Not content with a wave of violence and hate against Christians in their country, Israel’s media outlets are now resurrecting an old blood libel against Pope Pius XII.
One of the greatest popes in history, Pius XII was an outspoken of the Nazis both before and during his papacy.
As Secretary of State for the Vatican, Pius XII spoke up against them, so much so that the Nazis did not send a representative to his coronation as pope.
Over the years, a black legend has existed against Pius XII, claiming that he did not do enough to stop the Holocaust. The same ones spreading this black legend are those Allied countries who partnered with Joseph Stalin and allowed him to kill even more people than were killed by the Nazis. Though we had better not talk about the Potsdam Conference.
When Pius XII’s archive was opened in recent years, we were told that it would reveal a smoking gun that he was secretly in cahoots with the Nazis or something of that kind. No such document has turned up, in fact most documents have shown his efforts to help people. The chief rabbi of Rome even converted to Catholicism after the war after being inspired by Pius XII.
In an article this week, possibly to deflect from their nation’s bad press over their persecution of Christians, The Times of Israel have sent a warning to the Vatican about possibly making Pius XII into a saint.
In a deranged rant, they write:
The time has come for the Vatican to end nearly 60 years of febrile speculation by confirming loudly and clearly that Pius XII – the wartime Pope whose legacy is irredeemably stained by his failure to confront the Nazi regime over the Holocaust – is no longer a candidate for sainthood.
They then claim that Pope Francis last talked about the topic in 2014 and merely alluded to the need for miracles. However, that is not true.
In 2015, Pope Francis asked about why the Allies were not too concerned with destroying the concentration camps despite flying over them, asking:
The great powers had photographs of the railway routes that the trains took to the concentration camps, like Auschwitz, to kill the Jews, and also the Christians, and also the Roma, also the homosexuals
Tell me, why didn't they bomb those railroad routes?
Francis also asked why the Allies did nothing about the Armenian Genocide or Stalin’s persecutions, pointing out that the majority of victims in both cases were Christians.
Francis also pointed out that the United Kingdom and the United States sat down with Joseph Stalin as an equal and then ‘The great powers divided up Europe like a cake’, something that we are still feeling the effects of today in Ukraine and elsewhere.
The article in the Times of Israel, co written by a former head of the Anti Defamation League, concludes:
Eight decades after the war ended, much has been achieved to bring about a historic reconciliation between the Catholic Church and the Jews, but that project will remain unfinished for as long as Pius’s beatification remains a possibility.
Perhaps Israel should do more about those stabbing Christian priests, setting fire to churches and attacking our graveyards in their lands.
