More Irony Re: B16 and Islam

[Gabriel_Gale]

Among the most heated debates of the last 40 years has been the debate over Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust. What did he do when the greatest evil of his day engulfed Christian Europe? Was he “Hitler’s Pope,” as the name of a widely read book about him charged? Was he too reticent in speaking out against Nazism and the Nazi extermination of Europe’s Jews?..

But recently the critics have lost credibility. If the same people who attack Pope Pius XII for his silence regarding the greatest evil of his time are largely the same people who attack Pope Benedict XVI for confronting the greatest evil of his time, maybe it isn’t a pope’s confronting evil that concerns Pius’s critics, but simply defaming the Church……
Take The New York Times editorial page, for example. It is written by people who condemn Pius for his alleged silence and now condemn Benedict for not being quiet……

Another example is Karen Armstrong, the widely read ex-nun scholar of religion. She has written of Pius XII that his “apparent failure to condemn the Nazis has become a notorious scandal.”…….

And as expected, the author of the above-mentioned critique of Pius XII, “Hitler’s Pope,” John Cornwall, has also condemned Pope Benedict, describing the pope’s words about Muhammad and Islamic violence as “incendiary” and “abrasive” (presumably calling Pius XII “Hitler’s Pope” is neither incendiary nor abrasive);…

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/..._evil,_benedict_attacked_for_confronting_evil

 

[stellina]

Consider the sources - what else can we expect from them? The best thing to do is ignore them and deprive them of the attention that these overgrown brats crave.

 

[Genesis315]

GK Chesterton was convinced of the truth of Catholicism by the fact that it’s critics are always attacking her with conflicting and contradictory complaints.

 

[bones_IV]

Among the most heated debates of the last 40 years has been the debate over Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust. What did he do when the greatest evil of his day engulfed Christian Europe? Was he “Hitler’s Pope,” as the name of a widely read book about him charged? Was he too reticent in speaking out against Nazism and the Nazi extermination of Europe’s Jews?..

But recently the critics have lost credibility. If the same people who attack Pope Pius XII for his silence regarding the greatest evil of his time are largely the same people who attack Pope Benedict XVI for confronting the greatest evil of his time, maybe it isn’t a pope’s confronting evil that concerns Pius’s critics, but simply defaming the Church……
Take The New York Times editorial page, for example. It is written by people who condemn Pius for his alleged silence and now condemn Benedict for not being quiet……

Another example is Karen Armstrong, the widely read ex-nun scholar of religion. She has written of Pius XII that his “apparent failure to condemn the Nazis has become a notorious scandal.”…….

And as expected, the author of the above-mentioned critique of Pius XII, “Hitler’s Pope,” John Cornwall, has also condemned Pope Benedict, describing the pope’s words about Muhammad and Islamic violence as “incendiary” and “abrasive” (presumably calling Pius XII “Hitler’s Pope” is neither incendiary nor abrasive);…

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/..._evil,_benedict_attacked_for_confronting_evil

The colors of the liberal left are showing.