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I just read this as i was backreading a search on chron.com
My questions is why do people go after the church about our actions in WWII against the jews when we have great examples like this man who fought against the grain…
chron.com/disp/story.mpl/pope/3388719.html
German bishop who denounced Hitler beatified
By FRANCES D’EMILIO
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — A German bishop whose homilies boldly condemned anti-Semitism and other policies of Hitler’s Nazi regime was beatified today in a ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica, moving him a step closer to possible sainthood.
Clemens August von Galen, known as the “Lion of Muenster” for his courageous sermons while bishop of the Germany city, died in 1946, shortly after Pope Pius XII promoted him to cardinal.
Von Galen’s homilies were secretly copied and circulated, according to German church officials. He also spoke out against the Nazi campaign to exterminate the mentally ill and handicapped.
Pope John Paul II used to lead the beatification ceremonies before large crowds in St. Peter’s Square, but Pope Benedict XVI has turned over the ceremonies to prelates. Sunday’s was presided over by Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, who heads the Vatican office that oversees the procedures for beatification and sainthood.
Beatification is the last formal step before possible sainthood.
Saraiva Martins hailed the bishop for denouncing the Nazi’s “death machine” during what were “very difficult times for the German Catholic church.” German-born Benedict arrived at the end of the ceremony to deliver remarks in his native tongue. “Von Galen feared God more than man and this gave him the courage to say and to (do) things that many intelligent persons did not do in that period in Germany,” he said. (words can not describe how much i am falling in love with Papa…man he is great…what a blessing to the church he is…)
My questions is why do people go after the church about our actions in WWII against the jews when we have great examples like this man who fought against the grain…
chron.com/disp/story.mpl/pope/3388719.html
German bishop who denounced Hitler beatified
By FRANCES D’EMILIO
Associated Press
VATICAN CITY — A German bishop whose homilies boldly condemned anti-Semitism and other policies of Hitler’s Nazi regime was beatified today in a ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica, moving him a step closer to possible sainthood.
Clemens August von Galen, known as the “Lion of Muenster” for his courageous sermons while bishop of the Germany city, died in 1946, shortly after Pope Pius XII promoted him to cardinal.
Von Galen’s homilies were secretly copied and circulated, according to German church officials. He also spoke out against the Nazi campaign to exterminate the mentally ill and handicapped.
Pope John Paul II used to lead the beatification ceremonies before large crowds in St. Peter’s Square, but Pope Benedict XVI has turned over the ceremonies to prelates. Sunday’s was presided over by Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, who heads the Vatican office that oversees the procedures for beatification and sainthood.
Beatification is the last formal step before possible sainthood.
Saraiva Martins hailed the bishop for denouncing the Nazi’s “death machine” during what were “very difficult times for the German Catholic church.” German-born Benedict arrived at the end of the ceremony to deliver remarks in his native tongue. “Von Galen feared God more than man and this gave him the courage to say and to (do) things that many intelligent persons did not do in that period in Germany,” he said. (words can not describe how much i am falling in love with Papa…man he is great…what a blessing to the church he is…)
