Vatican slams priest's comments on wartime pope [CNAU]

[Catholic_Press]

Jun 21, '09 5:00 pm
The Vatican has rebuffed as “unjustified and inopportune” comments by Pope Pius XII expert, Jesuit Fr Peter Gumpel, that pressure from Jewish organisations is delaying the beatification of the controversial wartime pope.

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Fr Gumpel, who is spearheading Pius’ cause, said at a conference in Rome that Pope Benedict XVI was “impressed” by warnings that relations with Jews would be ruined if he put the World War II pontiff on the road to sainthood, Associated Press reports.

The ANSA news agency quoted Gumpel as saying that in recent meetings Jewish leaders had told Benedict that “relations between the Catholic Church and Jews would be definitively and permanently compromised” by Pius’ beatification.

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[Darryl1958]

Jewish leaders also criticised the priest’s comments, with Rome’s Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni denying that Jews were responsible for any delay.

Jews have good reason not to want to be blamed for such covert interference in Catholic affairs.

 

[Victorious]

Whatever the reason is for delaying Pius XII’s cause for sainthood, I wish it would go away so we can raise him to the altar already. Pius XII was a brave, holy and thoroughly adorable Pope.

 

[Canto]

Some Jewish organisations or people may have expressed their concerns, not sure how widespread though, but if the requisite miralces are there then the great Pope Pius XII will no doubt be made a Saint and deservedly so.