Buchanan - 'Catholic-bashers and Pius' defenders'

[judicame]

They will not let it go. Perhaps some awkward qustions should be asked about the 60 odd million Christians that were killed.

Catholic-bashers and Pius’ defenders

Pat Buchanan

Posted: May 18, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 Creators Syndicate Inc.

Leave it to the New York Times. On the eve of Pentecost, the birthday of the church, this Catholic-baiting newspaper opened its op-ed page to a venomous anti-Catholic rant by Arthur Hertzberg, “a visiting professor of the humanities” at New York University. Hertzberg slandered no fewer than three popes. Not only did the church of Pius XII remain “silent while Europe’s Jews were murdered,” he alleges, the church of John Paul II taught Catholics that the “sin of letting the Holocaust happen at its doorstep need not haunt the church …”…]

worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44329

 

[Ruthmary]

judicame:

They will not let it go. Perhaps some awkward qustions should be asked about the 60 odd million Christians that were killed.

It is frustrating that these lies are out there and people believe them, but it’s even more frustrating that many Catholics are so very ignorant of Church history and they believe this stuff, too.

 

[mpav]

Thanks for posting this. I live in NYC and have many Jewish freinds and aquaintances. As a result of reading this I have searched for similar material and found a wealth fo things to toss back at them when they accuse Pius of abandoning the Jews.

Let’s hope he is canonized soon. He suffered much, and has had little thanks for it, except in the celestial halls of heaven.

 

[Eden]

Thanks for putting a thread up about this. I read this article in my local paper. Why is there a concerted effort to rewrite Pope Pius XII’s role in WWII? It’s just disturbing!