Timid: Pope Pius XII (Photo: Getty Images)
Posted on 07/03/2022 10:58:27 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
A new book sets out damning evidence about the conduct of Pope Pius XII during the Second World War Julie Carbonara
BY Julie Carbonara
June 30, 2022 09:06
Pope Pius XII, who presided over the Catholic Church during the Second World War, has always divided opinion: was he a Nazi sympathiser who did little to save the Jews? Or has he been wrongly vilified? Only the documentation hidden away in the Vatican archives could provide a definite answer.
It looked as if the truth would remain buried forever until the Church decided to open up the archives to scrutiny in 2020 — files that this week have been made available online. David Kertzer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning US historian who specialises in books that explore the fraught relationship between the Vatican and Jews, was there when the doors first opened.
His latest book, the result of two years of intensive work, The Pope at War shows how the Pope did nothing to stop the Holocaust. Instead he pandered to the Nazis and their allies and secretly met Hitler’s emissary, Prince Phillipp von Hessen. The Pope’s sole concern, the archives revealed, was to protect the German Catholic Church, which had been targeted by the Nazis. Another powerful motivator was the direction of the war: in the first few years the Axis powers were storming from victory to victory so the Pope — for the good of the Church, as he saw it — decided to side with the likely winners....
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See post #18.
No kidding ... and on this forum? Exposing leftist lies is supposed to be a big part of this forum’s reason for existence.
On the contrary, many continued to support Stalin. The New York Times even covered up for Stalin when they had evidence of his genocides.
Thank you. The evil was truly immense (and unfortunately it continues)
My understanding is that the US also failed the Jews in the Holocaust.
So why would Kertzer deign to soil his feet on American soil?
His latest book, the result of two years of intensive work, The Pope at War shows how the Pope did nothing to stop the Holocaust.
Needless to say, this is utter libel by Kertzer and the Jewish Chronicle.
Yes, most world governments are corrupt as well, but most governments don’t claim to have been founded by God himself.
The last really good Pope was Pius XI. Ratzinger was a good man, but too much of a theology professor to really have an impact.
I agree!
Did you know that the CHIEF RABBI in ROME CONVERTED TO CATHOLICISM because of this Pope and what he did???? LOOK IT UP!
This is anti-Catholic CRAP!
A Jew being obsessed with a Pope....imagine!
Pius XII was heavily involved in plots to kill Hitler, including the one that almost succeeded in July of 1944. He had already concluded that protesting merely invited reprisals, and that the only sensible course of action was to try to remove Hitler from the scene. Given that, and given that there were tens of thousands of Jews hidden in Catholic establishments just in Rome, calling attention to himself with vocal protests would have been extremely unwise.
JEWS should have done more....they should have FOUGHT the NAZIS....they went like SHEEP because they didn’t like or HAVE any GUNS!
PLEASE REPEAT THAT! I don’t think enough anti-Catholics heard you!!
Send that to the first poster!!
Send this to Paal Culli, the Freeper who posted this libel crap.
YOU need prayers.....badly.
Nah.
The Pope let 'em go because he took a vote and nobody
was much interested in shagging any starving Jewish kids.
You are way off if that post needs prayer badly. If the subject is putting you on the defensive then you need prayers. As a Reformed Christian, the leaders of any church needs prayers for the failings of men. Men of great fall short in the eyes of God. Sorry you don’t see it that way. We all fall short and pointing out where/when we do is not wrong if it’s true. The world falls short today and yesterday. We failed the Jews / Armenians/ Rwandan / Khmer Rouge ….. over and over again. The CHURCH hasn’t been a beacon of truth. Your church my church ot their church. The Bride of Christ is not the generic church but you / me / them who follow Christ.
Now if you just want to have a political argument, then OK we can do that because governments are institutions of men not God.
“the Pope did nothing to stop the Holocaust.” 100% deception. In other news, Pope Pius XII’s heroic works during WWII are respected by many scholars. For starters, I suggest Rychlak’s Hitler (2010). https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B007R61OKU&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_1B0BETKX1BR56GFK1WEA
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