RE: Abortion-Killing: The Silent Genocide: 2 Billion Deaths Victims Worldwide.
July 11, 2023 at 12:41 pm
(July 11, 2023 at 11:39 am)Nishant Xavier Wrote: the Catholic Church saved nearly 1 MN Jews during the Holocaust; Lapide puts the number at 860,000 - Jewish Lives Saved I.e. - by the Catholic Church under Pope Ven. Pius XII in the Nazi Period.
That is off-topic, so you are trolling.
When it comes to Pope's supposed help with the Jews it was pathetic. He did not do anything when Jews from Rome were eradicated. Pope's silence during ww2 was deadly. He should have forbidden Catholics to kill Jews since Germans were Catholics, but he didn't. There is a Costa-Gavras movie called Amen (2002) based on real events where some people were some Nazi attempted to notify Pope Pius XII about the gassings but is appalled by the lack of response he gets from the Catholic hierarchy. Just a vague condemnation of Hitler and Nazi Germany.
There is even a scene when he arrives and the Germans are taking control of Rome and begin rounding up the Italian Jews to be sent to the death camps. He begs the Pope to force the Germans to stop the deportation by appearing at the train station in person but the Pope refuses.
Or read this part from a book called "God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican" that I especially find bone-chilling
Quote:The Vatican faced a unique challenge in Croatia since priests partly ran the murder machinery. Sarajevo’s Bishop Ivan Sarić—later dubbed the “Hangman of the Serbs”—told the faithful that the elimination of Jews was a “renewal of human dignity.” Catholic priests served in Pavelić’s private bodyguard. A Franciscan monk, Miroslav Filipović-Majstorović, earned the moniker the “Devil of Jasenovac,” a concentration camp where forty thousand Jews and Serbs were slaughtered. Three Franciscan monks—also Ustašan officers—served as the Devil’s deputies. Father Bozidas Bralo, Sarajevo’s chief of security, was responsible for enforcing the country’s anti-Semitic legislation. And a popular priest, Father Dyonisy Juricev, wrote in a leading newspaper that it was no longer a sin to kill Serbs or Jews so long as they were at least seven years old. The role played by clerics in the killings helped absolve ordinary Catholics from being afflicted by a troubled conscience.
So did the pope at least condemn Bishop Ivan Sarić? Or maybe excommunicated him? Hell, no. Pope even gave him a nice castle in Spain to live in so that people seeking justice don't bother him.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"