Pope and the Holocaust

[Richard Romeo]

>
>Of interest, perhaps, to those who followed the thread awhile back on the
>book, _Hitler's Pope_,

>"Every criticism of Pius XII, and undoubtedly he deserves many, must
>  nonetheless take into account that without Italian or, later, German
>  permission, such Vatican newspapers as L'Osservatore Romano could not 
>have
>  been published, the Vatican Radio would have fallen silent, and all
>  communications between the Vatican and the rest of the world would have 
>been
>  cut. Those of us who complain about the failure of the Pope to "speak 
>out"
>must also consider the question of how and how long he could have done so. 
>"
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the folly of maintaining the integrity of such lofty institutions at the 
expense of individual and mass suffering lends credence to those who 
subscribe to hating mother church down through the ages. We can look at 
Pius' record and not be surprised by his actions, but like the CIA or 
technology w/ a capital "T", refusing to address the infallability issue as 
not worthy of criticism, one either ends up acting in concert w/ mother 
church as the CIA does (as does the NYPD)by self-examination of its 
ills(which are deemed illusory by such bodies) or by putting the blame on 
the trigger and not the finger (look out ma..shelter me from the powder and 
the finger) we are reminded that these systems inherently are made to kill 
folks like us. That such systems are cloaked in the veils of religion, 
democracy, or progress,usw is surely a symbol for humankind's utter 
degradation of itself and what it seemly strives to overcome and transcend.
at the end of the review, you'll note our present pontiff's canonization of 
Pius is looked at as ultimately bewildering. Many in the church acted 
bravely in resisting the Nazis, but to canonize the lot via its head, is 
surely self-congratualtion at best, at worst, a confirmation of the return 
of the centralized, oppressive papacy, symbolized by John-Paul 2nd.

rich
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