Was the Catholic Church Silent During the Holocaust?
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Posted on 12/29/2004 7:23:24 AM PST by Ginifer
btw, the novel "Michel, Michel", by Robert Lewis, is an excellent portrayal of this situation in post-war France--of a Jewish child entrusted to a (in this case loving) gentile family,
whose distant relatives try to reclaim him after the war.
Seems to be backwards when compared to Christian principles - it makes more sense to send the saved out among the unsaved so they have an opportunity to make a positive impact. Just goes to show the problem with a religion being devised by men, rather than just following the Word of God as laid out in the Bible.
We should wait for concurrence on this story before jumping offside. However, the practice does fit with Pius IX absconding with a Jewish boy and keeping him from his parents after the Pope discovered he had been baptized.
The question would be, did the Church advocate that Gypsies or baptized unbelievers also be kept from their parents after the war, or were Jews specifically targeted?
Was the Catholic Church Silent During the Holocaust?
Catholic Ping - please freepmail me if you want on/off this list
This is silly. The Church should not send children to unknown institutions, who are ethnically Jewish, after being baptized and brought up Christian. Many Jewish children were reclaimed by parents after the war, and those orphaned were brought up by the Church. This letter may or may not say what is reported here.
Italy, thank God, was not France!
They may have "saved" those children, but how would you feel if it was your child and was not returned to you?
The story has been covered by a number of papers and UPI. The letter and diary could still be fakes, not suggesting that either, but the story isn't a function of the source.
That's true, but in most of the western world refusing to return children to their parents, or even to family members, for any reason would be more referred to as kidnapping.
Hatred of Catholics - one of the still acceptable prejudices.
Sure is. We've had these debates on FR before on this topic. It eventually spills out. The Church saved many Jewish and other targeted people from the Nazis. They couldn't save them all. I have to automatically question the article because it contains the word "French". (aka heretical socialists, who embraced the Nazis during WWII)
I suppose the Catholic Church is not being destroyed from the inside by liberals fast enough for their liking.
How is the article, or the story contained therein, expressive of hatred of Catholics?
And if the church, afterwards, did indeed refuse to return children to their parents or next-of-kin, would that be okay with you?
Well, there you go.
It's better to be dead than Catholic. (sarcasm abounds)
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