Just like Hagee’s isn’t intended against Catholics.
Learned how this works right here on this thread.
Woods: “You point out that Cornwell has modified his views to some extent since the publication of Hitler’s Pope. How so?”
Dalin: “In his recent book “The Pontiff in Winter”, published in the United States in late 2004, Cornwell acknowledged that he had erred in his book Hitler’s Pope. He was wrong to have ascribed evil motives to Pius and now found it “impossible to judge” the wartime pontiff [Cornwell, The Pontiff in Winter, p. 193]. Cornwell’s about-face, however, received only slight notice in the liberal media, which of course had completely ignored previous scholarly refutations of Hitler’s Pope.
Rabbi David Dalin: “Despite allegations and misrepresentations to the contrary, it can now be documented conclusively that Pope Pius XII was responsible for saving hundreds of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Although the villainous “silence” of the Pope has been repeatedly alleged since the early 1960’s, there is much historical evidence to confirm that he was not silent, that before and after he became Pope he spoke out against Hitler and that he was almost universally recognized, especially by the Nazis themselves, as an unrelenting opponent of the Nazi regime.
Pius XII publicly and privately warned of the dangers of Nazism. Throughout World War II, he spoke out on behalf of Europe’s Jews. When Pius learned of the Nazi atrocities in Poland, he urged the bishops of Europe to do all they could to save the Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution. On January 19, 1940, at the Pope’s instruction, Vatican radio and L’Osservatore Romano revealed to the world “the dreadful cruelties of uncivilized tyranny” that the Nazis were inflicting on Jewish and Catholic Poles. The following week, the Jewish Advocate of Boston reported the Vatican radio broadcast, praising its “outspoken denunciation of German atrocities in Nazi [occupied] Poland, declaring they affronted the moral conscience of mankind.”
In his 1940 Easter homily, Pius XII condemned the Nazi bombardment of defenseless citizens, aged and sick people, and innocent children. On May 11, 1940, he publicly condemned the Nazi invasions of Belgium, Holland, and Luxemburg and lamented “a world poisoned by lies and disloyalty and wounded by excesses of violence.” In June 1942, Pius spoke out against the mass deportation of Jews from Nazi-occupied France, further instructing his Papal Nuncio in Paris to protest to Marshal Henri Petain, Vichy France’s Chief of State, against “the inhuman arrests and deportations of Jews from the French occupied zone to Silesia and parts of Russia.”
The London Times of October 1, 1942, explicitly praises him for his condemnation of Nazism and his public support for the Jewish victims of Nazi terror. “A study of the words which Pope Pius XII has addressed since his accession,” noted the Times, “leaves no room for doubt. He condemns the worship of force and its concrete manifestations in the suppression of national liberties and in the persecution of the Jewish race.”...
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But you aren’t Hagee, D-fendr. tit for tat?
To set the language parameters straight, the Catholic church has a hierarchy composed of priests. The broad masses are called laymen. Although any Catholic can perform certain otherwise "priestly" duties, it's left to the hierarchy (who deal with all the ecclesiastical matters of the church as well) to represent the church.
With Protestants, e.g. Baptists (who are pretty typical of the lot), the church is composed of the members. The standard is "the priesthood of all believers". Every member may perform every priestly duty. Church management (the ecclesiastical part) is also a function performed by the members as a whole.
When you hear a Protestant criticizing "the Catholic church" he or she is always differentiating between the laity and the hierarchy because we know they are not the same even if you feel a "one-ness" with the hierarchy.
I'm sure that many of you suffered tremendously when the Catholic parochial school system was shut down and you ended up in predominantly Protestant public schools where you were harassed for your religious beliefs. But if you think that was suffering, imagine the plight of the snake handlers ~ talk about being gossiped about and literally shunned ~ those poor kids really had it tough ~ and from everybody.
But that was school and those were children, none of whom were all that profound when it came to talking about religion, particularly somebody else's religion.
So, maybe we should lighten up. Don't ask McCain to go around repudiating support ~ he needs all he can get! Else, the Devil himself is going to be sitting there in the White House sending us all to the gas chambers and the ovens.