Pius XII did help the Jews -Times Online. For Berlin, Pius XII Was a Subversive. Radio Operator´s Experience of Spreading Papal Christmas Message | 1467 hits PARIS, MAY 14, 2002 (Zenit.org). -Protestant pastor Francois de Beaulieu revealed to the French weekly "Reforme" the experience he endured in 1942 as a radio operator secretly spreading Pius XII´s famous Christmas radio message against Nazism.
The news coincides with the French cinemas´ exhibition of Constantin Costa-Gavras´ controversial film "Amen," concerned with Pius XII´s alleged silence in face of Nazism. Despite his surname, Francois de Beaulieu is a German, descendent of a Huguenotic family of Rheims, which emigrated to Germany in the 17th century. Beaulieu was arrested as he left the Wehrmacht headquarters with a German translation of Pius XII´s 1942 radio Christmas Message, a document that was to be destroyed, not preserved. Beaulieu said that before his arrest, he succeeded in copying and dispersing the message in Berlin, leaving an impression on his friends.
"The Pope could not do much more. The Unsilent Pope. 30Days - The Holy Father orders… The entrance to the convent of the Santi Quattro Coronati «Ours wants only to be a small testimony about Pope Pius XII. Without any pretension, for goodness sake. Certainly, the amount of writings about the presumed indifference of the Pontiff and his “silences” about the Jews in the years of Nazi Fascism, pains us deeply. And so it seemed useful to make known what happened here among us more than sixty years ago». “Here among us” is the cloistered convent of the Augustinians, part of the millenary Basilica of the Santi Quattro Coronati, on the slopes of the Coelian Hill in Rome. Pius XII in Piazza San Giovanni, 13 August 1943, after the bombings of the San Giovanni quarter in Rome «Having come to this month of November we must be ready to render services of charity in a totally unexpected manner», writes the anonymous chronicler at the end of 1943. German tanks on the streets of the center of Rome in September 1943.
Michel Riquet, 94, French Jesuit Priest Active in Resistance - B. The Rev. Michel Riquet, a Jesuit priest and former Resistance fighter who became the most popular preacher of postwar Paris as well as a widely read author, died there on Friday. He was 94. A native of Paris and a doctor of theology, Father Riquet defied the Vichy regime, which ruled France after the German occupation in World War II. He helped more than 500 Allied pilots to escape from France, leading to his arrest by the Gestapo in January 1944.
He was held in the Mauthausen and Dachau concentration camps and was freed by Allied soldiers in the waning days of the war in May 1945. So successful was his Sunday message to growing throngs that he was appointed predicateur, or preacher, at Notre Dame, a position he held for 10 years. He took up the cudgels against the anti-clericalism unleashed by the political left at the war's end. In his books, Father Riquet advised Christians on how to spiritually face their everyday concerns in a changing world. JEWISH HISTORIAN PRAISES PIUS XII'S WARTIME CONDUCT. Michael Tagliacozzo Works at a Center for Holocaust Studies VATICAN CITY, (ZENIT.org).- The closed-door meeting of the Judeo-Christian Historical Commission, which has been meeting in Rome since Monday 23, ends today.
The commission was established last October by Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, president of the Committee for Religious Relations with Jews, to examine the 11 volumes of archives documents relating to the Holy See's activities during the Second World War. In recent years Pius XII and the Holy See have been accused of not doing enough to save Jews persecuted by the Nazis. To shed light on the Pope's role in this part of the war, ZENIT interviewed Jewish historian Michael Tagliacozzo, responsible for the Beth Lohame Haghettaot (Center of Studies on the Shoah and Resistance) in Italy. Beth Lohame Haghettaot in western Galilee in Israel is one of the world's largest museums and centers of documentation on the Holocaust.
--Tagliacozzo: I know that many criticize Pope Pacelli. Papal Address on 75th Anniversary of Vatican Radio. "A Choir of Voices" | 1155 hits VATICAN CITY, MARCH 21, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered March 3 when visiting the headquarters of Vatican Radio for its 75th anniversary. Your Eminence, Venerable Brothers in the Episcopate and in the Priesthood, Dear Brothers and Sisters, I willingly visit you at your fine headquarters in the Palazzo Pio, which the Servant of God Paul VI wished to make available to Vatican Radio. I offer you all a cordial greeting and I thank you for your welcome. I greet in particular the superior general of the Society of Jesus, Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, and I thank him for the service which, since the origins of Vatican Radio, the Jesuits have rendered to the Holy See, faithful to the Ignatian charism of total dedication to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff.
I greet Father Federico Lombardi, the current general director. . © Copyright 2006 -- Libreria Editrice Vaticana [adapted] Saving jews on behalf of Pius XII. POPE IS EMPHATIC ABOUT JUST PEACE; His Stress on 'Indispensable. Newly Discovered Documents Prove Pope Pius XII was a Friend. Pave the Way Foundation (PTWF), a non-sectarian organization whose mission is to identify and eliminate non-theological obstacles between religions, announced the discovery of new documents which prove, by his actions, that Pope Pius XII was in reality a friend of the Jewish people before, during and after World War II. New documents discovered in the Vatican Secret Archives, by Dr. Michael Hesemann,* reveal that Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli, future Pius XII, intervened in 1917, through the German government, to assure the Jews of Palestine that they would be protected from any harm from the Ottoman Turks.
Dr. Hesemann further stated that Pacelli also directly intervened with the World Zionist Organization representative Nachum Sokolov, and used his influence to arrange for Mr. Sokolov to meet directly with the Benedict XV in 1917 to discuss a Jewish homeland in . In 1926, Pacelli also encouraged Catholics in to join the Committee Pro Palestina, which supported Jewish settlements in . Mr.