you wrote:
“lol. You offered the glowing review of La Popessa; I didn’t. And now you’re asking my opinion of that glowing review?”
No. I did not offer a review. I posted what someone else wrote up as a review. You DISPUTE what that reviewer claims as appears in numerous posts in this thread. Does the book, La Popessa, actually claim that Pius XII saved numerous Jewish lives or not? You say you have the book. Why not answer that simple question? Is that too hard for you?
“Apparently you want us to believe the good reviews, and also to believe the bad reviews. Strange.”
I am asking you to look up something in the book YOU CLAIM TO HAVE. Why is that strange when you were offering to send me a snapshot of yourself with the book? Do you have the book or not? Can you actually open it and read it or not?
“No, I don’t think La Popessa vindicates Pacelli from his sins of omission as well as his sins of commission. Far from it. I think the book stands in testimony to one pretty strange couple who lived together for 50 years.”
What does it say about Pius XII saving numerous lives? That’s what I am asking about.
“Read the book for yourself. As I said, I thought it was fascinating.”
Your fascination is not at question here. Did La Popessa say that Pius XII saved numerous lives?
What is fascinating about the book is not the same old empty chestnuts that Pacelli actually saved Jews by not speaking out and that his hands were tied and that he really really wanted to help. Instead the book is intriguing for the portrait it paints of Pacelli and the German woman who lived with him for 50 years and, if the book is to believed, guided his every footstep, both forward and back.