Pope Pius XII
(Eugenio Pacelli 1876 - 1958)
(a copy of http://www.piusxii.info/ from 20071204)
(The Pope who saved the Jews from the Nazis.)
"Pius XII? That is the only human being who has always contradicted me and who has never obeyed me."
Adolf Hitler (From Hans Jansen, THE SILENT POPE? [2000])
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"He was a great pope."
Pope John Paul II (March 21, 1998)
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CONTRARY TO THE FABRICATIONS OF ROLF HOCHHUTH, A PLAYWRIGHT WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE HITLER YOUTH, AND JOHN CORNWELL, A JOURNALIST WHO IS "ROLF HOCHHUTH REDIVIVUS" IN HIS CRITICISM OF POPE PIUS XII DURING WORLD WAR II, THERE ARE THE FOLLOWING HISTORICAL TESTIMONIES EMPHASIZING THE TRUTH OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THAT PERIOD OF HISTORY:
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"No Christmas sermon reaches a larger congregation than the message Pope Pius XII addresses to a war-torn world at this season. This Christmas more than ever he is a lonely voice crying out of the silence of a continent."
THE NEW YORK TIMES, December 25, 1942
See main link: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
Refer comments and questions to:
Rev. Vincent A. Lapomarda, S. J.
Copyright © 2000-2001.
Links: Pope Pius XII
( RecNum_1438.html (His record against the Nazis) is a copy of Urbi et Orbi Communications Magazine, from October 1999, at http:///www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=1438 which was however recently removed from catholicculture.org .... An archived copy is at http://web.archive.org/web/20051126223815/www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=1438 The original url which RecNum_1438.html replaces inside this webpage was http://www.petersnet.net/research/retrieve.cfm?RecNum=1438 but RecNum=1438 was also there removed from petersnet.net ... An archived copy is at http://web.archive.org/web/20071204112901/http://www.petersnet.net/research/retrieve.cfm?RecNum=1438 )