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One thing I have learned since having been confirmed a Catholic and after
having studied my faith more fully is this: where there are unreasonable
attacks against the Church, there is either ignorance or a malignant heart.
Scratch the surface of someone who gets their kicks (or paychecks) slandering
the Church or presenting it as some sort of ossified dinosaur that's too
stupid and reactionary to figure out that Truth changes, and you'll find
one of a few things:
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a hellfire and
brimstone Protestant raised on English myths rooted in anti-Spain and
anti-Catholic sentiments;
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a Marxist, Socialist,
or other breed of leftist;
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a radical feminist;
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someone who wants
to normalize homosexuality;
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someone who promotes
abortion and/or the use of contraception;
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the kind of person
who worships "godesses" and "forces" or otherwise engages in New Age silliness;
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a cynical kid raised
in our secular materialist world who's read his socialist-penned schoolbooks
and believes that "religion" is the cause of all evil and that assertions
of Truth violate the principles of "cultural diversity" and lead one to be
a "hater" (or one of those kids all grown up but who's never opened a book
since having left high school or hasn't read anything that wasn't assigned
to him by his university's Women's Studies Department).
The reasons all
boil down to ignorance, radical politics, New Age-ism; gender confusion,
or the desire for "easy" sex, this last being the first among the usual suspects.
John Cornwell, the self-described "Catholic" author of Hitler's Pope
is no different. His book, Breaking the Faith, has been summarized
thus: "A former seminarian decries the conservative trend in the modern Catholic
church, and offers suggestions for its liberalization." In his own words
from the book relevant to this essay, Hitler's Pope:
The beatification
of Pius XII would be a major victory for the traditionalists over the
progressives with regard to the interpretation of Vatican II. If the Papacy
becomes too strong to the detriment of the people of God, the Catholic Church
will suffer a loss of moral and spiritual influence to the detriment of us
all.
In other words,
this well-known leftist wants to interpret the sixteen documents of Vatican
II in "revolutionary" terms, calling upon their "spirit," as leftists are
wont to do, in order to justify his political or sexual agenda -- an agenda
that's so powerfully motivating to him that engaging in calumny against a
good and holy man and creating undeserved scandal are acceptable means in
bringing it about.
"It's a dirty, low thing to do for the Catholic Church to continue its subversive
activity in every way possible and now even to extend its propaganda to
Protestant children evacuated from the regions threatened by air raids. Next
to the Jews these politico-divines are about the most loathsome riffraff
that we are still sheltering in the Reich. The time will come after the war
for an over-all solution of this problem." Joseph Goebbels's diary, 26 March
1942 (Lochner, The Goebbels Diaries, 1948, p. 146)
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That Pope Pius
XII saved 800,000 Jewish lives, hiding Jews in monasteries, convents, and
inside the Vatican itself; that he got to the Jews money for travel; that
he issued fake baptismal certificates so they could pass as Christian; that
he was praised by Jews at the end of the war (by everyone from Golda Meir
to the Communist Albert Einstein) as a "righteous gentile"; that his was
called by the New York Times the only voice among the silence on the
topic of the Jewish persecutions; that the Chief Rabbi of Rome was so impressed
by this Pope's holiness and heroism toward his fellow Hebrews that he took
his name when he converted to Catholicism -- these things have been written
about by people much more talented than I. Links to what they have to say
appear below. Please read them -- and as you do, remember that ignored in
the singular focus on the tragedy of the Jewish "holocaust" is the destruction
of Christians that took place simultaneously: not only were Catholics also
murdered by Nazis (3,000,000 in Poland alone!), but, at the same time, 15
million Christians were being murdered by our ally, "Uncle Joe" Stalin,
much-beloved by FDR, American liberals, and American media. Where are the
outrage, the memorials in every major American city, the Hollywood movies,
the PBS specials, the "Christian 'holocaust' education programs" in public
schools, the slogans, the defense leagues, the apologies for them? Where's
even a mention of it in the typical American High School textbook?
