RESPONSE TO ACCUSATIONS AGAINST PIUS XII
Myth vs Historical Fact Fr Pierre Blet, S.J. Text from: L’Osservatore Romano, Weekly Edition in English, v31, n17(1539), 29 April 1998.[orginally published in Italian in the 21 March 1998 issue of La Civiltà Cattolica.] When he died on 9 October 1958, Pius XII was the object of unanimous tributes of admiration and gratitude: “The world”, President Eisenhower declared, […]
The Vatican & the Holocaust: 860,000 Lives Saved – The Truth About Pius XII & the Jews
Robert A. Graham, S.J. Downloaded from Jewish Virtual Library https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/860-000-lives-saved-the-truth-about-pius-xii-and-the-jews – January 9, 2019 People often ask: why did Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, not speak out more forcefully against Hitler? Historian Fr Dermot Fenlon of the Birmingham Oratory looks at the facts and sets the record straight. The answer is recounted by a former inmate […]
The Good Samaritan: Jewish Praise for Pope Pius XII
Dimitri Cavalli Inside the Vatican has given considerable space in its pages to coverage of the fierce debate over the wartime role of Pope Pius XII and his alleged “silence” in the face of the Nazi persecution of the Jews (see particularly our June 1997 and our October 1999 issues). We will continue to do so […]
Pius XII did act
The real question is, therefore, not what did the Pope say, but what did the Pope do? Actions speak louder than words. Papal policy in Nazi Europe was directed with an eye to local conditions. Hitler described himself as “a complete pagan”, and he regarded the Catholic Church as his greatest enemy, which he would […]
Pius XII did speak out
As a papal envoy to Germany from 1917 to 1929, Vatican Secretary of State in the 1930’s, and Pope during World War II, Pius XII established a clear record of supporting the Jewish people against the Nazis. Lapide wrote: “Of the 44 speeches which the Nuncio Pacelli had made on German soil between 1917 and 1929, […]
Pius XII and the Jews During World War II.
Falsely Accused of Having Remained Silent During the Holocaust, Pope Pius XII Did More than any other Human Being to Save Jews. False accusations During and after World War II, and again upon his death in 1958, Pope Pius XII was praised by secular and Jewish leaders for his efforts to save Jews from the Nazi-induced […]
What was Pope Pius XII’s role in saving the Jews in World War II?
To begin to understand Pius XII’s actions during World War II, we must remember the world in which he lived. Hitler had assumed control of Germany in 1933. In July of that same year, he began not only persecuting Jews but also Christians. He infiltrated the German Evangelical Federation (the Lutheran Church), removing leaders who […]
The Birth of the “Black Legend” of Pius XII
by Giovanni Sale The “black legend” of a pope who was a friend of Hitler and a supporter of totalitarian regimes was not born, as is often maintained, in Jewish circles, in response to the presumed silence of Pius XII on the Holocaust, but in the communist world, in the period during which, shortly before […]
Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII (born March 2, 1876; died October 9, 1958) was pope from 1939 until 1958. He was born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli. During and after the war there was much praise given to Pope Pius XII by the Jewish leaders of that day. Vatican Says all archives on Holocaust have been Opened […]
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
Ever since Rolf Hochhuth’s, “The Deputy”. made its appearance in 1963, it has been an unshakable axiom of popular mythology that Pope Pius XII was, if not actually a crypto-Nazi, at least guilty of criminal cowardice and insensitivity in the face of the Holocaust. It is accepted as a truism that the Pope’s failure to […]