Yes.
The Catholic Church supported Germany. The Current Pope was a Nazi.
2007-07-22 09:52:20
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answered by Anonymous
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Pope Pius XII - during the German occupation of Rome he organised that Italian Jews would be concealed in convents and monasteries. Up to 1,000 Jews were even concealed at the Pope's Summer Residence Castel Gandolfo.
Sára Salkaházi - a Hungarian Roman Catholic Sister who sheltered an estimated 100 Jews in Budapest.
Hugh O'Flaherty - an Irish Catholic priest who saved about 4,000 Allied soldiers and Jews; known as the "Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican". Retold in the film The Scarlet and the Black.
2007-07-22 17:08:00
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answered by Giggly Giraffe 7
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No! Pope Pius XII spoke out against the Nazis on many occasions. Albert Einstein said the following: "Only the church stood squarely across the opath of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest or enthusiasm for the Catholic church before but not I feel a great affection and admiration because the church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intelligence, truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly."
2007-07-22 18:23:48
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answered by Barbara E 4
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Yes.
Check out this research:
Cornwell, like other scholars, made use of the Vatican archives to research the conduct of Eugenio Pacelli, both as Nuncio to Germany and as Pope. He explains how he began his book as a defense of Pius XII from claims that he could have done more to prevent or mitigate the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews under Adolf Hitler, but that something unexpected happened along the way. "By the middle of 1997," he wrote, "nearing the end of my research, I found myself in a state I can only describe as moral shock. The material I had gathered, taking the more extensive view of Pacelli's life, amounted not to an exoneration but to a wider indictment." Cornwell, relying on exclusive access to Vatican and Jesuit archives, argues that through a 1933 Concordat with Hitler, his anti-Semitic tendencies early on, and his drive to promote papal absolutism inexorably led him to collaboration with fascist leaders. Thus, according to Cornwell, Pope Pius XII facilitated the dictator's rise and, ultimately, the Holocaust.
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2007-07-22 16:56:17
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answered by Anonymous
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The pope blessed Hitler's legions. The vatican has been persecuting and killing jews for many centuries and rewarding those who performed the deed for them. Aiding Hitler was just one in a very long line of rulers whom they supported because of their persecution of jews, heretics and pagans.
2007-07-22 16:56:13
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answered by han_ko_bicknese 3
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No. Please read what Rabbi David Dalin, a professor of history and political science, says:
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=18330
And what Jewish historian Michael Tagliacozzo says:
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=8546
Rabbi Dalin has also written a book called 'The Myth of Hitler's Pope: Pope Pius XII and His Secret War Against Nazi Germany'. You may be able to find at in your local public library.
http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Hitlers-Pope-Against-Germany/dp/0895260344
http://books.google.com/books?id=qAmKnonoAB0C
2007-07-22 17:02:28
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answered by Anonymous
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No.
2007-07-22 17:54:22
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answered by Danny H 6
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