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		<title>By: Joycey</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The chief rabbi of Rome became Catholic after WWII BECAUSE of what the Catholic church had done for Jews...over 700,000 had been saved, more than any other organisation and more than the UK or USA.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The chief rabbi of Rome became Catholic after WWII BECAUSE of what the Catholic church had done for Jews&#8230;over 700,000 had been saved, more than any other organisation and more than the UK or USA.</p>
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		<title>By: southwood</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you are calling Peter the apostle a liar ? That&#039;s chutzpah ok.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you are calling Peter the apostle a liar ? That&#8217;s chutzpah ok.</p>
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		<title>By: southwood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#039;s your &quot;janitor&quot;:

http://vaticanassassinsarchive.com/THE_SALESMAN_AND_A_CHEMIST_WHO_BECAME_POPE.pdf]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Here&#8217;s your &#8220;janitor&#8221;:</p>
<p><a href="http://vaticanassassinsarchive.com/THE_SALESMAN_AND_A_CHEMIST_WHO_BECAME_POPE.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://vaticanassassinsarchive.com/THE_SALESMAN_AND_A_CHEMIST_WHO_BECAME_POPE.pdf</a></p>
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		<title>By: southwood</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those are the words of Yad Vahem, not Haaretz. Read the article.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those are the words of Yad Vahem, not Haaretz. Read the article.</p>
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		<title>By: dqban22</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[TRUTH ON THE JEWS CHILDREN SAVED BY CATHOLICS  DURING THE HOLOCAUST VS THE DIFAMATORY CAMPAIGN AGAINST PIUS XII AND THE CHURCH

NY Times Wrong: Pius XII Saved Jews [Between 700K To 860K Jews Saved]

Newsmax.com ^ &#124; Jan. 27, 2005 &#124; P. Thierry

On Jan. 9, 2005 the New York Times published a prominent article entitled &quot;Saving Jewish Children, But At What Cost?&quot; in which it accuses the Vatican and Pope Pius XII of having given instructions not to allow Jewish
children who had been sheltered by Catholics during the war to return to their own families.  

With regard to the Jewish Children who, during the German occupation, have been entrusted to Catholic institutions and families and whom Jewish institutions are reclaiming to be entrusted to them, the decision that had the approval of the Holy Father was that the Jewish
children had to be returned to their Jewish families. 

Thus, the accusation of the New York Times that the directive contains an order not to allow Jewish Children who had been baptized Catholic to go home to their own parents is baseless and defamatory in nature. 

The Chief Rabbi of Palestine, Rabbi Isaak Herzog, in a letter addressed to Pius XII in March 1946 he writes, &quot;The people of Israel deeply remember with most profound gratitude the assistance given by the Holy See to the suffering people during the Nazi persecution,&quot; and he concludes with an invocation &quot;God willing, history will remember that when everything was dark for our people, His Holiness lit a light of hope for them.&quot; 

Indeed this was the letter of Rabbi Herzog in which he expressed the desire to Pius XII that Jewish children saved by the Church be given back to Jewish institutions and which triggered the decision of the Holy Office. The full text of Rabbi Herzog&#039;s letter is available at
http://www.vaticanfiles.net/intelligence3.htm. 

Also, Dr. Leon Kubowitzki (later, Aryeh Kubovy), the Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress, also visited the Vatican to discuss the same subject. In its official report on the matter, the Congress wrote: &quot;It was
essential to obtain the assent of the Catholic Church to the release of those it had sheltered during the years of persecution. …On September 21, 1945, he [Kubowitzki] was received in private audience by Pope Pius XII and, while expressing the gratitude of the Jewish people for having mercifully hidden many little victims of German ferocity, he pleaded that no obstacles be placed in the way of their return to the community of their perished fathers. He was given assurance that a most humane policy would be followed in this delicate matter.&quot; (Unity in Dispersion--The Story of the World Jewish Congress [New York: Institute of Jewish Affairs of the World Jewish Congress 1948] p. 303). 

A number of cases are known where Pope Pius XII had to intervene personally to make sure his instructions were followed. They show a thoughtful, humane man who respected the fundamental rights of Jewish children and their parents, proof directly contradicting the recent allegations against the wartime Pope. 

Leokadia Jaromirska, a Polish-Catholic rescuer, wanted to retain a Jewish girl she had protected during the Holocaust. Her custody struggle is told in the important book by Peter Hellman Avenue of the Righteous (New York: Atheneum, 2004). Describing her efforts to keep the female child, Bogusia, even after her father, Jonisz, had survived and come back to retrieve her, the  author writes: &quot;In a last ditch effort at getting authoritative backing on her side, Leokadia wrote a letter to Pius XII asking for his wisdom on the subject of Bogusia. In less than a month came an answer that struck down all
hope. She was instructed by the Pope to return the child to its father. If she were to keep the child by force or
stealth, in the end she would regret it, since, at school or elsewhere, the child would eventually learn the truth. It
was her duty as a Catholic not only to give back the child, but to do it with good will and in friendship.&quot; (p.237) 

In the New York Times Book Review, the book was described as worth reading just for the compelling story of Leokadia Jaromirska and the Jewish baby she named Bogusia. Apparently, the Times editors and writers who wrote the attack piece against Pius XII do not read their own Book Review. 

In another case, reported by Sister Grazia Loparco, Professor at the Pontifical Academy for Educational Sciences, a Jewish mother had found refuge in 1944 with her two children at the Convent of the Franciscan Missionary Sister of Marie on the via Balduina. After some time she asked that she and her children be baptized. The sacrament was given to them at their request in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. 

In 1945 after the liberation of Rome, the mother left the convent leaving her children in safekeeping with the nuns. In November 1947 she returned to the convent with a representative of a Jewish organization for children and asked for the children. She had had a change of heart and had returned to the Jewish faith. 

Not knowing what to do, the Sisters asked advise to the Vicariate of Rome, which in turn transmitted the request to the Secretariate of State. The response was immediate. Within 24 hours an audience was arranged with the Pope to discuss this specific case. Not the case of a forced baptism or a baptism administered against the order of the Church (the Church had given instructions during the war not to baptize the
Jewish children entrusted to them) but the case of a baptism requested explicitly by the mother for her and her children. 

How did Pope Pius XII answer? He ordered that the children be immediately
reunited with their mother (Volume 1, 2004, Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in
Italia (Vita e Pensiero)). 

