Another Catholic subject in the news is about Pope Pius XII also known as the WWII Pope and the Hitler Pope. My father who was a soldier fighting at Monte Cassino, Italy during WWII said that he actually carried this Pope on his Papal throne during a victory ceremony in Rome.
Pius XXII has been in the process of being made into a saint. The process takes a long time and after which, the person is deemed a saint and Catholics can then pray to this person with the expectation that this person is closer to god than your usual shmuck and can potentially, be in a better position to ask god to grant you the wishes of your prayer.
Anyway, this particular pope has some people questioning his behavior and actions during WWII that may indicate some collaboration with Hitler and his Nazi regime especially with regard to Jews and their treatment before and during the war.
I know that a number of books both critical and supportive of Pius XII’s actions during WWII have been written. I believe that the charge against the Pope is that he COULD HAVE DONE A LOT MORE TO SAVE THE JEWS FROM EXTERMINATION.
The whole point here is that Pius XII’s wartime archives (16 million documents) have not been cataloged by the Vatican and are not available to the public; the Vatican calls them secret.
Jewish groups are asking Pope Benedict to “freeze” the sainthood proceedings for Pius XII until these archives can be examined by the public to make sure that Pius XII is innocent of all war time charges of not doing enough to protect Jews from being taken to death camps for extermination.
I think that is a very logical request but the Vatican has already responded by saying that cataloging the archives would take up to seven (7) years and I guess they feel that making Pius XII a saint somehow cannot wait that long? That is total baloney and shows how the Vatican manipulates evidence and therefore history itself to place itself in a better light.
This is tantamount to “spinning” history by keeping facts secret, something the Vatican has done for centuries and even tried to do here in the States recently with their pedophilic priests.
I think Catholics should demand that the Vatican come clean!
Pius XXII has been in the process of being made into a saint. The process takes a long time and after which, the person is deemed a saint and Catholics can then pray to this person with the expectation that this person is closer to god than your usual shmuck and can potentially, be in a better position to ask god to grant you the wishes of your prayer.
Anyway, this particular pope has some people questioning his behavior and actions during WWII that may indicate some collaboration with Hitler and his Nazi regime especially with regard to Jews and their treatment before and during the war.
I know that a number of books both critical and supportive of Pius XII’s actions during WWII have been written. I believe that the charge against the Pope is that he COULD HAVE DONE A LOT MORE TO SAVE THE JEWS FROM EXTERMINATION.
The whole point here is that Pius XII’s wartime archives (16 million documents) have not been cataloged by the Vatican and are not available to the public; the Vatican calls them secret.
Jewish groups are asking Pope Benedict to “freeze” the sainthood proceedings for Pius XII until these archives can be examined by the public to make sure that Pius XII is innocent of all war time charges of not doing enough to protect Jews from being taken to death camps for extermination.
I think that is a very logical request but the Vatican has already responded by saying that cataloging the archives would take up to seven (7) years and I guess they feel that making Pius XII a saint somehow cannot wait that long? That is total baloney and shows how the Vatican manipulates evidence and therefore history itself to place itself in a better light.
This is tantamount to “spinning” history by keeping facts secret, something the Vatican has done for centuries and even tried to do here in the States recently with their pedophilic priests.
I think Catholics should demand that the Vatican come clean!
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