RE: Damned Catholics
September 16, 2023 at 6:49 pm
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2023 at 6:49 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Letter sent by Jesuit priest to Holy See in 1942 confirms Vatican was well briefed on Nazi genocide programme. Letter details 6000 Jews/Poles gassed daily and refutes Vatican narrative it couldn’t verify reports of atrocities to condemn them.
Quote:As you know, the silence of Pius XII in the face of mass crimes of the Third Reich has long been the subject of heated discussions between the critics and defenders of Pope Eugenio Pacelli: his beatification process is also at stake, started in 1967 and highly controversial within the Catholic Church itself.
An important turning point occurred on March 2, 2020, with the long-awaited opening of the archives: today all the documents relating to the pontificate of Pius XII, which lasted from 1939 to 1958, are available. The availability of that vast material has obviously allowed scholars to intensify their work to better clarify the events relating to the behavior of the Pope.
At this point, however, there is no doubt that during the Second World War, while more and more detailed information arrived at the Vatican on the atrocities carried out by the Nazis, Pius XII preferred to keep silent, or at best to express his punishment in general terms.
https://www.corriere.it/cultura/23_sette...6594.shtml
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"