The following question comes automatically to mind. If Pius XII personally ordered the reunion of Jewish children with their relatives, how is it possible
that diverse, if not opposite orders where given in His name? Dr. Leon Kubowitzki, the Secretary General
of the World Jewish Congress, may have the last word on this matter: almost twenty years after he met with Pius XII, and was promised help, he delivered a public lecture in Tel Aviv, on February 7, 1964, at which he declared: &quot;I can state now that I hardly know of a single case where Catholic institutions refused to return Jewish children.&quot; (Cited by Pinchas Lapide in Three Popes and the Jews [New York: Hawthorn Books] p. 210). 

In this book, Lapide, after years of research and personal testimonies that he had amassed, concluded that Pius XII &quot;was instrumental is saving at least 700,000, but probably as many as 860,000, Jews from certain death at Nazi hands.&quot; (p. 214)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TRUTH ON THE JEWS CHILDREN SAVED BY CATHOLICS  DURING THE HOLOCAUST VS THE DIFAMATORY CAMPAIGN AGAINST PIUS XII AND THE CHURCH</p>
<p>NY Times Wrong: Pius XII Saved Jews [Between 700K To 860K Jews Saved]</p>
<p>Newsmax.com ^ | Jan. 27, 2005 | P. Thierry</p>
<p>On Jan. 9, 2005 the New York Times published a prominent article entitled &#8220;Saving Jewish Children, But At What Cost?&#8221; in which it accuses the Vatican and Pope Pius XII of having given instructions not to allow Jewish<br />
children who had been sheltered by Catholics during the war to return to their own families.  </p>
<p>With regard to the Jewish Children who, during the German occupation, have been entrusted to Catholic institutions and families and whom Jewish institutions are reclaiming to be entrusted to them, the decision that had the approval of the Holy Father was that the Jewish<br />
children had to be returned to their Jewish families. </p>
<p>Thus, the accusation of the New York Times that the directive contains an order not to allow Jewish Children who had been baptized Catholic to go home to their own parents is baseless and defamatory in nature. </p>
<p>The Chief Rabbi of Palestine, Rabbi Isaak Herzog, in a letter addressed to Pius XII in March 1946 he writes, &#8220;The people of Israel deeply remember with most profound gratitude the assistance given by the Holy See to the suffering people during the Nazi persecution,&#8221; and he concludes with an invocation &#8220;God willing, history will remember that when everything was dark for our people, His Holiness lit a light of hope for them.&#8221; </p>
<p>Indeed this was the letter of Rabbi Herzog in which he expressed the desire to Pius XII that Jewish children saved by the Church be given back to Jewish institutions and which triggered the decision of the Holy Office. The full text of Rabbi Herzog&#8217;s letter is available at<br />
<a href="http://www.vaticanfiles.net/intelligence3.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.vaticanfiles.net/intelligence3.htm</a>. </p>
<p>Also, Dr. Leon Kubowitzki (later, Aryeh Kubovy), the Secretary General of the World Jewish Congress, also visited the Vatican to discuss the same subject. In its official report on the matter, the Congress wrote: &#8220;It was<br />
essential to obtain the assent of the Catholic Church to the release of those it had sheltered during the years of persecution. …On September 21, 1945, he [Kubowitzki] was received in private audience by Pope Pius XII and, while expressing the gratitude of the Jewish people for having mercifully hidden many little victims of German ferocity, he pleaded that no obstacles be placed in the way of their return to the community of their perished fathers. He was given assurance that a most humane policy would be followed in this delicate matter.&#8221; (Unity in Dispersion&#8211;The Story of the World Jewish Congress [New York: Institute of Jewish Affairs of the World Jewish Congress 1948] p. 303). </p>
<p>A number of cases are known where Pope Pius XII had to intervene personally to make sure his instructions were followed. They show a thoughtful, humane man who respected the fundamental rights of Jewish children and their parents, proof directly contradicting the recent allegations against the wartime Pope. </p>
<p>Leokadia Jaromirska, a Polish-Catholic rescuer, wanted to retain a Jewish girl she had protected during the Holocaust. Her custody struggle is told in the important book by Peter Hellman Avenue of the Righteous (New York: Atheneum, 2004). Describing her efforts to keep the female child, Bogusia, even after her father, Jonisz, had survived and come back to retrieve her, the  author writes: &#8220;In a last ditch effort at getting authoritative backing on her side, Leokadia wrote a letter to Pius XII asking for his wisdom on the subject of Bogusia. In less than a month came an answer that struck down all<br />
hope. She was instructed by the Pope to return the child to its father. If she were to keep the child by force or<br />
stealth, in the end she would regret it, since, at school or elsewhere, the child would eventually learn the truth. It<br />
was her duty as a Catholic not only to give back the child, but to do it with good will and in friendship.&#8221; (p.237) </p>
<p>In the New York Times Book Review, the book was described as worth reading just for the compelling story of Leokadia Jaromirska and the Jewish baby she named Bogusia. Apparently, the Times editors and writers who wrote the attack piece against Pius XII do not read their own Book Review. </p>
<p>In another case, reported by Sister Grazia Loparco, Professor at the Pontifical Academy for Educational Sciences, a Jewish mother had found refuge in 1944 with her two children at the Convent of the Franciscan Missionary Sister of Marie on the via Balduina. After some time she asked that she and her children be baptized. The sacrament was given to them at their request in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. </p>
<p>In 1945 after the liberation of Rome, the mother left the convent leaving her children in safekeeping with the nuns. In November 1947 she returned to the convent with a representative of a Jewish organization for children and asked for the children. She had had a change of heart and had returned to the Jewish faith. </p>
<p>Not knowing what to do, the Sisters asked advise to the Vicariate of Rome, which in turn transmitted the request to the Secretariate of State. The response was immediate. Within 24 hours an audience was arranged with the Pope to discuss this specific case. Not the case of a forced baptism or a baptism administered against the order of the Church (the Church had given instructions during the war not to baptize the<br />
Jewish children entrusted to them) but the case of a baptism requested explicitly by the mother for her and her children. </p>
<p>How did Pope Pius XII answer? He ordered that the children be immediately<br />
reunited with their mother (Volume 1, 2004, Rivista di Storia della Chiesa in<br />
Italia (Vita e Pensiero)). </p>
<p>The following question comes automatically to mind. If Pius XII personally ordered the reunion of Jewish children with their relatives, how is it possible<br />
that diverse, if not opposite orders where given in His name? Dr. Leon Kubowitzki, the Secretary General<br />
of the World Jewish Congress, may have the last word on this matter: almost twenty years after he met with Pius XII, and was promised help, he delivered a public lecture in Tel Aviv, on February 7, 1964, at which he declared: &#8220;I can state now that I hardly know of a single case where Catholic institutions refused to return Jewish children.&#8221; (Cited by Pinchas Lapide in Three Popes and the Jews [New York: Hawthorn Books] p. 210). </p>
<p>In this book, Lapide, after years of research and personal testimonies that he had amassed, concluded that Pius XII &#8220;was instrumental is saving at least 700,000, but probably as many as 860,000, Jews from certain death at Nazi hands.&#8221; (p. 214)</p>
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		<title>By: southwood</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your replies are just ridiculous. Just amazing. And you&#039;re an apologist for the most evil organization on the planet.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your replies are just ridiculous. Just amazing. And you&#8217;re an apologist for the most evil organization on the planet.</p>
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		<title>By: dqban22</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is absolutely preposterous to accuse the Catholic Church of anti-Semitism during the Holocaust or of not doing enough.  No other World organization, not even the American Jews, did more to save the Jews on Nazi occupied Europe.  Thanks to His Holiness Pius XII more than one
million Jews were saved from the gas chambers, while the British ordered to close the entrance of the fleeing Jews to Palestine and Franklin D. Roosevelt, although he knew of the existence of the extermination camps, he not only rejected the idea to bomb the railroad lines to the concentration camps, but he although denied entrance in the EE.UU. to the Jews who tried to flee the Nazis….Remember the Saint Louis…   Less than 10,000 Jews were allowed to find refuge in United States during the Holocaust.  

