bank a witting or unwitting accomplice of Nazi collaborators known as Ustashi who made their way from a seminary in Rome to safe havens in South America?" The National Catholic Review asked July 15. "Did the Vatican bank profit as a result of payments received from these Nazi collaborators who were known as the Ustashi? If we were to follow the Ustashi money, where would the trail lead?"
There's limited evidence with which to answer these questions. We'll let you decide for yourself…
The Vatican and Nazi Gold: Evidence of Church Involved
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After modern Israel was born, it took the Vatican 45 years to “recognize” the Jewish State .
But last month the “Holy See” recognized the Palestinian state even before its creation.
Its harder to get the truth out of the Vatican than it is to get it out of the Clintons.
The Nelson-Atkins museum here in KCMO has stolen Nazi items. After I discovered that I don’t want to go anymore. It was not just the Jews. Churches were stripped of relics and art.
One scandal the Pope has made worse is American bishops who are Democrats first, and Catholics fifth. Another scandal he’s made worse is bishops and Cardinals who are Marxists.
Reminds me of the urban myths of “Confederate Gold” that plagued Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind.
This Pope doesn’t want it solved, he’s part of it...along with a whole bunch of other stuff that hasn’t been told yet...
“After modern Israel was born, it took the Vatican 45 years to “recognize” the Jewish State .”
The Israelis could have made those negotiations go a lot faster.
“This Pope doesn’t want it solved...”
Where’s the evidence that there’s anything to “solve”?
“American Jews evidently trusted the Vatican because they sent money there to help Jews.”
According to Jewish historians the Vatican saved over 800,000 Jews at one time or another in WWII. Apparently that trust was reasonable.
The Vatican has been the source of ultimate truth for 2,015 years.....and there are groups who think that they know better.......they are wrong.
This article is an unlikely source for truth. The second paragraph of the second section has the culprits demanding 1000 kilograms of gold each from 500,000 captives, and then, after the payoff was made, still executing them.
That is a great deal of gold—literally an incredible amount, which makes the whole article rather dubious.
“Both saving Jews while others are helping themselves to Jewish gold while saving Nazis could be true.”
The difference being that there is no actual evidence of this supposed “helping themselves to Jewish gold”. Also, Pope Pius XII, according to eyewitnesses and several Jewish historians gave explicit orders for Jews to be saved. There were no such orders about “Jewish gold” or “saving Nazis.” There’s a big difference between the pope wanting something to be done and someone doing something the pope didn’t want done (which was the case with the “saving Nazis”).
Pope Pius XII actually ransomed Jews from the Nazis with Vatican gold according to Israel Zolli who was the Chief Rabbi of Rome at the time. I bet you haven’t read that book either, right?
o-o-o-o-oo-o-oo-o-o-o-...you seem to have some inside information!!!!pray tell us, what might that stuff be.....I have lived under every Pope from PiusXII through the present and I have never heard that conspiracy......what would be the point???
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Enough with your retarded blog pimping.
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