[MarkAccord]

The kindest thing that can be said about Pope Pius XII, was that he was a mediocrity. And that is if you are in a generous mood.

[SevenofNine]

I read article on Hareetz wire just now LOL!

[Mrs. Don-o]

A mediocrity?

Yes, opposed by some mediocrities:

"The election of Cardinal Pacelli is not accepted with favor in Germany because he was always opposed to Nazism." The day after Pius XII's election (March 3, 1939) in the Nazi newspaper, Berliner Morganpost

And supported by other mediocrities:

"Above all, we acknowledge the Supreme Pontiff and the religious men and women who, executing the directives of the Holy Father, recognized the persecuted as their brothers and, with great abnegation, hastened to help them, disregarding the terrible dangers to which they were exposed." September 1945, Dr. Joseph Nathan, representing the Italian Hebrew Commission.

"We share in the grief of humanity. …When fearful martyrdom came to our people, the voice of the Pope was raised for its victims. The life of our times was enriched by a voice speaking out about great moral truths above the tumult of daily conflict. We mourn a great servant of peace." Golda Meir, in 1958, at the death of Pope Pius XII

and

"Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. …The Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom." Albert Einstein, in Time magazine (December 23, 1940)

[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“The kindest thing that can be said about Pope Pius XII, was that he was a mediocrity.”

Saving thousands of Jews is not mediocrity. Perhaps your life is mediocrity. Mine most certainly is compared to all the things Pius XII did. No one who knows anything about Pius XII can call him a mediocrity.

Certainly the Jews didn’t think Pius XII was a mediocrity: http://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/PIUS12GS.HTM

[DPMD]

That makes him a Nazi sympathizer?

Are you making a point that addresses the article?

Are you making a point at all?

Are you awake?

[A.A. Cunningham]

The kindest thing that can be said about Pope Pius XII, was that he was a mediocrity. And that is if you are in a generous mood.

860,000

Wonder what, in your generous mood, you'd call Schindler, who only saved 1200 and was hailed by the lefties in Hollywood as a hero.