 This quite a contrast with the attitude of the Spanish dictator Generalisimo Franco who recognized as Spanish citizens all the
Sephardic Jews as descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, and opened to them its territories, even though there were 20 German division at the French border menacing enter Spain in order to take Gibraltar.   More than 60,000 were saved thanks to Franco’s orders.

 As Jeno Levai, the foremost scholar of the Holocaust in Hungary, said of Pius XII that it was “a particularly regrettable irony that the one person in all occupied Europe who did more than anyone else to halt the dreadful crime and alleviate its consequences is today made the scapegoat for the failures of others.”

Moshe Sharett, Israel’s first Foreign Minister, and later the second Prime Minister, met Pius XII in 1945 and said later: “I told him (Pius XII)  that my first duty was to thank; him, and through him, the Catholic Church, on behalf of the Jewish people, for all they had done in various countries to rescue Jews, to save the children and Jews in general.”

To those seeking the truth, what a better witness than the of Albert Einstein, the great Jewish physicist, who had first hand experience of the horrors of Nazism? In 1944 he said: “Being a lover of freedom, when the Nazi revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, but the universities were immediately silenced.  Then I looked to the great editors of newspapers, but they, like the universities were silenced in a few short weeks.  Then I looked to individual writers…they too were mute.  Only the Church,” Einstein concluded, “stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing the truth…I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel great affection
and admiration…and am forced thus to confess that what I once despised, I now praise unreservedly.”]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is absolutely preposterous to accuse the Catholic Church of anti-Semitism during the Holocaust or of not doing enough.  No other World organization, not even the American Jews, did more to save the Jews on Nazi occupied Europe.  Thanks to His Holiness Pius XII more than one<br />
million Jews were saved from the gas chambers, while the British ordered to close the entrance of the fleeing Jews to Palestine and Franklin D. Roosevelt, although he knew of the existence of the extermination camps, he not only rejected the idea to bomb the railroad lines to the concentration camps, but he although denied entrance in the EE.UU. to the Jews who tried to flee the Nazis….Remember the Saint Louis…   Less than 10,000 Jews were allowed to find refuge in United States during the Holocaust.  </p>
<p> This quite a contrast with the attitude of the Spanish dictator Generalisimo Franco who recognized as Spanish citizens all the<br />
Sephardic Jews as descendants of the Jews expelled from Spain in 1492, and opened to them its territories, even though there were 20 German division at the French border menacing enter Spain in order to take Gibraltar.   More than 60,000 were saved thanks to Franco’s orders.</p>
<p> As Jeno Levai, the foremost scholar of the Holocaust in Hungary, said of Pius XII that it was “a particularly regrettable irony that the one person in all occupied Europe who did more than anyone else to halt the dreadful crime and alleviate its consequences is today made the scapegoat for the failures of others.”</p>
<p>Moshe Sharett, Israel’s first Foreign Minister, and later the second Prime Minister, met Pius XII in 1945 and said later: “I told him (Pius XII)  that my first duty was to thank; him, and through him, the Catholic Church, on behalf of the Jewish people, for all they had done in various countries to rescue Jews, to save the children and Jews in general.”</p>
<p>To those seeking the truth, what a better witness than the of Albert Einstein, the great Jewish physicist, who had first hand experience of the horrors of Nazism? In 1944 he said: “Being a lover of freedom, when the Nazi revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, but the universities were immediately silenced.  Then I looked to the great editors of newspapers, but they, like the universities were silenced in a few short weeks.  Then I looked to individual writers…they too were mute.  Only the Church,” Einstein concluded, “stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing the truth…I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel great affection<br />
and admiration…and am forced thus to confess that what I once despised, I now praise unreservedly.”</p>
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		<title>By: dqban22</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 02:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Papa Pío XII: «Debes
sentirte orgulloso de ser judío»

Descubierto el testimonio de un joven judío publicado en 1944



ROMA, jueves, 16 noviembre 2006 (ZENIT.org).- Un
artículo publicado el 28 de abril de 1944 por un joven judío en «The Palestine
Post», convertido a partir de 1950 en «The Jerusalem Post» (el diario israelí
más importante y difundido), demuestra el aprecio de Pío XII  por el
«pueblo elegido».



En el artículo, publicado en la página seis de
la citada edición, con el título «Una Audiencia papal en tiempo de guerra», y
firmado «Por un refugiado» (al pie se dice que el autor del artículo llegó a
Palestina en la nave de refugiados «Nyassa»), el escritor relata que en otoño
de 1941 fue recibido, junto a otros judíos, en audiencia por el Papa Pío XII.



Cuando el Santo Padre se le acercó, el joven reveló haber nacido en Alemania
pero ser judío, y el Papa le respondió: «Dime, hijo, ¿qué puedo hacer por ti?».



El joven judío contó al Papa el naufragio de los judíos refugiados que fueron
salvados por una nave italiana en el mar Egeo y hechos prisioneros en un campo
en una isla local. El pontífice escuchó atentamente y se preocupó de la
situación física y sanitaria de los judíos hechos prisioneros.



