[presently no screen name]

I don't think the Catholic hierarchy spoke out against slavery

And we can add the Holocaust to their 'do nothing' list.

[frogjerk]

And we can add the Holocaust to their 'do nothing' list.

I see the Communist propaganda is alive and well.

[marbren]

If there is one Christian denomination that is most well known and vocal about their opposition to abortion it is the Roman Catholic Church.

[Campion]

And we can add the Holocaust to their 'do nothing' list.

That's absolutely untrue, and is a lie invented by the East German secret police and the KGB.

[jjm2111]

And we can add the Holocaust to their ‘do nothing’ list.

Absolutely not effing true.

[dangus]

>>>> I don’t think the Catholic hierarchy spoke out against slavery. <<<<

>>And we can add the Holocaust to their ‘do nothing’ list. <<

When I was in Boston in the lat 90s, the Globe ran a front-page article about how the Catholic Church had never denounced Nazism. On the back page was a picture of the Boston Globe “sixty years ago, today.” The headline screaming across the entire broadsheet was that the “Pope Condemns Twin Terrors of Totalitarianism,” that is, Stalinism and Fascism.

The fact is that while the U.S. was still turning a blind eye towards the Nazi regime, the Catholic Church was boldly insisting that men of good will must do all they could to counter the Nazis. For this stance, tens of thousands of Catholic priests and nuns were slaughtered in Central Europe.

Likewise, Catholic popes have issued several bulls and epistles regarding the inherent evil of the slavery of blacks and Amerindians. At the time, however, most Catholics in America were Northerners, who had little say in such goings on. The indentured servitude of Northern laborers often rivaled plantation slavery in cruelty; young children locked in factories for sixteen hours a day, using dangerous equipment. On many occasions, hundreds would die in fires, since they were locked in. As my uncle (who worked as a child laborer in the 1920s, losing fingers in the mill) put it, “the difference between the Northern slaves and Southern slaves was that the Southern slaves had a positive economic value; their masters used brutality to keep them in line, but at the end of the day, a dead slave was a lost investment. A dead Catholic meant nothing.”

[A.A. Cunningham]

You are an idiot.

[saradippity]

You are wrong on both counts.

And as an aside,Catholics and nonCatholics of any or no religion are doing a disservice to Jewish people by constantly bringing the "holocaust" into every conversation or discussion of anything related or unrelated to other peoples' sufferings and sadness.