[Darksheare]

Several Vatican officials denied that the then church helped Vichy France ship Jews off to Nazi concentration camps.
So, one never knows whether any organizational group is telling the truth.
*shrugs*
Isn't for me to say one way or the other.
But they do have manuscripts, and those are of interest to me.

[Askel5]

=== Several Vatican officials denied that the then church helped Vichy France ship Jews off to Nazi concentration camps. So, one never knows whether any organizational group is telling the truth.


As most should know by now, individuals in the Catholic Church do not always remain faithful to the Church.

Because the notion "the then church" somehow rationalized cooperation with the Nazis even as it attacked the Third Reich (well in advance of the war) and countless of its own were imprisoned and slaughtered for their resistance and their aid to Jews, I don't think you are being quite truthful in your characterization of isolated allegations of collaboration as policy of "the then church".

[BlackElk]

The Cardinal-Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Lustiger, was born to a Jewish family and left with the Church for safekeeping when his parents suspected that they woould not be able to avoid the camps. He was raised as a Jew and bar mitzvahed. He later converted to Catholicism. Many Israeli authorities acknowledged that the Roman Catholic Church generally and Pope Pius XII in particular were responsible for saving more than 800,000 Jews from the camps.