Según el artículo, a continuación Pío XII le dijo: «Has hecho bien en venir
aquí a contarme esta historia, ya estaba informado al respecto. Ven mañana con
un informe escrito y entrégalo a la Secretaría de Estado, que se encargará de
la cuestión. Pero ahora, respecto a ti, hijo, eres un joven judío. Sé bien lo
que esto significa y espero que tú estés siempre orgulloso de ser judío».



A continuación, el autor del artículo subraya que el pontífice alzó la voz de
manera que todos en la sala pudieran escucharlo claramente: «Hijo, aquello de
lo que eres merecedor sólo el Señor lo sabe, pero créeme, ¡tú tienes la misma
dignidad de cualquier otro ser humano que vive en nuestra tierra! Y ahora, mi
querido amigo judío, ve con la protección de Dios, y no olvides nunca de
sentirte orgulloso de ser judío».



Relata el autor del artículo que, tras esta declaración hecha en alta voz, el
Papa alzó la mano para darle la acostumbrada bendición pero «se detuvo, sonrió,
y con los dedos me tocó la cabeza y me invitó a levantarme», dado que estaba
arrodillado.



Pío XII pronunció estas palabras en el curso de una audiencia en la que estaban
presentes cardenales, obispos y también un grupo de soldados alemanes.



Este importante testimonio ha sido descubierto en el Archivo de la Universidad
de Tel Aviv por William Doino, colaborador de la revista estadounidense «Inside
the Vatican» y autor de una bibliografía razonada en el libro «The Pius War:
Responses to the Critics of Pius XII» (La guerra de Pío: Respuestas a las
críticas a Pío XII), en 2004, de  Lexington Books.



Según William Doino, «este testimonio es relevante porque muestra la atención y
el gran amor con el que el pontífice miraba a los judíos, además de reafirmar
el rechazo de las teorías raciales nazis que señalaban a los judíos como los
últimos de la tierra».



Sobre este asunto, William Doino publicará en el número de diciembre de «Inside
The Vatican» una información completa sobre la copia original de «The Jerusalem
Post».



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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Papa Pío XII: «Debes<br />
sentirte orgulloso de ser judío»</p>
<p>Descubierto el testimonio de un joven judío publicado en 1944</p>
<p>ROMA, jueves, 16 noviembre 2006 (ZENIT.org).- Un<br />
artículo publicado el 28 de abril de 1944 por un joven judío en «The Palestine<br />
Post», convertido a partir de 1950 en «The Jerusalem Post» (el diario israelí<br />
más importante y difundido), demuestra el aprecio de Pío XII  por el<br />
«pueblo elegido».</p>
<p>En el artículo, publicado en la página seis de<br />
la citada edición, con el título «Una Audiencia papal en tiempo de guerra», y<br />
firmado «Por un refugiado» (al pie se dice que el autor del artículo llegó a<br />
Palestina en la nave de refugiados «Nyassa»), el escritor relata que en otoño<br />
de 1941 fue recibido, junto a otros judíos, en audiencia por el Papa Pío XII.</p>
<p>Cuando el Santo Padre se le acercó, el joven reveló haber nacido en Alemania<br />
pero ser judío, y el Papa le respondió: «Dime, hijo, ¿qué puedo hacer por ti?».</p>
<p>El joven judío contó al Papa el naufragio de los judíos refugiados que fueron<br />
salvados por una nave italiana en el mar Egeo y hechos prisioneros en un campo<br />
en una isla local. El pontífice escuchó atentamente y se preocupó de la<br />
situación física y sanitaria de los judíos hechos prisioneros.</p>
<p>Según el artículo, a continuación Pío XII le dijo: «Has hecho bien en venir<br />
aquí a contarme esta historia, ya estaba informado al respecto. Ven mañana con<br />
un informe escrito y entrégalo a la Secretaría de Estado, que se encargará de<br />
la cuestión. Pero ahora, respecto a ti, hijo, eres un joven judío. Sé bien lo<br />
que esto significa y espero que tú estés siempre orgulloso de ser judío».</p>
<p>A continuación, el autor del artículo subraya que el pontífice alzó la voz de<br />
manera que todos en la sala pudieran escucharlo claramente: «Hijo, aquello de<br />
lo que eres merecedor sólo el Señor lo sabe, pero créeme, ¡tú tienes la misma<br />
dignidad de cualquier otro ser humano que vive en nuestra tierra! Y ahora, mi<br />
querido amigo judío, ve con la protección de Dios, y no olvides nunca de<br />
sentirte orgulloso de ser judío».</p>
<p>Relata el autor del artículo que, tras esta declaración hecha en alta voz, el<br />
Papa alzó la mano para darle la acostumbrada bendición pero «se detuvo, sonrió,<br />
y con los dedos me tocó la cabeza y me invitó a levantarme», dado que estaba<br />
arrodillado.</p>
<p>Pío XII pronunció estas palabras en el curso de una audiencia en la que estaban<br />
presentes cardenales, obispos y también un grupo de soldados alemanes.</p>
<p>Este importante testimonio ha sido descubierto en el Archivo de la Universidad<br />
de Tel Aviv por William Doino, colaborador de la revista estadounidense «Inside<br />
the Vatican» y autor de una bibliografía razonada en el libro «The Pius War:<br />
Responses to the Critics of Pius XII» (La guerra de Pío: Respuestas a las<br />
críticas a Pío XII), en 2004, de  Lexington Books.</p>
<p>Según William Doino, «este testimonio es relevante porque muestra la atención y<br />
el gran amor con el que el pontífice miraba a los judíos, además de reafirmar<br />
el rechazo de las teorías raciales nazis que señalaban a los judíos como los<br />
últimos de la tierra».</p>
<p>Sobre este asunto, William Doino publicará en el número de diciembre de «Inside<br />
The Vatican» una información completa sobre la copia original de «The Jerusalem<br />
Post».</p>
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		<title>By: dqban22</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On February 28, 1945, the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Isaac
Herzog, sent a letter of gratitude to the Apostolic Nuncio in Rumania, Msgr. Andrea Cassulo, stating that: “The people of Israel will never forget what His Holiness and his illustrious delegates, inspired by the eternal principles of religion which
form the very foundations of civilization, are doing for us unfortunate brothers and sisters in the most tragic hour of our history, which is living prove of divine Providence in this world.” (31)

Rabbi Herzog’s heartfelt words should suffice to forever end the slanderous attacks to the memory of the great protector of the Jews, Pius XII and the Catholic Church.

