The liberal bestselling attacks on the pope and the Catholic Church are really an intra-Catholic argument about the direction of the Church today. The Holocaust is simply the biggest club available for liberal Catholics to use against traditional Catholics in their attempt to bash the papacy and thereby to smash traditional Catholic teaching — especially on issues relating to sexuality, including abortion, contraception, celibacy, and the role of women in the Church. The anti-papal polemics of ex-seminarians like Garry Wills and John Cornwell (author of Hitler's Pope), of ex-priests like James Carroll, and of other lapsed or angry liberal Catholics exploit the tragedy of the Jewish people during the Holocaust to foster their own political agenda of forcing changes on the Catholic Church today.That at least offers an explanation for why there has been such a sudden focus on this recently.
Very insightful.
The Jewish problem with Pius, IMO, isn’t with his personal actions or the actions of the Church in general at that specific time, it is more generally with the historic Jew-hate and more recent anti-Israel stance taken by the Church. Pius seems caught in the crossfire, so to speak.
No doubt. But there are two other groups jumping in: anti-Catholic protestants and anti-Christian liberals. And, all too often, the three combine - unwittingly.