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"Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany,
I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they
had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth;
but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I
looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming
editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of
freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a
few short weeks...

Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's
campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special
interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great
affection and admiration because the Church alone has had
the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth
and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I
once despised I now praise unreservedly."

Albert Einstein
Time Magazine, 12/23/40

The charity and work of Pope Pius XII during World War II
so impressed the Chief Rabbi of Rome, Israel Zolli, that
in 1944 he was open to the grace of God which led him into
the Catholic faith. As his baptismal name, he took the same
one Pius had, Eugenio, as his own. Later Israel Eugenio Zolli
wrote a book entitled, Why I Became a Catholic.

"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... the Pope put himself squarely
against Hitlerism... he left no doubt that the Nazi aims
are also irreconcilable with his own conception of a
Christian peace."

The New York Times editorial
12/25/41 (Late Day edition, p. 24)

"This Christmas more than ever he is a lonely voice crying
out of the silence of a continent... Pope Pius expresses
as passionately as any leader on our side the war aims of
the struggle for freedom when he says that those who aim at
building a new world must fight for free choice of
government and religious order. They must refuse that the
state should make of individuals a herd of whom the state
disposes as if they were lifeless things."

The New York Times editorial
12/25/42 (Late Day edition, p. 16)

"[Pope Pius XII] took an unequivocal stand against the
oppression of Jews throughout Europe."

-- American Jewish Yearbook, 1943-44

"The Church and papacy have saved Jews as much and in as far
as they could save Christians…Six million of my co-religionists
have been murdered by the Nazis, but there could have been many
more victims, had it not been for the efficacious intervention
of Pius XII."

-- Dr. Rafael Cantoni,
head of the Italian Jewish Assistance Committee

"I express my thanks as well as deep appreciation…of the
invaluable help given by the Catholic Church to the Jewish
people in its affliction."

-- Grand Rabbi Isaac Herzog of Jerusalem

"[I praise the pope and Catholics] who recognized the
persecuted as their brothers."

-- Dr. Joseph Nathan,
head of the wartime Italian Hebrew Commission

"[To Pius XII]...the warmest thanks for the efforts of the
Catholic Church on behalf of Jews throughout Europe during the war."

-- Dr. A. Leo Kubowitzler,
Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress

This is about the forth time, I think that this series of quotes has been dragged out. And, to repeat myself, after-dinner testimonials that don't address the point are not a meaningful response to the problems I have just now adumbrated for about the forth time, without anyone attempting to answer it, or come to grips with it, or for that matter, meaningfully acknowledged the existence thereof.

Of course PIUS helped the jews--that does not mean he and his church aren't guilty of contributed mightily to getting them in the nazi gunsites in the first place. Just as the church owns up to in the "We Remember" document.