NYT article on "Hitler's Pope"

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Apples and Apples, now that sounds like "fair criticism." 

Granted the RCC is a much bigger apple here, but an apple is
an apple and a mushroom is a mushroom. 





Did other groups, not burdened by a code of canon law,
        concordats or Vatican diplomacy, do better in
resisting
        Hitler? The German Protestant churches? The Catholic
        church in France? The other German political
parties? 

        "A fair criticism up to a point," Cornwell said of
his
        book's lack of comparisons, which results almost
        inevitably from the author's skill in keeping
Pacelli
        always in the foreground. If Pius XII was "Hitler's
        pawn," as Cornwell writes, then everyone else was
        Pacelli's pawn. No one seems to act from motives or
        principles, virtues or vices, independent of his --
not
        the German bishops, the Center Party leaders or even
        Pius' predecessor, Pius XI. One chapter describes
the
        young Pacelli's hand in the negotiation of a June
1914
        concordat with Serbia, and the reader ends up
        wondering whether this man did not also start World
        War I! 

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