Did the catholics speak out against the nazis [Im sure jesus would have]?

Answer 1

They certainly did. They were thrown into the camps as well for helping to harbour Jews and speaking out against what was happening. Jesus spoke against the Romans and the corrupt Rabbis, and He was persecuted as well.

Answer 2

During WW2 the tiny state of Vatican City in Rome was completely surrounded by the Italian army controlled by the dictator Benito Mussolini who was the ally of Adolf Hitler. These two were the most powerfull Nazis of that time.

The Catholic Church was in no position to speak out against them.

I don't remember the details but I believe the Pope of the time did make a critical statement about them and Hitler's reply was "How many Divisions does he have in his army ?"
Meaning of course that the Nazi armies were so powerfull that they had no fear of defeat from Rome.
The present Pope has acknowledged that there has not been sufficient adverse comment from the Catholic Church and has made an attempt to apologise to the Jews.

Answer 3

Yes.

No serious scholar contests the evidence that Pius XII took direct and indirect measures to save Jews from the Nazi death machine.

At the start of World War II, Pope Pius XII’s first encyclical was so anti-Hitler that the Royal Air Force and the French air force dropped 88,000 copies of it over Germany. Here is a link to the Summi Pontificatus: Encyclical of Pope Pius XII on the Unity of Human Society, October 20, 1939: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_20101939_summi-pontificatus_en.html

Unfortunately the Soviet Union and others had been trying to convince the world that the Catholic Church was pro-Nazi since the death of Pope Pius in 1958. Here are some sources:
+ The KGB made corrupting the Church a priority: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTUzYmJhMGQ5Y2UxOWUzNDUyNWUwODJiOTEzYjY4NzI=
+ The KGB campaign against Pius XII: http://www.the-tidings.com/2007/021607/difference.htm
+ Pius XII and the Jews: http://web.archive.org/web/20010919100700/http://www.weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_6_23_01/dalin_bkart_6_23_01.asp
+ http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/a/ww2jews.html

See also "The Myth of Hitler’s Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews From the Nazis" by David G. Dalin which has compiled further overwhelming proof of Pope Pius Xii"s friendship for the Jews beginning long before he became pope.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

No objective scholar can seriously deny that Pius XII was at least sympathetic to the ideals of the Nazi's and other Catholic mass murderers such as Mussolini and Franco, at worst, had an active hand in their collaboration.

In relation to Hitler, even the Catholic Church cannot deny that Pope Pius was for many years the head of the Catholic Church in Germany and indeed was stationed in Munich, having direct contact with Hitler before becoming Pope. The former housekeeper of Pacelli (Pius) even testified that Hitler religiously attended the Bishops residence on regular visits.

One particular historic event, which cannot be denied even by the most persuasive of Catholic apologists is the event in 1943 of the clearing of the Jewish ghetto of over 1,000 souls next to Vatican City.

So sensitive were the Germans to such a direct "cleansing" right next door to the home of Pope Pius, that the German ambassador is recorded as pleading on behalf of Adolf Hitler for the Pope to make some kind of negative comment- proving he was against the deportation.

It is recorded as the most extraordinary diplomatic gesture of World War II- a free hit, whereby the Pope could have said anything he wanted with full diplomatic knowledge that Hitler himself had permitted a response. Instead, the pontiff said nothing and all but a dozen were murdered.

To this very day 2007, the Vatican refuses to comment on this crime against humanity within the shadow of St Peter.s To this day, no pontiff has ever apologised to the less than 15 survivors, nor even shown the human decency to meet them.

The stock standard answer to such irrefutable proof is to deny- deny it ever happened. In fact some audacious Catholic PR merchants and apologists even dare to publish quotes to various articles claimining the opposite- that incredibly they claim Pius was sympathetic to Jews and against Hitler!

Unfortunately, most good people see these alleged "educated" answers and think they must be true.

See: The Almanac of Evil 20th Century for a more detailed view:
http://one-faith-of-god.org/final_testament/end_of_darkness/evil/evil_0200.htm

Answer 5

Jesus would have been gassed, cos he was Jewish...

Many Catholics did speak out against the Nazis, however, at the same time, several high level catholics at the Vatican did bless them...

Answer 6

The total usually given for the death camps is 13 million. Of this 6 million were jews. Most of the rest were slavs from eastern europe. Most of these would have been Orthodox or Catholic.

Of course any Jews that had converted, or their parents or grandparents, would have been counted as Jews. So, for example, St Theresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein) would be sent to the camps because she was racially Jewish, though her religion was Catholic

Answer 7

They did, but they were very cautious in doing so. Keep in mind that it is biblical for people of faith to keep a low profile during times of persecution. Sometimes, it is more important for the Church heiarchy to survive so the Church will survive...than to be martyred.

'Catholicism for Dummies' had a few paragraphs devoted to Catholicism during World War II.

Answer 8

Yes, this Webb site gives details of what happened to them http://www.catholictradition.org/Priests/dachau.htm