[The Great Satan]

Time for the pope to STFU. Does he want to go down in history as another Pius XII?

[Aquinasfan]

Time for the pope to STFU. Does he want to go down in history as another Pius XII?

See #97.

You can now no longer plead ignorance.

[eyespysomething]

I have just done a quick Google on this...



http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mischedj/ct_churchandnazis.html

When that pope died in 1939 he was succeeded by Pope Pius XII, who had previously been Vatican Secretary of State. In that role he frequently spoke out against the Nazis, including one notable speech to 250,000 people at Lourdes in 1935 where he said that the Nazis


"are in reality only miserable plagiarists who dress up old errors with new tinsel. It does not make any difference whether they flock to the banners of social revolution, whether they are guided by a false concept of the world and of life, or whether they are possessed by the superstition of a race and blood cult."

As Pope he secretly worked to save as many Jewish lives as possible from the Nazis. Jewish Rabbi Pinchas Lapide wrote that


"The final number of Jewish lives in whose rescue the Catholic Church had been the instrument is thus at least 700,000 souls, but in all probability it is much closer to ... 860,000." (Pinchas E. Lapide, 'Three Popes and the Jews', pp 227-228).
This is more than all other Jewish relief organizations in Europe, combined, were able to save.

[ArrogantBustard]

After you read #97, you might realise that being another Pope Pius XII is a good thing. Somehow, I don't think that's what you intended.

[Romulus]

Does he want to go down in history as another Pius XII?

He could do a lot worse. But since you go in for slandering Pius, does that mean you want to go down in history as another Hitler?

[conservonator]

He who acts as his namesake should take his own advice...