Pope's High Praise of Holocaust-Era Predecessor Sparks Jewish Ire

[marmar]

from Politics Daily:



Coverage of Pope Benedict XVI's new book-length interview has focused almost exclusively on his remarks about using condoms to prevents AIDS, but Jewish leaders are voicing objections to his unqualified praised for his war-time predecessor, Pius XII, whose record during the Holocaust is a perennial source of frictions between the Vatican and the Jewish community.

"For his part, (Pius XII) did all that he could to save people," Benedict tells German journalist Peter Seewald in the book, titled "Light of the World: The Pope, the Church and the Signs of the Times," which is to be formally released at the Vatican on Tuesday. The pontiff, who was raised in Nazi Germany, adds that Pius "was one of the great righteous men and that he saved more Jews than anyone else."

Jewish leaders and some historians have long argued that Pius, a career church diplomat who became pope in 1939 and died in 1958, did not speak out as strongly as he could when he realized that Adolph Hitler was systematically exterminating Jews and that he did not do as much as he could to save Jews in Italy. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/11/22/popes-high-praise-of-holocaust-era-predecessor/

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

1. Did not speak out as strongly as he could ? Did not do as much

as he could? And what would that be? What would it lead to?

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Pius XII was Hitler 's Pope..

[madmax]

3. Oy! Does this new Pope have

a problem similar to w bush and sarah? Keeps sticking his foot in his mouth? If irc he said something stupid a few months ago.