Abraham Foxman, Anti-Catholic Bigot Took on Mel Gibson for the Passion of the Christ Now He's Demanded of Benedict-Ratzinger to Halt Canonization of Pope Pius XII Who, according to Jewish Leaders, Did More for Them against Hitler Than Any Other European Leader at the Time
Abraham Foxman, anti-Catholic bigot par excellence, has now turned his prejudice against Pope Pius XII. You remember Foxman from his attack upon traditional Catholic Mel Gibson for producing the Biblically-based Passion of the Christ. Foxman, the anti-Catholic bigot who heads the B'nai B'rith's so-called Anti-Defamation League, has defamed Pope Piux XII by calling upon Benedict-Ratzinger to suspend canonization of Pope Pius XII, whom because he "turned a blind eye to the death of Jews during World War Two." [Sources: Reuters, Haaretz of Israel]
Really?! Foxman has schismatized himself from Jewish leaders like Golda Meir and Albert Einstein. What are the facts about Pope Pius XII?
Pope Pius XII saved 860,000 Jews directly or indirectly; in Rome alone during the Nazi occupation 4,447 Jews were hidden in over 155 Catholic houses, ecclesiastical institutions, parishes and schools -- more than all other rescue operations, including those run by Jews
Pope Pius XII was instrumental in protecting the Jews of Rome, even to the point of gathering 50 kilograms of gold to provide "indemnity" money to save them from imprisonment
Pope Pius XII ordered that all monasteries and convents be opened to hide Jewish refugees, and the Vatican coordinated a wide effort to obtain passports and other documents to help thousands of Jews to escape
Pope Pius XII personally gave refuge to at least 3,000 at his own summer residence at Castel Gandolfo
At the end of World War II, the chief rabbi of Rome, Israel Zolli, converted to Catholicism and chose for his baptismal name, Eugenio, after the pontiff
the notorious Nazi official, Adolph Eichmann, in his Diary released on March 1, 2000, complains that the Vatican "vigorously protested the arrest of Jews, requesting the interruption of such action; to the contrary, the Pope would denounce it publicly"
Through the agency of Pope Pius XII 80% of the Jews in Italy were saved; to the contrary, 80% of the Jews in the northern countries were executed by the Nazis
When Pope Pius XII was elected Pope, the Berliner Morgenpost, a pro-Nazi newspaper, stated: "The election of Cardinal Pacelli is not of Germany's liking, as he has always been opposed to Nazism."
Following Pope Pius XII's 1942 Christmas radio message, the Gestapo wrote in a report: "the Pope has rejected the new National Socialist European Order. He has not attacked National Socialism directly, but he has severely criticized everything we believe.... He has spoken clearly in favor of the Jews"
In his lifetime, Pius XII received more praise and expressions of gratitude from the Jewish people than any other pope in history; in several churches in Rome there are Jewish plaques thanking the Church for saving Jewish lives
In 2001 New York Rabbi David Dalin has proposed that Pope Pius XII be proclaimed "Righteous Among the Nations," the highest award given by the state of Israel to persons outstanding in assisting persecuted Jews during World War II: "More than any other 20th century leader, Pius XII fulfilled this Talmudic tradition, when the fate of European Jewry was at stake. No other Pope had been so widely praised by Jews, and they were not mistaken. Their gratitutde, as well as that of the entire generation of holocaust survivors, testifies that Pius XII was, genuinely and profoundly, a righteous gentile.... Pius XII was not Hitler's pope, but the closest Jews had come to having a papal supporter, and at the moment when it mattered most."
Albert Einstein wrote a letter to Time magazine in December 1940 stating: "Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised, I now praise unreservedly."
Jeno Levai, who testified at the Eichmann Nazi War Crimes Trial, insisted: "The one person [Pope Pius XII] who did more than anyone else to halt the dreadful crime and alleviate its consequences, is today made the scapegoat for the failures of others"
Golda Meir, Israeli Prime Minister, stated when Pius XII died in 1958: "During the Nazi terror, when fearful martyrdom came to our people, the voice of the Pope was raised for its victims. The life of our times was enriched by a voice speaking out about great moral truths above the tumult of daily conflict. We mourn a great servant of peace."
