This Papal Visit Is a Good Time to Reprieve Pius Xii
Spectator, The; London › September 30, 2009
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[...] why, even so, didn't Pius XII speak out? Because at this juncture it would have been madness for the Pope to make any gesture that would further provoke Hitler.
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This Papal Visit Is a Good Time to Reprieve Pius Xii
Simon Caldwell says that the wartime Pope was no Nazi sympathiser: on the contrary, he was a thorn in Hitler's side and a protector of persecuted Jews
The Pope has done an impressive PR job this week, trying once and for all to scotch the suspicion that he and his Church are antiSemitic. 'Sadly, anti-Semitism continues to rear its ugly head in many p...See the full content of this document
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