[Petrosius]

Perhaps we should condemn the United States for supporting Hitler too because I can produce a picture of William Dodd (second person to the right of Hitler), the United States' ambassador to Germany standing with Hitler.

Cardinal Pacelli was the Vatican nuncio (ambassador) to Germany. Of course he meet with the Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler, as did the ambassador of every country that had relations with Germany, including the United States. The use of these pictures to try to imply anything else is dishonest. The last I looked, all Christian denominations include "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor" as one of the Ten Commandments.

Also, please give the citation for your quote.

[Tax-chick]

Sir Martin Gilbert, a British historian and the world’s leading expert on the Holocaust, has said that Pope Pius XII should be considered as a “Righteous Gentile” by Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust remembrance authority.

Thank for for (as it were) telling me not to be so hasty! This reminds me that I need to put more of Martin Gilbert's books on my library reserve list.

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Perhaps we should condemn the United States for supporting Hitler too because I can produce a picture of William Dodd (second person to the right of Hitler), the United States' ambassador to Germany standing with Hitler.

The US never signed a Reichskonkordat with Hitler. The Roman Catholic church did...

The signing of the Reichskonkordat on July 20, 1933 in Rome. (From left to right: German prelate Ludwig Kaas, German Vice-Chancellor Franz von Papen, Secretary of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs Giuseppe Pizzardo, Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, Alfredo Ottaviani, and member of Reichsministerium des Inneren (Home Office) Rudolf Buttmann)