Why "the silence"? And why the double standard?
And as you read all this, for the love of all that is Holy, realize that
Pope Pius XII was in between a rock and a hard place. He was in Vatican City,
surrounded by Rome, in the middle of Mussolini's fascist Italy. On one side
of him he had Communism, which was slaughtering Christians in astronomical
numbers, a movement led predominantly by Jews, and on whose side the Allies
entered the war. On the other side of him, he had pagan racist Nazism that
was, in part, a reaction against Communism, but which was just as anti-Christian.
He was against both of these evil idealogies (see his Encyclical Summa
Pontificatus below) but was hardly in a position to do much about either
in a hugely public way without increasing the slaughter of both Jews and
Christians. The great and holy Pius XII did what he humanly could, as publicly
as possible, and most powerfully and effectively behind the scenes. The world
knew this during and after the war; it has forgotten since the ascendancy
of cultural Marxism that has changed our culture to one that is thoroughly
anti-Christian -- most especially anti-Catholic.
Further Reading
 The Myth of
Hitler's Pope by Dr. Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
A
Question of Judgment: Pius XII & the Jews US-Israel.org
A Righteous
Gentile by Rabbi David G. Dalin, Ph.D.
Pius
XII and the Jews: The War Years, as reported by the New York Times by
Rev. Msgr. Stephen M. DiGiovanni, H.E.D. .
Jewish
Historian Praises Pius XII
The Real Story of Pius
XII and the
Jews
By James Bogle {Jewish)
Dauchau's
Priests
The
Weekly Standard: "The Usefulness of Daniel Goldhagen" His new book attacking
Pope Pius XII is filled with factual errors, providing an opportunity for
other anti-Catholic writers to claim the middle ground
The Good
Samaritan: Jewish Praise for Pope Pius XII
The Church and Jewish
Idealogy
Catholic
Heroes of the Holocaust
Blaming
the Wartime Pope
800,000
Saved by Pius XII’s ‘Silence’
Mit
Brennender Sorge encyclical of Pope Pius XI, written with future
Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli), 14 March 1937. This is the only encyclical
to have been originally published in German -- or any language other than
Latin
Summi
Pontificatus Pope Pius XII's wartime Encyclical condemning Nazism's
racism and Communism's atheism
Jews
Against Zionism Please, at least skim the links above, and then ask yourself
why this double standard exists: why are so many people wrongfully slamming
Pope Pius XII, who did everything he could possibly do as a veritable prisoner
in the Vatican surrounded by Fascist Italy, while saying nothing about the
Zionists who were not only passively silent, as they accuse Pope Pius XII
of being, but actively betraying innocent Jews?
Book
Link: Hitler, the War and the Pope, by Ronald J. Rychlak
Book
Link: Before the Dawn, by Eugenio Zolli, former Chief Rabbi of
Rome during the Nazi persecutions. He converted to Catholicism, taking Pope
Pius XII's Christian name, Eugenio, as his own because of what the Pope did
for the Jews during the War
Book Link: Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century:
A Comprehensive World History Let's set the record straight:
the incessant focus on only the Jewish Holocaust pushes the much worse, more
vast, and still on-going Christian Holocausts to the back burner. Ask yourself
why. From the Marxists, to the Nazis, to the Protestants in the time of the
"Reformation," to Muslims of the past, and to Muslims and cultural
Marxists/seculars today, the Church is enemy. Read about it.
Book Link: Perfidy how Zionists betrayed Jews
during World War II
Book Link: Postville the true causes of "antisemitism"
are explained (not by design) in this absolutely fascinating, true story
of what happens when Lubavitcher Jews swarm into the small Protestant town
of Postville in Iowa. A true eye-opener (and written by a secular Jew, Stephen
G.
Bloom)
Book resource: "The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the Third
Reich: Facts and Documents Translated from the German," published in
1941, this book is filled with evidence the cultural Marxists, the "Hitler's
Pope" lovers, don't want you to see
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