1 This was an individual, the official church policy was to do nothing, the minute you learn the fucking difference you might be qualified to teach somewhere other than Texas,simpleton.

2 Listen, you profane coward, it would have been helpful for you to read the FIRST PARAGRAPH -- you know, the one in which I point out that Jewish Sources credit the Catholic Church with saving over 860,000 Jews -- including by the direct action of Pope Pius XII, which would seem to make that effort a matter of offiial church policy, given that he authorized the hiding of Jews within the Vatican itself.

But if you need a little more, consider these tidbits of information that would tend to prove your assertion incorrect.

1) On April 28, 1935, four years before the War even started, then-Cardinal Pacelli gave a speech that stated that the Nazis "are in reality only miserable plagiarists who dress up old errors with new tinsel. It does not make any difference whether they flock to the banners of social revolution, whether they are guided by a false concept of the world and of life, or whether they are possessed by the superstition of a race and blood cult."

2) The day after his election as Pope, the Berlin Morgenpost said: "The election of cardinal Pacelli is not accepted with favor in Germany because he was always opposed to Nazism and practically determined the policies of the Vatican under his predecessor."

3) Of the forty-four speeches which Pius XII had made on German soil while serving as papal nuncio between 1917 and 1929, at least forty contained attacks on Nazism or condemnations of Hitler’s doctrines. And the 1937 encyclical letter of Pope Pius XI, Mit Brennender Sorge -- which stridently condemned the Nazi regime and urged resistance against its racist and statist principles -- was written by none other than the papal secretary of state, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, who in less than two years would become Pope Pius XII.

4) While the U.S., Great Britain, and other countries often refused to allow Jewish refugees to immigrate during the war, the Vatican was issuing tens of thousands of false documents to allow Jews to pass secretly as Christians so they could escape the Nazis.

5) On September 2 7, 1943, one of the Nazi commanders demanded of the Jewish community in Rome payment of one hundred pounds of gold within thirty-six hours or three hundred Jews would be taken prisoner. When the Jewish Community Council was only able to gather only seventy pounds of gold, they turned to the Vatican for help -- and the shortfall was supplied directly from the Vatican treasury.

6) As is recorded by historian Joseph Lichten, "The Pope spoke out strongly in their defense with the first mass arrests of Jews in 1943, and L’Osservatore Romano carried an article protesting the internment of Jews and the confiscation of their property. The Fascist press came to call the Vatican paper ‘a mouthpiece of the Jews.’ "

7) Thousands of Jews were sheltered in chuches, basilicas, monastaries, the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo, and in the vatican City itself -- on orders of Pope Pius XII.

The Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Isaac Herzog, sent the Pope a personal message of thanks on February 28, 1944, in which he said: "The people of Israel will never forget what His Holiness and his illustrious delegates, inspired by the eternal principles of religion which form the very foundations of true civilization, are doing for us unfortunate brothers and sisters in the most tragic hour of our history, which is living proof of divine Providence in this world."

9) "We share the grief of the world over the death of His Holiness Pius XII. . . . During the ten years of Nazi terror, when our people passed through the horrors of martyrdom, the Pope raised his voice to condemn the persecutors and to commiserate with their victims" -- Golda Meir, 1958.

10) "Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty." -- Albert Einstein

11) "If the Pope in his Christmas message had intended to condemn Hitler's system, he could not have done it more effectively than by describing the 'moral order' which must govern human society." (NY Times editorial, December 25, 1940)

12) "The voice of Pius XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness enveloping Europe this Christmas." (NY Times editorial, December 25, 1941)

13) "This Christmas more than ever he [Pius XII] is a lonely voice crying out of the silence of a continent." (NY Times editorial, December 25, 1942)

14) Following the war, the World Jewish COngress in 1945 gave the Vatican a gift of $20,000 for the material and moral support and assistance given the Jews of Rome by the Vatican.

15) Sir Martin Gilbert, the noted European historian, said that the test for Pius "was when the Gestapo came to Rome in 1943 to round up the Jews." Gilbert writes, "And the Catholic Church, on his direct authority, immediately dispersed as many Jews as they could."

16) Vatican Radio regularly broadcast denunciations of Nazi attrocities during WWII -- including those committed against the Jews.

And I'll end with this one

17) "Of all the incendiary literary bombs manufactured in Moscow…and thrown with such lighthearted recklessness into the unity of Allied nations, none is likely to do greater damage than Izvestia's unjust and intemperate attack upon the Vatican as 'pro-Fascist.'" (NY Times editorial, February 4, 1944)

Given the Communist origins of the lies about Pope Pius XII and the silence of the Catholic Church, I'm not surprised that you embrace them whole-heartedly. Perhaps such ignorance and bigotry is acceptable at your exit from the Jersey Turnpike, but rest assured that it is not in the rest of America.

3 Anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable bigotry

4 I rebutt you with the following BBC news excerpt from 16 March 98:

The Vatican has apologised to Jews on behalf of the entire Roman Catholic community, for failing to speak out against the Nazi holocaust during World War Two.

In his letter accompanying the apology, the Pope said the holocaust remained an indelible stain on the 20th century.

Sounded like an admission of guilt to me you fucking religious asshat. The curch's official position was to say and do nothing and that has been proven beyond a doubt. What individuals did as versus the ORGINIZATION is a different matter you stupid clown. I am critical of the US Government's inaction too, but you're too pent up with the religious bullshit to notice.

No wonder the only state with an worse education record is Mississippi. Moronic fuckwaffle conservatard chickenshit chickenhawk.

5 Actually, the BBC got it wrong in that report. Indeed, the document in question, "We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah", makes great efforts tod ocument the efforts of teh CHurch to act against the Nazis and the Holocaust. While contrition is express for teh failure of the Church to do more, it hardly constitutes an admission that the Church remained silent.

Might i suggest you read the document itself (the primary source) rather than the BBC article (a secondary source)?

And please quit abusing my hospitality here by engaging in profane abusive rants -- especially if it is your intention to remain a testicularly-deficient coward who cannot even leave valid contact information.

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