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By: john.mcarthur

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Archbishop Temple broadcast through the World Service when news about what was happening to Jews in Hungary began to filter back:
“do your utmost to save from persecution, it may be from massacre, those who are now threatened as a result of German occupation…Help them to hide from their tormentors, help them, if possible, to escape. Do all you can to prevent the extermination of people whose only fault is the race from which they are born or the independence of their minds and constancy of their convictions”

Archbishop Temple addressed the House of Lords in March 1943 in which he referenced the massacre of Jews taking place, urging all means of action and condemned the procrastination of officialdom. He concluded:
“We at this moment have upon us a tremendous responsibility . We stand at the bar of history, of humanity, and of God”(see Wikipedia article Council for Christians and Jews for citations.)

It would be interesting to know who funds Gary Krupp’s wages/organization. The New York Times only says “Its board includes New York entrepreneurs and Wall Street managers, most of them Jewish.” Their historical work has been considered as being of no worth. He is an ex-salesman who was awared a papal knighthood, just like Rupert Murdoch, but that doesn’t make him an historian. (See the wikipedia article “Pave the Way Foundation”)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/nyregion/08pius.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 
Neither is Rychlak and co who are apologists and are prone to one one-sided expositions lacking in balance. That’s a pity since Rychlak in particular could make a far more convincing case for Pius XII by being honest about the anti-Judaism/religious anti-Semitism of the Church that wasn’t dealt with in a significant way until the coming of Pope John XXIII. (See the wikipedia article La Civiltà Cattolica). 

Pius XII has taken the wrap for the institutional failings of the Church through the previous centuries that rendered the Church incapable of responding effectively, by way of pastoral advice, as soon as the Nazi  movement came to the forefront. 

Hitler cast up to Cardinal Faulhaber in the mid 1930’s that what the Nazis were doing  to the Jews was only the same as the Church had previously done and the Cardinal had no answer since Hitler was for once telling the truth.
(see Cardinal Faulhaber Wikipedia article for citations)

Instead of rejecting Nazism completely they signed a Concordat with the Nazis in 1933 at a time when Jews were already subject to persecution.  Pius XI/XII didn’t like Hitler or the Nazi’s but I think the weight of past history must have been a heavy load when deciding how to respond to them. By the time the reality of Nazi evil was being played out it was too late.


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