Moshe Sharrett, former Foreign Affairs Minister and Prime Minister of Israel, after the Second World War went to see Pius XII "to thank the Catholic Church for what it did to save the Jews in all parts of the world."
A New York Times editorial of December 25, 1942, stated: "The voice of Pius XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness enveloping Europe this Christmas.... He is about the only ruler left on the continent of Europe who dares to raise his voice at all."
Rabbi Herzog of Jerusalem, as well as the Rabbis of the Italian, United States, Romanian, and Hungarian Jewish communities came to Rome or sent messages thanking Pope Pius XII for the way in which he mobilized the Church in their behalf.
It is another interesting fact that Foxman claims that he was a "holocaust survivor," but he does not mention that he survived the Nazis only because a Catholic family took him in and protected him. He has never made a public statement of gratitude to the Catholic family who saved his life.
While the Newchurch of Hypocrisy Continues to Protect Abortionists as It Does Criminal Presbyters.U.S. House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi Publicly Flagellates Her Pope Pelosi, a Pro-abortionist, Takes Her Whip to Benedict-Ratzinger Because He Dared to Suggest that Pro-abortion Politicians Might Want Voluntarily To Deprive Themselves of the Invalid Novus Ordo Cookie
You've got to love those New Catholic Church politicians, don't you? They call themselves "Catholic" when it gets them votes, but when it comes to actually being Catholic, they'll fight their pope to the death!
A case in point. Benedict-Ratzinger made some critical remarks at the beginning of his recent junket to Brazil about pro-abortion politicians. In answer to a press question, he avoided declaring them excommunicated ("all talk and no action") and even "fudged" the transcript of the press conference to play down the consequences. But he said that they might want voluntarily to deprive themselves of the invalid Novus Ordo cookie.
But Nancy Pelosi, the liberalist new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, was hopping mad. What right did her pope have to tell her that her pro-abortion stand was not Catholic? No "obedient" Catholic she, but one after the example of pro-abortionist Senators John Kerry and Ted Kennedy, she joined together with pro-abortionist Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat Representative, and sixteen others to attack her pope.
We are concerned with the pope's recent statement warning Catholic elected officials that they risk excommunication and would not receive communion for their pro-choice views. [The penalty of excommunication] offend[s] the very nature of the American experiment and do[es] a great disservice to the centuries of good work the Church has done.
Good Catholics, New Catholic Church is a Church of hypocrisy. We have a gutless wonder of a New pope who can't speak out clearly for Catholic positions on traditional morals, even when it involves the murder of infants and the rape of children. We have gutless wonders of New Catholic Church bishops, who are so consumed with power and money that they have no problem shoveling out the invalid Novus Ordo cookie to the likes of Kerry and Kennedy. We have gutless wonders of New Catholic Church politicians who pose as "Catholics" for a photo op, but when it comes to acting like Catholics, they are nowhere to be found.
In a little-known passage from Sacred Scripture, it appears that King Solomon predicted the demise of the Church, as he did that of the Jewish Temple, which he himself had built. His description of the day when the Faith and its sacred ceremonies would be abandoned sounds exactly like the current situation of the Roman Catholic Church of JP2, the not so great [who ruined the Rosary] and Benedict Ratziger [who ruined the Stations of the Cross], when so many of those who call themselves "Catholic" have abandoned God's Faith and traditional sacred ceremonies, and when a battered Church is paying the penalty for that abandonment:
But if you and your children revolting shall turn away from following me, and will not keep my commandments, and my ceremonies, which I have set before you, but will go and worship strange gods, and adore them. I will take away Israel from the face of the land which I have given them. And the temple which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast out of my sight. And Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people. And this house shall be made an example of. Every one that shall pass by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss, and say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house? And they shall answer: Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and followed strange gods, and adored them, and worshipped them. Therefore hath the Lord brought upon them all this evil? (3 Kings 9:6-9/DRV)
This passage provides a clear answer to the question that all too many ask: Why has the Lord brought upon the Church all this evil? The answer is that the the Church and its Presbyters have forsaken their God and worshipped strange gods.
