So should Southerners be prevented from holding national public office? After all, we Rebels were, well, Rebels.
Hey, I'm Dutch...
Does that make me a speed skater?
The most insidious example of anti-Pope Benedict XVI material I have seen so far...
Just one example -- Bavaria didn't like the Weimar government because it was too far left for a very conservative state. But they didn't like Hitler either -- the Beer Hall Putsch was crushed by the Bavarian police, Hitler was arrested and did time in Landsberg prison. This is support?
I don't have time to point out all the outright lies in here. They can't be errors, because nobody is that stupid. Just character assassination "by any means necessary."
...and lets not forget that our first pope denied Christ 3 times. The liberals are scared of this one.
This is a mail-in op-ed written by some jaded moron.
Memo to Nelson Maroon from...
Golda Meir, Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs: In 1958, at the death of Pope Pius XII, she delivered a eulogy on behalf of the nation of Israel to the United Nations: “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.”
Pinchas Lapide (Israeli diplomat and scholar) His review of Pius XII's wartime activities: “The Catholic Church, under the pontificate of Pius XII, was instrumental in saving the lives of as many as 860,000 Jews from certain death at Nazi hands.” He went on to add that this “figure far exceeds those saved by all other Churches and rescue organizations combined.” After recounting statements of appreciation from a variety of preeminent Jewish spokespersons, he noted. “No Pope in history has been thanked more heartily by Jews.”
Jeno Levai (Jewish scholar at the Eichmann War Crimes Trial in 1961) "Bishops of the Catholic Church intervened again and again on the instructions of the Pope.” In 1968, he wrote that “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.” In “The Secret War Against the Jews” in 1994, Jewish writers John Loftus and Mark Aarons write that “Pope Pius XII probably rescued more Jews than all the Allies combined.”
O fer cryin' out loud, not this BS again. How desperate ARE these people? And how long will their tantrums last? Sheeeesh
Ignoramus!
I mean Marans, of course. Obviously he knows nothing about the personal history of the pope or of his views.
The DC Examiner is a typical neocon rag. It prints a lot og garbage, including this particularly vile example.