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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As for Jews, Luther's latter-life bitterness recalcitrant Jews could be invoked, as could popes against the Jews
There were certainly those in the Vatican who gave tacit support to the Ustashe in Croatia.
“David Kertzer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning US historian”
Well, that doesn’t help his credibility.
Do Jews murder millions of babies in the womb, like non-Jews?
Then the kettle is calling the pot black.
Get the plank out of your sinful eye, we are genociding people right NOW!
“These are BLOOD LIBELS!!! The Pope SAVED MANY MULTITUDES of JEWS during the Holocaust!! MANY!!!”
Two Words: Rats Line
Regurgitating the Black Legend. No thanks.
What is RATS LINE???
yes, great analogy: “Just like herpes, the Pope Pius/Nazi conspiracy theorists never go away for good.”
Never is it mentioned that Jewish leaders did little to nothing to stop Hitler, nor any protestant leaders-
the truth is none of them had any divisions as Stalin said, “The Pope? How many divisions as he got?” implying that the Vatican’s army of zero could not stop anyone.
alternatively, the Vatican provided Jews with false pass ports and then smuggled them out of harms way. The end point was for many Argentina and Uraguay.
The pope actually played both ends against the middle. The severely biased premise is that the Pope could actually do something to stop the holocaust. He was powerless to be effectual
What did he know and when did he know it? He may have learned of it too late in the war to do anything about it.
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