Pie XII

Expert supports Israeli ambassador's praise for Pius XII :: Catholic News Agency (CNA) Rome, Italy, Jun 28, 2011 / 06:26 am ( CNA ) .- An expert on Pope Pius XII expressed support for an Israeli ambassador who faces controversy after publicly praising the World War II pontiff for helping save Jews during the Holocaust. Israeli ambassador to the Vatican Mordechai Lewy said on June 27 that his positive comments about late Pope were historically “premature,” after he was criticized by Jewish groups. However, author William Doino commended the ambassador for “opening up healthy and productive discussion” and supports his stance in favor of Pope Pius XII– who is often accused of turning a blind eye to the Holocaust. Ambassador Lewy sparked the debate at a June 23 ceremony honoring World War II Italian priest Fr. Gaetano Piccini, when he recalled how convents and monasteries opened their doors to save Jews after the Nazis persecuted Rome's Ghetto in 1943.

Israeli envoy voices rare praise of wartime Pope | Reuters ROME (Reuters) - A leading Israeli official has praised Pope Pius XII for saving Jews during the Nazi occupation of Rome, a surprise twist in a long-standing controversy over the pontiff's wartime role. The comments by Mordechay Lewy, the Israeli ambassador to the Vatican, were some of the warmest ever made by a Jewish official about Pius. Most have been very critical of his record. ROME | Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:28pm EDT In an indication of just how sensitive the subject of Pius is among Jews, Lewy was quickly assailed by a group of Holocaust survivors.

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"They appear to give compelling proof that will testify to Pius's attitude towards the Jews," said William Doino, an authority on Pius XII. "Given the dangers then existing and the reluctance of the Church to put such matters in writing, these letters are remarkable. They establish beyond question that Pius XII took a direct, personal interest in helping Jews [and] did so very early on in the war. 'Hitler's Pope' tried to help Jews, say documents - Telegraph

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About the Author One of the most important manifestations of the Catholic resistance against the Nazis was the effort to give assistance to the Jews, since persecution of Jews involved for the Church a question of principle-the inviolability of human life. (The matter presented itself differently for the Communists, who, mobilizing all their energies for the total struggle against the immediate enemy, were only moderately interested in the question of principle. Taken individually, they did many wonderful things: but human life in se remained for them a secondary issue.) Behind this question of principle, however, lay the whole complex problem of the attitude of the Catholic Church towards Judaism. Leaving out the Soviet Union, nearly 80 per cent of the European territory invaded by Germany was under the jurisdiction of the Church of Rome. The Vatican and the Jewish Question:<br/><em>The Record of the H

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John Cornwel "regrets" Devil's advocates were supposed to be fair-minded, and in the past Mr Cornwell, a prolific writer on Catholic matters, has at times been anything but. As he admits, “Hitler's Pope” (1999), his biography of Pope Pius XII, lacked balance. “I would now argue,” he says, “in the light of the debates and evidence following ‘Hitler's Pope', that Pius XII had so little scope of action that it is impossible to judge the motives for his silence during the war, while Rome was under the heel of Mussolini and later occupied by the Germans.”

Impossible d’accepter de se nommer et d’être appelé catholique si cela signifie « complice de la Shoah ». Si la croix est un loup-garou, prompte à se changer à tout moment en croix gammée, pour l’avoir déjà fait. L’Église catholique en tant que telle ne pouvait pas se défendre devant les tribunaux contre cet assassinat de son image, comme l’aurait fait une autre institution, ou un particulier. Elle était placée dans une incapacité de fait, une obligation de ne pas porter plainte, pour ne pas s’aventurer dans un double piège : passer pour répressive de la liberté d’expression, et faire exploser l’audience de ses diffamateurs en les érigeant en adversaires. Ce n’était pas à elle de se battre de façon ouverte. Pie XII: L’honneur des catholiques

Il est spécialisé dans l'histoire du catholicisme. Il fait notamment partie de la commission d'historiens sur Pie XII mise en place par le mémorial Yad Vashem de Jérusalem. Le prédécesseur de Benoît XVI a été élevé samedi au rang de "vénérable" par la Vatican. Le très controversé Pie XII également, malgré les protestations de la communauté juive. "Face à Hitler, Pie XII a préféré l'action souterraine au choc f

Le Pape Pie XII en 1945 Claude Lanzmann, Robert Badinter, Gilles Bernheim, aujourd’hui grand rabbin de France, et Richard Pasquier, aujourd’hui président du CRIF, signèrent ensemble en 2002 une protestation contre l’affiche anti-Pie XII d’un film de Costa-Gavras. Quatre ans après, leur intervention était rappelée par Laurent Dispot dans le texte ci-dessous publié en janvier 2006 dans La Règle du Jeu n°30, et dédié aujourd’hui à la mémoire du père Blet, décédé en novembre 2009. Laurent Dispot, Pie XII : Claude Lanzmann, Robert Badinter, Gill

Pie XII, pape bavard - Causeur.fr Le pape Pie XII en 1945. Notre époque porte sur l’histoire un regard insensible. Elle considère le passé non pas tel qu’il a été, mais tel qu’elle voudrait qu’il fût. Elle sermonne les morts, leur dicte une conduite, ne rechigne pas à l’anachronisme pour les juger au nom de principes qu’elle ne s’applique jamais à elle-même, mais qu’elle leur demande rétroactivement de respecter. Notre époque n’est pas historienne : elle est vindicative.