Abandoning his people during the greatest danger he had hidden in the Vatican like the coward and traitor that he was.
Now that's just delightful. On one hand you criticize the Catholic Church for being Nazi collaborators, but in cases where Catholics actually did something and offered refuge to Jews, you have the nerve to call those Jews "cowards and traitors." Your bigotry is transparent.
As for Edith Stein, why do you imagine anyone in the Jewish community actually cares? Do you think she was the first Jew to have converted?
The Catholic Church doesn't seek the advice of Jews, Muslims, Hindus, or anyone else, during the canonization process. The fact that Edith Stein was a convert played a prominent role in her canonization -- the fact that she was originally Jewish did not. Her recognition is for her life of dedication and devotion as a Carmelite sister.
You might want to do some research and see what kind of confusion existed even among Jews in the years leading up to the Holocaust. American Jews who petitioned Roosevelt to help the Jews in Germany in the 1930s were chastised by prominent German Jews who could not imagine that the Third Reich was anything more than a short-lived pipe dream.
Nationalists attack NGO activists over Croatian Nazi monument
DATELINE: Zagreb
Around 200 nationalists Monday confronted representatives of non-governmental organisations in the central town of Slunj who wanted to protest against a monument erected to a Croatian World War Two Nazi commander, HINA news agency reported.
Activists of the NGOs tried to protest against the monument to Jure Francetic, commander of the Ustashe, the forces of the Nazi puppet state that ruled Croatia during the war, but the nationalists prevented them from doing so by organising a counter-protest.
The NGO activists, who came from the capital Zagreb, wanted the monument to be removed. President Stipe Mesic last year condemned local authorities for erecting such a monument.
Special police units had to intervene and protect NGO activists, otherwise they would have been beaten by angry nationalists, the report said.
Francetic, killed in 1943, was commander of the so-called "Black Legion" Ustashe battalion, responsible for numerous war crimes against Croatian Jews, Serbs and Roma during the war.