To those seeking the truth, what a better witness than the testimony of Albert Einstein, the great Jewish physicist, who had first hand experience of the horrors of Nazism? In 1944 he said: “Being a lover of freedom, when the Nazi revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, but the universities were immediately silenced.  Then I looked to the great editors of newspapers, but they, like the universities were silenced in a few short weeks.  Then I looked to individual writers…they too were mute.  Only the Church,” Einstein concluded, “stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing the truth…I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel great affection and admiration…and am forced thus to confess that what I once despised, I now
praise unreservedly.”(33)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On February 28, 1945, the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Isaac<br />
Herzog, sent a letter of gratitude to the Apostolic Nuncio in Rumania, Msgr. Andrea Cassulo, stating that: “The people of Israel will never forget what His Holiness and his illustrious delegates, inspired by the eternal principles of religion which<br />
form the very foundations of civilization, are doing for us unfortunate brothers and sisters in the most tragic hour of our history, which is living prove of divine Providence in this world.” (31)</p>
<p>Rabbi Herzog’s heartfelt words should suffice to forever end the slanderous attacks to the memory of the great protector of the Jews, Pius XII and the Catholic Church.</p>
<p>To those seeking the truth, what a better witness than the testimony of Albert Einstein, the great Jewish physicist, who had first hand experience of the horrors of Nazism? In 1944 he said: “Being a lover of freedom, when the Nazi revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, but the universities were immediately silenced.  Then I looked to the great editors of newspapers, but they, like the universities were silenced in a few short weeks.  Then I looked to individual writers…they too were mute.  Only the Church,” Einstein concluded, “stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing the truth…I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel great affection and admiration…and am forced thus to confess that what I once despised, I now<br />
praise unreservedly.”(33)</p>
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		<title>By: defcon 4</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[defcon 4]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;the major part&quot;? A MILLION people have been slaughtered by muslimes (in the Sudan/Darfur) in the 21st century and muslimes are continuing to persecute, murder, rape and forcibly convert people of other faiths all over the world and the CC is the &quot;major part&quot;? If you believe that, then move to ANY islamic state and you&#039;ll never be bothered by the evil Catholics ever again.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;the major part&#8221;? A MILLION people have been slaughtered by muslimes (in the Sudan/Darfur) in the 21st century and muslimes are continuing to persecute, murder, rape and forcibly convert people of other faiths all over the world and the CC is the &#8220;major part&#8221;? If you believe that, then move to ANY islamic state and you&#8217;ll never be bothered by the evil Catholics ever again.</p>
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		<title>By: defcon 4</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[defcon 4]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relative to how the amoral assholes in the enemedia portray islam, the CC is demonized, for nothing at all.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Relative to how the amoral assholes in the enemedia portray islam, the CC is demonized, for nothing at all.</p>
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		<title>By: defcon 4</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[defcon 4]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Romans, the people who invented crucifixion and it did it often and well. Who was Peter? A southern baptist? What was he doing in Jerusalem? Was he on vacation? What were any of Jesus&#039; apostles doing in Jerusalem?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Romans, the people who invented crucifixion and it did it often and well. Who was Peter? A southern baptist? What was he doing in Jerusalem? Was he on vacation? What were any of Jesus&#8217; apostles doing in Jerusalem?</p>
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		<title>By: defcon 4</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[defcon 4]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haaretz, aren&#039;t they just to the left of the PRC?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Haaretz, aren&#8217;t they just to the left of the PRC?</p>
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		<title>By: defcon 4</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[defcon 4]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You mean WW2 right? What if he worked there as a janitor? Or a security guard? Or as an accountant? What if he didn&#039;t even know that the chemicals were being used for? What about proof?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You mean WW2 right? What if he worked there as a janitor? Or a security guard? Or as an accountant? What if he didn&#8217;t even know that the chemicals were being used for? What about proof?</p>
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		<title>By: defcon 4</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[defcon 4]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#039;t know this.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t know this.</p>
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		<title>By: dqban22</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[dqban22]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In November, 1943, Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, wrote to Cardinal Roncalli, (the future Pope John XXIII) then Apostolic Delegate to and Greece, stating: “I take this opportunity to express to your Eminence my sincere thanks as well as my deep appreciation of your kindly attitude to Israel and of the invaluable help given by the Catholic Church to the Jewish people in its affliction.  Would you please convey these sentiments which come from Sion, to His Holiness the Pope (Pius XII) along with the assurances that the people of Israel know how to value his assistance and his attitude.”  (24) The American Jewish Welfare Board wrote to Pius XII on July 1944 to express their appreciation for the protection given to the Jews during  the German occupation of Italy. 

 In 1944 the War Refugee Board came into existence as the united effort of several American Jewish organizations. During and after the war, the War Refugee Board publicly acknowledged its close relationship with
the Holy See.  The documentation includes the correspondence from eminent rabbinical leaders who made special appeals to the Holy See; among them are the Grand Rabbi of Jerusalem, Dr. Issac Herzog; the Grand Rabbi of the British Empire, Dr. Joseph Hertz; and Rabbi Abraham Kalmanowitz, leader of the rabbinical school of Mir, in Lithuania.

 Fr. William Saunders has quoted Dr. Raphael Cantoni, a leader in Italy’s Jewish Assistance Committee, declaring that “The Church and the Papacy have saved Jews as much and insofar as they could Christians. 
Six million of my co-religionists have been murdered by the Nazis…but
there would have been many more victims had it not been for the efficacious intervention of Pius XII.” (25)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In November, 1943, Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, wrote to Cardinal Roncalli, (the future Pope John XXIII) then Apostolic Delegate to and Greece, stating: “I take this opportunity to express to your Eminence my sincere thanks as well as my deep appreciation of your kindly attitude to Israel and of the invaluable help given by the Catholic Church to the Jewish people in its affliction.  Would you please convey these sentiments which come from Sion, to His Holiness the Pope (Pius XII) along with the assurances that the people of Israel know how to value his assistance and his attitude.”  (24) The American Jewish Welfare Board wrote to Pius XII on July 1944 to express their appreciation for the protection given to the Jews during  the German occupation of Italy. </p>
<p> In 1944 the War Refugee Board came into existence as the united effort of several American Jewish organizations. During and after the war, the War Refugee Board publicly acknowledged its close relationship with<br />
the Holy See.  The documentation includes the correspondence from eminent rabbinical leaders who made special appeals to the Holy See; among them are the Grand Rabbi of Jerusalem, Dr. Issac Herzog; the Grand Rabbi of the British Empire, Dr. Joseph Hertz; and Rabbi Abraham Kalmanowitz, leader of the rabbinical school of Mir, in Lithuania.</p>
<p> Fr. William Saunders has quoted Dr. Raphael Cantoni, a leader in Italy’s Jewish Assistance Committee, declaring that “The Church and the Papacy have saved Jews as much and insofar as they could Christians.<br />
Six million of my co-religionists have been murdered by the Nazis…but<br />
there would have been many more victims had it not been for the efficacious intervention of Pius XII.” (25)</p>
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		<title>By: dqban22</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[dqban22]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1937, Pius XI published the Encyclical “Mit Brennender Sorge,” stating  that Catholics must never be anti-Semite.

