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To: caww; Alex Murphy
Pope Pius XII, however, said nothing, just as he also said nothing about Auschwitz.

Oh, look, we caught a new one.

caww, this is such a complete lie you really ought to be ashamed to post it. The Israeli Consul to Italy after the war, Rabbi Pinchas Lapide, credited the Holy See with directly saving 860,000 Jewish lives. When he died, Pius XII was eulogized by Golda Meir on the floor of the UN General Assembly. I guess you know more than she did about who did and didn't oppose the Holocaust?

The Good Samaritan: Jewish Praise for Pius XII

Even the Wikipedia article is far more balanced.

It contains the following reaction by leading Nazi Reinhard Heydrich to Pope Pius XII's Christmas address of 1942:

In a manner never known before, the Pope has repudiated the National Socialist New European Order. His radio allocution was a masterpiece of clerical falsification of the National Socialist Weltanschauung...the Pope does not refer to the National Socialists in Germany by name, but his speech is one long attack on everything we stand for...God, he says, regards all peoples and races as worthy of the same consideration. Here he is clearly speaking on behalf of the Jews...That this speech is directed exclusively against the New Order in Europe as seen in National Socialism is clear in the papal statement that mankind owes a debt to 'all who during the war have lost their Fatherland and who, although personally blameless have, simply on account of their nationality and origin, been killed or reduced to utter destitution.' Here he is virtually accusing the German people of injustice towards the Jews, and makes himself the mouthpiece of the Jewish war criminals.
Do you really want to claim that the Nazis didn't know exactly where they stood with Pius XII, and somehow him "speaking out" would have accomplished something worthwhile? Seriously?

Incidentally, the whole "Pius XII acquiesced to the Holocaust" lie was a fabrication by the KGB.

43 posted on 02/03/2015 7:27:50 PM PST by Campion
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To: Campion

Do not accuse another Freeper of telling a lie. It attributes motive, the intent to deceive. Discuss the message not the messenger.


46 posted on 02/03/2015 7:48:09 PM PST by Religion Moderator
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To: Campion
Nuns marching with Croatian Nazi legionaires.

The Franciscan monk, 'Miroslav Filipovic', left, as a 'priest of the Roman Catholic Church' wearing his cassock, ... AND... right, in the Ustashi uniform. ......Filipovic was the Commandant of the Concentration camp at Jasenovac where unspeakable atrocities were committed and where many were starved to death.

Miroslav Filipovic-Majstorovic (center) poses with two Ustasa guards at the Jasenovac concentration camp


49 posted on 02/03/2015 8:13:21 PM PST by caww
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