I didn't know that. Who is he then?
(NB: Ion Pacepa, who was in the Romanian secret police during the cold war, says it's a KGB disinformation campaign. That's not my opinion; it's a fact.)
Your picture isn't one of the Pope. Why do you post it without a caption, implying that it is? I believe it's the Vatican nuncio in Berlin, who was required to greet Hitler at official functions. It was his job.
Pinchas Lapide, a rabbi who was also an Israeli consul in Italy at one point, credits the Pope with saving 860,000 Jewish lives during the war. Was he a liar?
Golda Meir eulogized Pius XII in the UN General Assembly, saying:
We share the grief of the world over the death of His Holiness Pius XII. During a generation of wars and dissensions, he affirmed the high ideals of peace and compassion. During the 10 years of Nazi terror, when our people went through the horrors of martyrdom, the Pope raised his voice to condemn the persecutors and to commiserate with their victims. The life of our time has been enriched by a voice which expressed the great moral truths above the tumults of daily conflicts. We grieve over the loss of a great defender of peace.Was she a liar?
Jeno Levai, an eminent Jewish historian, wrote in 1968:
the one person (Pius XII) who did more than anyone else to halt the dreadful crime and alleviate its consequences, is today made the scapegoat for the failures of others.Was he a liar?
The New York Times wrote of the Pope's Christmas message in 1942:
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.
A Gestapo report on the same speech:
In a manner never known before... the Pope has repudiated the National Socialist New European Order [Nazism]. It is true, the Pope does not refer to the National Socialists in Germany by name, but his speech is one long attack on everything we stand for. Here he is clearly speaking on behalf of the Jews.Everyone, including the Nazis, knew whose side Pius XII was on. The 860,000 Jews whose lives he saved knew whose side he was on, as well.
Why do you post recycled communist propaganda defaming a man who should rightly be considered a hero?
bogus attempt to rewrite history, its hasn’t worked all this time and it won’t succeed now. the truth is otherwise.
Also, let's not forget the communist/socialist war against the Catholic Church in Spain in 1936 (just three years before the start of World War II) in which thirteen of sixteen Bishops and nearly 7000 priests, seminarians, monks and nuns were murdered. This was very much on the mind of the Pope as he chose his courses of action in resisting the equivalent evils of Communism (Proletarian Socialism) and Nazism (Nationalist Socialism). —The other popular Communist message on the Spanish Civil War which persist to today was that Franco was a Fascist.— It was not the role of the unarmed Church to openly declare war against Socialism of both Proletarian and Nationalist varieties, but to resist their evils prayerfully and passively while continuing to spread it's message of saying “No!” in the face of evil. The Pope hid 5000 Jews in his summer residence (where Benedict now lives) and the Church undercut the hatred inspired by Communism and Fascism throughout Europe.
Thank you, Campion, for your timely and well-stated rebuttal. Satan hates the cross!
Do we really need to refute this tired communist-inspired lie again? Here, on FR, supposedly an anti-communist site?
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The hatred of the Catholic Church is much stronger in some FReepers than any hatred of totalitarian regimes or ideologies.
I didn't know that. Who is he then?