On March 14, 1937, before it was fashionable to denounce the German Führer as a villain and long before the creation of the concentration camps and the gas chambers, Pius XI, ably seconded by his Secretary of State, wrote the Encyclical “Mit Brennender Sorge” meaning “with burning anxiety”. It dealt with the nazi threat to racial minorities and  specifically the Jews addressing the Encyclical directly to the German
people.  The Encyclical exhorted that Catholics must never be anti-Semitic because “we are all Semites spiritually” and ought to hold the Jewish people in high regard accordingly.  The Encyclical exposed to the world the III Reich’s persecution of the Catholic Church as well as the incompatibility  between the principles of the National Socialism and those of the Catholic faith.  The German government prohibited the entrance of the Encyclical to the country and it became necessary to smuggle it into Germany under the nose of the ruthless Gestapo. On Sunday March 21, The Encyclical was read from 12,000 Catholic pulpits across Germany.  As a result, the Nazi’s campaign of innuendoes against The Church as well as the persecution of Catholics worsened.

The German Catholic hierarchy thanked Pope Pius XI for the letter, which strongly condemned both, racism and anti-Semitism.  The Pope pointed to Cardinal Pacelli saying  that it was he who had been responsible for the Encyclical. It was th Secretary of State, who asked the German Cardinal Faulhaber to submit a draft text, which he amended carefully. Pacelli also bore the burden of its defense when the Encyclical was the subject of strong German diplomatic protests; he did so personally, not by
delegation.  

The Vatican condemns Communism with the Encyclical “Divini Redemptori” in 1937

 Pius XI and his Secretary of State were following the
Magisterium of the Church when they published on March 19, 1937, the Encyclical “Divini Redemptori.”  It was a most comprehensive and devastating condemnation of Communism as “intrinsically perverse.”  Already Pius IX, as early as 1846, pronounced in the Encyclical “Qui pluribus,” a solemn condemnation of  Communism “that infamous doctrine which is absolutely contrary to natural law itself, and if once adopted would utterly destroy the rights, the property and possessions of all men, and even society itself.”  Pope Leo XIII in his Encyclical “Quod apostolici muneri,” defined communism as “the fatal plague that insinuates itself into the very marrow of human society only to bring about its ruin.” Pius XI and Pius XII were highly active, energetic and zealous opponents of totalitarianism and oppression in every form-for them, National Socialism and Communism were both intrinsically evil.

Pope Pius XII’s first Encyclical, “Summi Pontificatus”, in
1939, attacks Nazism and Communism-Pius XII’s first encyclical on October 27, 1939, “Summi Pontificatus” reiterated the attack on the German regime and the Gestapo was ordered to prevent its distribution.
In it, the Pope declared his position “against exacerbated nationalism, the idolatry of the state, totalitarianism, racism, the cult of brutal force, contempt of international agreements”, against all the characteristics of Hitler’s political system; he laid the responsibility for the scourge of the war on these aberrations.  The Allies airdropped 88,000 copies of the Encyclical over Germany.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 1937, Pius XI published the Encyclical “Mit Brennender Sorge,” stating  that Catholics must never be anti-Semite.</p>
<p>On March 14, 1937, before it was fashionable to denounce the German Führer as a villain and long before the creation of the concentration camps and the gas chambers, Pius XI, ably seconded by his Secretary of State, wrote the Encyclical “Mit Brennender Sorge” meaning “with burning anxiety”. It dealt with the nazi threat to racial minorities and  specifically the Jews addressing the Encyclical directly to the German<br />
people.  The Encyclical exhorted that Catholics must never be anti-Semitic because “we are all Semites spiritually” and ought to hold the Jewish people in high regard accordingly.  The Encyclical exposed to the world the III Reich’s persecution of the Catholic Church as well as the incompatibility  between the principles of the National Socialism and those of the Catholic faith.  The German government prohibited the entrance of the Encyclical to the country and it became necessary to smuggle it into Germany under the nose of the ruthless Gestapo. On Sunday March 21, The Encyclical was read from 12,000 Catholic pulpits across Germany.  As a result, the Nazi’s campaign of innuendoes against The Church as well as the persecution of Catholics worsened.</p>
<p>The German Catholic hierarchy thanked Pope Pius XI for the letter, which strongly condemned both, racism and anti-Semitism.  The Pope pointed to Cardinal Pacelli saying  that it was he who had been responsible for the Encyclical. It was th Secretary of State, who asked the German Cardinal Faulhaber to submit a draft text, which he amended carefully. Pacelli also bore the burden of its defense when the Encyclical was the subject of strong German diplomatic protests; he did so personally, not by<br />
delegation.  </p>
<p>The Vatican condemns Communism with the Encyclical “Divini Redemptori” in 1937</p>
<p> Pius XI and his Secretary of State were following the<br />
Magisterium of the Church when they published on March 19, 1937, the Encyclical “Divini Redemptori.”  It was a most comprehensive and devastating condemnation of Communism as “intrinsically perverse.”  Already Pius IX, as early as 1846, pronounced in the Encyclical “Qui pluribus,” a solemn condemnation of  Communism “that infamous doctrine which is absolutely contrary to natural law itself, and if once adopted would utterly destroy the rights, the property and possessions of all men, and even society itself.”  Pope Leo XIII in his Encyclical “Quod apostolici muneri,” defined communism as “the fatal plague that insinuates itself into the very marrow of human society only to bring about its ruin.” Pius XI and Pius XII were highly active, energetic and zealous opponents of totalitarianism and oppression in every form-for them, National Socialism and Communism were both intrinsically evil.</p>
<p>Pope Pius XII’s first Encyclical, “Summi Pontificatus”, in<br />
1939, attacks Nazism and Communism-Pius XII’s first encyclical on October 27, 1939, “Summi Pontificatus” reiterated the attack on the German regime and the Gestapo was ordered to prevent its distribution.<br />
In it, the Pope declared his position “against exacerbated nationalism, the idolatry of the state, totalitarianism, racism, the cult of brutal force, contempt of international agreements”, against all the characteristics of Hitler’s political system; he laid the responsibility for the scourge of the war on these aberrations.  The Allies airdropped 88,000 copies of the Encyclical over Germany.</p>
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		<title>By: southwood</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[southwood]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;The Holy See made every possible
effort to help the Jews.&quot;

Really ? Well even after softening their stance slightly on Pius XII the people at Yad Vashem  would condemn that statement as  completely without foundation. The evidence is overwhelming that Pius XII did hardly anything to save Jewish lives.

