I'm sorry, they weren't martyrs... they were victims.
I wonder if Switzerland and Sweden, also neutrals, refused to sign Secretary of State Hull's condemnation?
No castigation prominently displayed for any other neutrals? Hmmmm.
Did Pius refuse to sign because he could not at the same time condemn the slaughter of religious believers by Stalin, the America's ally?
The voice of Pius XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness enveloping Europe this Christmas....
He is about the only ruler left on the Continent of Europe who dares to raise his voice at all.
- Editorial, The New York Times, Dec. 25, 1941
FYI.
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St Max Kolbe and the other millions of Catholic martyrs of the Nazis - pray for us!
Maybe the museum just hasn’t heard yet about those 860,000 Jews that Pius XII personally saved from the death camps.
This load of horsepucky about Pope Pius and the Jews, which according to recently released documents originated with KGB propagandists at a time when the USSR was worried about the influence of the Papacy on the stability of the Warsaw pact, has been damaging to the reputation of the Church among the ignorant, but it has been far more damaging to the Jews. Most of those who believe this garbage were already Catholic bashers anyway. But it has badly damaged relations between Jews and Catholics.
Israel could use Vatican support, indeed they can use all the moral and political support they can get, but the leftists have continually gone out of their way to offend Christians, spread lies, and insult the Church. In the end, this can only succeed in angering Catholics and making enemies for Israel among people who are trying to be friends. That is NOT a good result. Very self-destructive.