2006-08-24 10:20:16 · 17 answers · asked by lonly_planet1976 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Pope took nearly 45 years to admit that the vatican did nothing
2006-08-24 10:28:04 · update #1
Are you serious? You know no history.
For example, in 1945 the world jewish counsel publicly thanked the pope for saving as many Jews as he did during the war, personally presented by Dr. Leon Kubowitzky. Later the nation of Israel named a national forrest after the pope. So get your facts straight.
2006-08-24 10:24:01 · answer #1 · answered by 1,1,2,3,3,4, 5,5,6,6,6, 8,8,8,10 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Probably the same reason Roosevelt was. Roosevelt turned away a ship filled with thousands of Jews trying to escape Hitler. The Jews sought asylum and when they didn't find it, moved on to another country and another. Canada turned them away. USA ( ie Roosevelt) turned them away. They ended up sailing back to their home in Germany and were put in camps right away. Very few survived.
On another note, the Vatican has a picture that hangs to this day of a massacre called St. Bartholomew's Day. The picture that hangs has a caption: Pontifex Coligny necem probat, which means, The Pope approves of Coligny's Death. As a result of this massacre, one hundred thousand protestants were massacred all over France. The man who brought word of the massacre to Rome was given 1000 crowns by the cardinal of Lorraine.
2006-08-24 10:46:21 · answer #2 · answered by sunny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has anyone ever thought that maybe it was part of God's eternal plan? Without WWII the Jews in Europe would have never fled to their promised land as prophesied in Ezekiel chpt 37 the resuscitation of a nation which came to be I think on May 14, 1945 or sometime close to then. Now whether the pope should have tried to prevent or not is irrevelant, we should rest in the fact that God is in control.
2006-08-24 10:35:18 · answer #3 · answered by autoboy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure why... it may be he was trying hard to think of a way to save some silently ...who knows? Maybe he hated the jews. Just him and God now. But I agree.. it is amazing that he was silent. Still..it isn't exactly unusual for people nowadays even to hate jews.. for no reason . I
My great grandmother hated jews..used to make all kinds of ridiculous statements concerning them. Her parents took her out of Grmany when she was very young , just before the war actually broke out. It is possible ..that they were themselves jews..and were so fearful of losing their lives to Hitlers SS that they pretended to hate jews.. and of course it got carried way too far. People are people.. always making terrible mistakes. But anyway.. my great grandmother is deceased now..so it is moot.
Another question you could ask is.. why are Christians silent about the number of babies slaughtered by abortion every year? Or, why are Christians silent about their own particular monsters within their own churches..but rage on and on about the Catholic Church.. it is all a big mess. Or, ask, why are Christians silent when they see their children in schools being taught how to have sex either heterosexually or homosexually?
There are plenty of questions people need to ask of themselves and of others. It might make us all begin to care again about what is going on all around us all over this planet.
2006-08-24 10:38:06 · answer #4 · answered by BelieverinGod 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The pope at the time, Pope Pius XII, was not silent during WW II and the Holocaust. In fact he was publicly thanked after the war for saving hundreds of thousands of Jews even giving them safety in convents and monasteries all over Rome. He also issued a letter in German that was the cause of having many priests arrested calling for an end to racist attitudes.
The idea that he was silent comes from a fictional play, "The Deputy," which has no historical foundation.
2006-08-24 10:25:35 · answer #5 · answered by jakejr6 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
IF you're talking about Pope John Paul, what exacly do you think speeking up would have done? Do you believe that a lowly soldier ( of which there were thousands ) would have changed Hitler's anti-Semetic policy? And how do you know that some pope didn't say anything? Did you ask him personally?
2006-08-24 10:23:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Check out the attached about a plot by the Pope, with the Nazis. Food for thought!
2006-08-24 10:29:41 · answer #7 · answered by LaRue 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You'll have to ask the chief rabbi of Rome who converted to Catholicism after the war because of the Pius' actions. Goggle it.
I am more curious why the international Left and their head in Moscow were silent and why they are silent now when the president of Iran calls for the extermination of Israel.
2006-08-24 10:27:03 · answer #8 · answered by wehwalt 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because he was in on the plan....for one, he THOUGHT Hitler was promoting Christianity. Secondly, if the Jews are exterminated, that makes Christianity the biggest religion on earth - so for power. Also for wealth - where do you think all that confiscated money and property went to? The Vatican has thousands of pieces of Nazi-stolen loot.
The bastards...
2006-08-24 10:24:23 · answer #9 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Because the Pope is the head of the Anti Christ organization. Catholics who seek the truth should flee Babylon before its too late.
2006-08-24 10:27:57 · answer #10 · answered by Damian 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