The Fear to Act on Behalf of the Jews: Making the Situation Worse – Really? Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church, and the cohorts of church apologists today, often argued that the pope had to remain silent about the mass extermination of Jews during the Second...
The Weapon the Church Didn’t Use:The Threat of Excommunication Papal apologists often dismiss excommunication as a powerful tool. Yet, the Catholic Church could have used it during the Holocaust to persuade the faithful from refraining to participate in any way in...
Defining “Non-Aryan”: Cutting Through the Fog For the layman, sometimes it’s hard to know what things actually mean. After all, one cannot be an expert on everything, so we must rely on others whom we trust. The problem of course is that even when we read information...
The Foundation of Antisemitism: We Want to Kill Too Efraim Zuroff is the Director of the Israel office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. I met him last March in his Jerusalem office and we discussed his ongoing efforts to bring to justice the perpetrators of atrocities...
Pius XII to Roosevelt: Please Spare Us The Telegraph in the UK and other newspapers recently reported about a letter written by Pope Pius XII to President Roosevelt. In this letter, dated August 30, 1943, the pope begged President Roosevelt to spare Rome from Allied...
Did Pope Pius XII Save the Jews of Rome? Using Tactical Lies A recent article on Zenit, written by Gary Krupp from Pave the Way Foundation, describes how Pope Pius XII’s supposed strategy of “silence” saved thousands of Roman Jews who would have otherwise perished at...
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