Ahhhaaaaaaaaaa!! I was right!!!
So who is it and if it's not Pius XII, why is his name plastered across it!!??
Pius XII used many envoys. A source for the quote has been given.
Yeah...........by me!!!................LOL.........thanks for all your help!!
How do you know this is an envoy and how do you know it was taken in Germany?? Hitler got around a bit. This looks like Archbishop Roncalli and if so, the photo was probably taken in Greece, which Hitler visited after its fall in 1941.
In October 1941 Harold Tittman, a U.S. delegate to the Vatican, asked the pope to condemn the atrocities against Jews; Pius replied that the Vatican wished to remain “neutral,” reiterating the neutrality policy which Pius invoked as early as September 1940.
Before the Holocaust began an International Eucharistic Conference took place in Budapest in Hungry during 1938. Cardinal Pacelli addressed the congress and described the Jews as people “whose lips curse [Christ] and whose hearts reject him even today”.
“I’m afraid that history may be obliged in time to come to blame the Holy See for a policy accommodated to its own advantage and little more. And that is extremely sad above all when one has lived under Pius XI.” - Cardinal Tisserant
You don’t capitulate with evil. The excuses given here for the church’s involvement with the Nazi’s are the same soft excuses given for its cover-up of sex abuse.
The primary driver is and has always been the protection of the church above the protection of the innocent.