Hitler’s Pope, Pope Pius XII, before and during the Nazi era, assisted in the legitimization of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime in Germany.
Untrue, slanderous horsehockey disproven and discredited decades ago...
Absolutely right. Geller discredits herself on this and some other issues, which is too bad because she also makes plenty of valid points.
Next you will claim the Vatican knew nothing of the Rat line.
My dad had a newspaper clipping of the pope blessing Hitler. I don’t know when it was taken, though I would suspect before the war.
Yep.
Thank you.
The respect that I had for Pamela Geller is now gone.
You are of course correct. It was always well known to Kremlin-watchers that the out-of-nowhere slander against Pius XII and the Catholic Church as "collaborators" with the Nazis was a postwar propaganda project of the KGB to silence the Church's fight against Russia's takeover and enslavement of Eastern Europe.
Beginning in the 1920s, National Socialism itself was publicly denounced by the Vatican. The Catholic Church also formed the main resistance to Hitler's takeover of Germany, Austria, Holland, etc., and was a serious problem for him when voices in the West--including most in the American Jewish intelligentsia--were silent. This went on while the Catholic Church was hiding hundreds of thousands of European Jews in monasteries and convents and providing them false documents for escape to countries beyond the Nazis' reach.
The thousands of Catholic priests, sisters, and lay activists murdered in Auschwitz and the other camps are a testament to the depth and scale of the obstacle the Church posed for Hitler.
Fr. George Rutler's gripping book on the Church vs. the Nazis, Principalities and Powers, drawn from contemporaneous letters and news stories, is a cleansing, clarifying dose of reality.
Very! Very! Disappointed in Pam Geller. I’ve always liked her but she’s jumped the shark with this calumny.
She should stick to bashing Pope Frankie.