[Alex Murphy]

Pius XII was pope during the Nazi period, and has been condemned for not using his office more vocally to denounce the persecution of Jews. Ironically, it was Pope Benedict who stoked the debate about Pius in 2009 after calling for him to be granted venerable status, first stage on the road to sainthood....

....Relying on previously unused Vatican archive material, as well as eye-witness testimony, British author Gordon Thomas contends that Pius went out of his way at great personal risk to use the Church’s resources to protect Jews. Had Pius denounced the Nazis any more vociferously, that covert rescue operation would have been jeopardised, which, argues Thomas, was why he remained as silent as he did.

[massgopguy]

It’s called “Facia Contente”, literally Happy Face. What it means is we smile at you while behind your back you don’t know what’s really going on. Then you walk away thinking these Italians are such clowns.

[wolfman23601]

The media will make no bones about their hatred of Catholicism, including libeling the pope and tying him to the priest abuse scandal, which actually occured inder John Paul II’s administration.

[fidelis]

"Pope Benedict’s decision to resign has re-ignited media debate about his degree of complicity in the cover-up of child abuse by Catholic priests." The rest of the article, I suspect, was simply an excuse to put into print this one line.

[fidelis]

"Pope Benedict’s decision to resign has re-ignited media debate about his degree of complicity in the cover-up of child abuse by Catholic priests."

The rest of the article, I suspect, was simply an excuse to put into print this one line.

[massmike]

HITLER DIDN’T HAVE A POPE – BUT HE DID
HAVE A MUFTI

A Review of Rabbi David G. Dalin’s “The Myth of
Hitler’s Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews From
The Nazis” by Don Feder
http://www.donfeder.com/articles/0509DalinBook.pdf

[babble-on]

So, a raging anti-Semite obsessed with International Jewry says the Church behaved responsibly in the Nazi period.

Well, I’m sure that will end the controversy over this once and for all....

[surroundedbyblue]

Hit piece

[Romulus]

Another cheap shot. Clearly it was too much to expect that the editors of the Jewish Chronicle would resist the “Hitler’s Pope” headline.

[DBeers]

Nothing better than “renewed media debate” AKA renewed leftist attacks on the Church and the useful idiots propagating the same leftist opinionated garbage as Religion, News, & History on FR.

[MeOnTheBeach]

I don't know what people expected the Pope to do against Hitler. They were in his back yard and he had all the Catholics of Europe to think about. Say the wrong thing and it could have gotten millions of Catholics sent to the camps.

I think the Catholic church handled that situation the best they could.

Like the Christians in the middle eastern countries today. You keep your head down and hope the genocidal gremlins running your country don't notice you. They have more guts then I'll ever have.

I give Pope Pius XII credit where credit's due. And he deserves credit for holding it together during those years.