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CASTELLAMMARE DI STABIA, Italy - Maria Esposito was ready to give up. Wasted away at 42 kilos (92 pounds), she couldn’t bear another dose of chemotherapy to fight the Stage IV Burkitt’s lymphoma that had invaded her body while she was pregnant with her second child.
But as she and her family had done since she was diagnosed with the rare and aggressive form of cancer in July 2005, Esposito prayed to the man who had appeared to her husband in a dream as the only person who could save her: Pope Pius XII.
Esposito survived, cured after a single, six-week cycle of chemotherapy , a recovery that, she says, stunned her doctors and convinced her that the World War II-era pope had intervened with God to save her
…Pius was pope in 1939-1958. Before his election he served as the Vatican’s No. 2 and before that as papal nuncio to Germany. Given his deep involvement in the Vatican’s diplomatic affairs with the Nazis, what Pius did or didn’t do during the war has become the single most divisive issue in the Vatican’s relations with Jews…Jewish groups and historians have argued for years that the Vatican had no business moving forward with Pius’ beatification cause until the Vatican’s full secret archive of his papacy is opened to scholars for independent research. That process is expected to take several more years.
“My position has always been to say , and I’ve said it to Pope Benedict XVI , that this is a matter that should be deferred until at least the generation of Holocaust survivors is no longer with us, so it’s not as if rubbing the salt into their wounds,” said Rabbi David Rosen, head of interfaith relations at the American Jewish Committee
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But as she and her family had done since she was diagnosed with the rare and aggressive form of cancer in July 2005, Esposito prayed to the man who had appeared to her husband in a dream as the only person who could save her: Pope Pius XII.
Esposito survived, cured after a single, six-week cycle of chemotherapy , a recovery that, she says, stunned her doctors and convinced her that the World War II-era pope had intervened with God to save her
…Pius was pope in 1939-1958. Before his election he served as the Vatican’s No. 2 and before that as papal nuncio to Germany. Given his deep involvement in the Vatican’s diplomatic affairs with the Nazis, what Pius did or didn’t do during the war has become the single most divisive issue in the Vatican’s relations with Jews…Jewish groups and historians have argued for years that the Vatican had no business moving forward with Pius’ beatification cause until the Vatican’s full secret archive of his papacy is opened to scholars for independent research. That process is expected to take several more years.
“My position has always been to say , and I’ve said it to Pope Benedict XVI , that this is a matter that should be deferred until at least the generation of Holocaust survivors is no longer with us, so it’s not as if rubbing the salt into their wounds,” said Rabbi David Rosen, head of interfaith relations at the American Jewish Committee
What do you think?