[Ann Archy]

You said.......
In response to the nonsense about the Church "not doing enough" I would like to know what Jewish leaders did to oppose Hitler in Germany. I have never heard any discussion of very active Jewish opposition to Hitler until the Warsaw Ghetto uprising very late in the game. It is my understanding that Jews attempted to ride Hitler out and thought it would be futile to openly oppose the Nazis. No criticism there, Hitler was a maniacal mass murderer.

I totally agree with everything you said. Why do the Jewish people blame the Pope fr not doing enough when I never hear what the Jewish Head Rabbi of ROME did???

[AnAmericanMother]

Actually, the Chief Rabbi of Rome worked closely with the then Pope, Pius XII, to shield and hide thousands of Jews in the Vatican, outlying monasteries and convents, and in the Pope's summer residence.

He praised Pius XII to the skies, as did other Jews - Albert Einstein among them. Pius XII was lauded by Israel as a "righteous Gentile", and thousands of trees were planted in Israel in his honor.

It wasn't until the son of an SS officer named Hochhuth wrote a play "Der Stellvertreter" - "The Deputy" - in the 1960s, blaming Pius XII for "not doing enough" to stop the Nazis, that this even became an issue. The slander has been revived recently by Hitler's Pope - a shoddily researched sensationalist book written by a failed seminarian with his knife out for Catholics in general.

Don't be misled by what appears to be a concerted effort to slander the Church.

[maryz]

Why do the Jewish people blame the Pope fr not doing enough when I never hear what the Jewish Head Rabbi of ROME did???

Was that the one who, with his wife, converted to Catholicism after the War, drawn in some part at least by how impressed he was with how much Pius XII had done to help the Jews?