todorov & Hitler's Pope

[calbert at pop.tiac.net]

From:

CORNWELL'S POPE: 
              "A NASTY CARICATURE OF A NOBLE AND SAINTLY MAN" 

              Point by Point Rebuttal by Church Historian. Dr.Peter 
Gumpel 


"On the whole, one must say that Cornwell, who has never lived in a 
highly organized criminal  police state, is totally unaware of the 
situation prevailing in such a state and that, in consequence, a  
great many of his judgements, appraisals, suggestions, etc., are 
completely unrealistic, utopian and  anachronistic From an historical 
point of view, one must be able to understand the situation as it was 
 then and not judge it with the hindsight from today's situation in 
free countries. To proceed in such an  irresponsible manner is a 
capital mistake which is everywhere present in the book of Cornwell."

I'm guessing that the bulk of these clerics were dealing with the 
likelyhood of incarceration. Now crank that urgency up a couple of 
orders of magnitude, and you've got concentration camp inmates.

love,
cfa