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/israel-s-yad-vashem-holocaust-memorial-softens-stance-on-pius-xii.premium-1.447920]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The Holy See made every possible<br />
effort to help the Jews.&#8221;</p>
<p>Really ? Well even after softening their stance slightly on Pius XII the people at Yad Vashem  would condemn that statement as  completely without foundation. The evidence is overwhelming that Pius XII did hardly anything to save Jewish lives.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/israel-s-yad-vashem-holocaust-memorial-softens-stance-on-pius-xii.premium-1.447920" rel="nofollow">http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/israel-s-yad-vashem-holocaust-memorial-softens-stance-on-pius-xii.premium-1.447920</a></p>
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		<title>By: dqban22</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[dqban22]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel Honors Pius XII

 Israeli senior diplomat and nowOrthodox Jewish Rabbi,  Pinchas Lapide, with access to Yad Vashem’s archives,
has stated in his book, “Three Popes and the Jews”, that “The Catholic Church relief and rescue program under the pontificate of Pius XII was instrumental in saving the lives of as many as 860,000 Jews from certain death at Nazi’s hands.  That was more than all other Churches, religious institutions and international rescue
organizations put together.” (17) The Israelis recognized the lives saved by planting a forest, in commemoration, of as many trees in theNegeb, SE of Jerusalem. This forest was shown to Pope Paul VI during his first state visit to Israel.

At the end of the War, the World Jewish Congress, the
American Jewish Committee, Albert Einstein, and many other prominent Jewishleaders expressed their deep gratitude toward Pius XII and the Catholic Church.
On the death of Pius XII (1958), Golda Meir, the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, gave a heartfelt eulogy for the Popebefore the UN Assembly.

In his scholar book, “TheLast Three Popes and the Jews”, Lapide said that Pius XII was one of the few world leaders outside the Jewry itself who was quick to recognize the danger of Nazism.  Lapide demonstrates
convincingly the consistent and active protection provided to the Jews by the papacy.  In Lapide’s words:

“When armed force ruled well-nigh omnipotent, and morality was at its lowest ebb, Pius XI commanded non of the former and could only appeal to the latter, in confronting with bare hands, the full might of evil.

A sounding protest, which might turn out to be self-thwarting-or quiet piecemeal rescue? Loud words- or prudent deeds? The dilemma must have been sheer agony, for whichever course he chose horrible consequences were inevitable.  Unable to cure the sickness of an entire civilization, and unwilling to bear the brunt of Hitler’s fury, the Pope,unlike many far mightier than he, alleviated, relieved, appealed, petitioned-and saved as most efficient he could by his own lights.

Who, but a prophet or a martyr could have done much more?

The Talmud teaches us that ‘whoever preserves one life, it is accounted to him by Scripture as if he had preserved a whole world.’

If this is true-and it is as true as that of most Jewish of tenets, the sanctity of human life-then Pius XII deserves that forest in Judean hills, which kindly people of Israel proposed for him in October 1958. A memorial forest with 860,000 trees.”  (Emphasis added. “Three Popes and the Jews.” pp.267-269)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel Honors Pius XII</p>
<p> Israeli senior diplomat and nowOrthodox Jewish Rabbi,  Pinchas Lapide, with access to Yad Vashem’s archives,<br />
has stated in his book, “Three Popes and the Jews”, that “The Catholic Church relief and rescue program under the pontificate of Pius XII was instrumental in saving the lives of as many as 860,000 Jews from certain death at Nazi’s hands.  That was more than all other Churches, religious institutions and international rescue<br />
organizations put together.” (17) The Israelis recognized the lives saved by planting a forest, in commemoration, of as many trees in theNegeb, SE of Jerusalem. This forest was shown to Pope Paul VI during his first state visit to Israel.</p>
<p>At the end of the War, the World Jewish Congress, the<br />
American Jewish Committee, Albert Einstein, and many other prominent Jewishleaders expressed their deep gratitude toward Pius XII and the Catholic Church.<br />
On the death of Pius XII (1958), Golda Meir, the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, gave a heartfelt eulogy for the Popebefore the UN Assembly.</p>
<p>In his scholar book, “TheLast Three Popes and the Jews”, Lapide said that Pius XII was one of the few world leaders outside the Jewry itself who was quick to recognize the danger of Nazism.  Lapide demonstrates<br />
convincingly the consistent and active protection provided to the Jews by the papacy.  In Lapide’s words:</p>
<p>“When armed force ruled well-nigh omnipotent, and morality was at its lowest ebb, Pius XI commanded non of the former and could only appeal to the latter, in confronting with bare hands, the full might of evil.</p>
<p>A sounding protest, which might turn out to be self-thwarting-or quiet piecemeal rescue? Loud words- or prudent deeds? The dilemma must have been sheer agony, for whichever course he chose horrible consequences were inevitable.  Unable to cure the sickness of an entire civilization, and unwilling to bear the brunt of Hitler’s fury, the Pope,unlike many far mightier than he, alleviated, relieved, appealed, petitioned-and saved as most efficient he could by his own lights.</p>
<p>Who, but a prophet or a martyr could have done much more?</p>
<p>The Talmud teaches us that ‘whoever preserves one life, it is accounted to him by Scripture as if he had preserved a whole world.’</p>
<p>If this is true-and it is as true as that of most Jewish of tenets, the sanctity of human life-then Pius XII deserves that forest in Judean hills, which kindly people of Israel proposed for him in October 1958. A memorial forest with 860,000 trees.”  (Emphasis added. “Three Popes and the Jews.” pp.267-269)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE RESCUE OF THE
JEWS.  The Holy See made every possible
effort to help the Jews.

