Joseph Ratzinger is he sinister....

[MattBackHome]

You should read up on Clemens August Graf von Galen, interesting man. He shows the church was not silent as some suggest.

However, it would not have been very smart to draw untoward attention to your actions (saving Jews lives) by openly attacking the Nazi and raising their ire. No, the sensible way was to work though the many partisan underground groups to smuggle people to safety.

Read what the Jews say about the Pope/Church during those times. They give a more balanced view of what was really going on rather than some anti-catholic bigoted rhetoric.

Suggesting they were complicit is like suggesting England under Chamberlain was complicit in appeasing the Nazis in the late 30's.

Yeah, I know all about von Galen - did lots of admirable things, and all-round good egg.

And I agree about Chamberlain too.