 

Jewish population in Europe as the war begins

 

When Hitler came to power, about 6 million Jews lived in
Central and Western Europe and 3 million inside the Soviet Union.  About 600,000 were German, 180,000 Austrian,
270,000 French, 340,000 British, 150,000 Dutch, 360,000 Checks, 500,000
Hungarian, and 3 ½ million Poles.  The
first attacks against the German Jews started in March 1933 by way of several
anti-Semite laws. Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and many other important
scientists were among the 100,000 Jews who were able to escape between 1933 and
1939.

 

Israel Honors Pius XII

 

Israeli senior diplomat and now
Orthodox Jewish Rabbi, Pinchas Lapide, with access to Yad Vashem’s archives,
has stated in his book, “Three Popes and
the Jews”, that “The Catholic Church relief and rescue program under the pontificate of
Pius XII was instrumental in saving the lives of as many as 860,000 Jews from
certain death at Nazi’s hands.  That was
more than all other Churches, religious institutions and international rescue
organizations put together.” (17) The Israelis recognized the
lives saved by planting a forest, in commemoration, of as many trees in the
Negeb, SE of Jerusalem. This forest was shown to Pope Paul VI during his first
state visit to Israel.

 

At the end of the War, the World Jewish Congress, the
American Jewish Committee, Albert Einstein, and many other prominent Jewish
leaders expressed their deep gratitude toward Pius XII and the Catholic Church.
On the death of Pius XII (1958), Golda Meir,
the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, gave a heartfelt eulogy for the Pope
before the UN Assembly.

 

In his scholar book, “The
Last Three Popes and the Jews”, Lapide said that Pius XII was one of the
few world leaders outside the Jewry itself who was quick to recognize the
danger of Nazism.  Lapide demonstrates
convincingly the consistent and active protection provided to the Jews in
Europe by the papacy.  In Lapide’s words:

 

“When armed force ruled well-nigh omnipotent, and morality was at its
lowest ebb, Pius XI commanded non of the former and could only appeal to the
latter, in confronting with bare hands, the full might of evil.

A sounding protest, which might
turn out to be self-thwarting-or quiet piecemeal rescue? Loud words- or prudent
deeds? The dilemma must have been sheer agony, for whichever course he chose
horrible consequences were inevitable.  Unable to cure the sickness of an entire
civilization, and unwilling to bear the brunt of Hitler’s fury, the Pope,
unlike many far mightier than he, alleviated, relieved, appealed,
petitioned-and saved as most efficient he could by his own lights.

Who, but a prophet or a martyr could have
done much more?

The Talmud teaches us that ‘whoever preserves one life, it is
accounted to him by Scripture as if he had preserved a whole world.’

If this is true-and it is as true as that of
most Jewish of tenets, the sanctity of human life-then Pius XII deserves that
forest in Judean hills, which kindly people of Israel proposed for him in
October 1958. A memorial forest with 860,000 trees.”  (Emphasis added. “Three Popes and the Jews.” pp.267-269)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THE RESCUE OF THE<br />
JEWS.  The Holy See made every possible<br />
effort to help the Jews.</p>
<p>Jewish population in Europe as the war begins</p>
<p>When Hitler came to power, about 6 million Jews lived in<br />
Central and Western Europe and 3 million inside the Soviet Union.  About 600,000 were German, 180,000 Austrian,<br />
270,000 French, 340,000 British, 150,000 Dutch, 360,000 Checks, 500,000<br />
Hungarian, and 3 ½ million Poles.  The<br />
first attacks against the German Jews started in March 1933 by way of several<br />
anti-Semite laws. Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and many other important<br />
scientists were among the 100,000 Jews who were able to escape between 1933 and<br />
1939.</p>
<p>Israel Honors Pius XII</p>
<p>Israeli senior diplomat and now<br />
Orthodox Jewish Rabbi, Pinchas Lapide, with access to Yad Vashem’s archives,<br />
has stated in his book, “Three Popes and<br />
the Jews”, that “The Catholic Church relief and rescue program under the pontificate of<br />
Pius XII was instrumental in saving the lives of as many as 860,000 Jews from<br />
certain death at Nazi’s hands.  That was<br />
more than all other Churches, religious institutions and international rescue<br />
organizations put together.” (17) The Israelis recognized the<br />
lives saved by planting a forest, in commemoration, of as many trees in the<br />
Negeb, SE of Jerusalem. This forest was shown to Pope Paul VI during his first<br />
state visit to Israel.</p>
<p>At the end of the War, the World Jewish Congress, the<br />
American Jewish Committee, Albert Einstein, and many other prominent Jewish<br />
leaders expressed their deep gratitude toward Pius XII and the Catholic Church.<br />
On the death of Pius XII (1958), Golda Meir,<br />
the Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, gave a heartfelt eulogy for the Pope<br />
before the UN Assembly.</p>
<p>In his scholar book, “The<br />
Last Three Popes and the Jews”, Lapide said that Pius XII was one of the<br />
few world leaders outside the Jewry itself who was quick to recognize the<br />
danger of Nazism.  Lapide demonstrates<br />
convincingly the consistent and active protection provided to the Jews in<br />
Europe by the papacy.  In Lapide’s words:</p>
<p>“When armed force ruled well-nigh omnipotent, and morality was at its<br />
lowest ebb, Pius XI commanded non of the former and could only appeal to the<br />
latter, in confronting with bare hands, the full might of evil.</p>
<p>A sounding protest, which might<br />
turn out to be self-thwarting-or quiet piecemeal rescue? Loud words- or prudent<br />
deeds? The dilemma must have been sheer agony, for whichever course he chose<br />
horrible consequences were inevitable.  Unable to cure the sickness of an entire<br />
civilization, and unwilling to bear the brunt of Hitler’s fury, the Pope,<br />
unlike many far mightier than he, alleviated, relieved, appealed,<br />
petitioned-and saved as most efficient he could by his own lights.</p>
<p>Who, but a prophet or a martyr could have<br />
done much more?</p>
<p>The Talmud teaches us that ‘whoever preserves one life, it is<br />
accounted to him by Scripture as if he had preserved a whole world.’</p>
<p>If this is true-and it is as true as that of<br />
most Jewish of tenets, the sanctity of human life-then Pius XII deserves that<br />
forest in Judean hills, which kindly people of Israel proposed for him in<br />
October 1958. A memorial forest with 860,000 trees.”  (Emphasis added. “Three Popes and the Jews.” pp.267-269)</p>
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