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	Pope Pius XII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, as Cardinal Pacelli, Pius XII was against the Nazis' increasing political power in Germany and in August 1933 wrote to the British representative to the Holy See his disgust with the Nazis and "their persecution of the Jews, their proceedings against political opponents, the reign of terror to which the whole nation was subjected."
		As the war was approaching its end in 1945, Pius XII advocated a lenient policy by the Allied leaders for the vanquished in an effort to prevent the mistakes made at the end of World War I.
		Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust - defence of Pius XII
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Pius_XII (4282 words)

	Pius XII. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Elevated to the papacy in 1939, Pius was the first papal secretary to be elected in centuries and the first Roman pope since 1730.
		After the war Pius was alarmed by the resurgence of Communism in Italy and fostered the growth of Catholic Action groups to strengthen the Christian Democratic party.
		Pope Pius was widely venerated during his lifetime, and proceedings for his beatification were begun in 1965.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pi/Pius12.html (421 words)

	CATHOLIC LEAGUE for Religious and Civil Rights: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
		By Ronald Rychlak, Ph.D. The Pope Pius XII Controversy
		Pius XII and the Jews: The War Years
		By Ronald Rychlak, Ph.D. Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
	www.catholicleague.org /pius/framemain.htm (170 words)

	Pius XII-FAQs
		The general charge against Pope Pius XII is that he maintained a “continued attitude of silence” in the face of Nazism and the horror of the Holocaust.
		Pius XII and the Church were neither silent nor complacent in the face of the Nazi horror.
		It is argued that Pope Pius XII killed the encyclical because of that condemnation.
	www.catholicleague.org /pius/piusxii_faqs.html (5927 words)

	Catholic Answers: How Pius XII Protected Jews
		If there were any truth to the charge that Pius XII was silent, the silence would not have been out of moral cowardice in the face of the Nazis, but because the Pope was waging a subversive, clandestine war against them in an attempt to save Jews.
		Pius XII also took a public stance concerning the Jews of Italy: "The Pope spoke out strongly in their defense with the first mass arrests of Jews in 1943, and L’Osservatore Romano carried an article protesting the internment of Jews and the confiscation of their property.
		In June,1944, Pius XII sent a telegram to Admiral Miklos Horthy, the ruler of Hungary, and was able to halt the planned deportation of 800,000 Jews from that country.
	www.catholic.com /library/HOW_Pius_XII_PROTECTED_JEWS.asp (2757 words)

	PIUS XII : GREATNESS DISHONOURED
		In the twenty two years since Pius XII died the falsehood and misrepresentation published about him are possibly unique in biographical literature of the same years.
		Pius XII was strong; he did not fear criticisms, opposition, lamentation, accusation.
		Pius XII never saw the Gerstein report, as his Berlin representative summarily dismissed the man. Friedrich Heer, the Austrian historian, also reproduces fantasy.
	mafg.home.isp-direct.com /nazi01.htm (2803 words)

	Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
		However one comes out on the issue of what Pius did or did not do, what he should or should not have done, for potential victims of the Holocaust, Cornwell leaves little doubt that this pope should hardly be considered a candidate for canonization.
		In his Christmas 1942 address Pius did refer, if obliquely, to the Final Solution and "those thousands who, without any fault of their own, sometimes only by reason of their nationality or race, are marked down for death or gradual distinction." Obviously, Pius did not explicitly mention either Nazis or Jews here.
		Pius was perfectly capable of silence when fellow Catholics were being brutalized by Hitler or when Orthodox Christians were being massacred by Catholics.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /genocide/reviewstr34.htm (2298 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Cornwell’s Cheap Shot at Pius XII
		He does not claim that Pius XII was a personal friend of Hitler but that Hitler could not have wished for a pope more pliable, weak, and intent on appeasement with him and his regime.
		During the war Pope Pius XII spoke frequently about the duties of those who governed the occupied countries, which at that time referred exclusively to countries occupied by the Nazis.
		Pius XII did this in a manner unequaled by any state or organization, as was attested by many Jewish authorities and individuals.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=2830 (4042 words)

	Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
		Pius XII protested against the deportation of Jews and, when his protests were not heeded, he cabled again and again.
		Pius XII gave his permission to send coded radio messages warning papal nuncios in Brussels and The Hague of the plot.
		Pope Pius XII ordered Jewish babies baptized by Catholics during the Holocaust not to be returned to their parents.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/anti-semitism/pius.html (2586 words)

	FT June/July 2002: Goldhagen v. Pius XII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		According to Goldhagen, Pius XI drafted it, Pius XII buried it, and it remained hidden until it was published in France in 1995.
		Pius XII was upset about reports the ambassador was receiving from people outside of occupied Poland who, relying on erroneous information, complained that the Pope was doing too much for Jews, but not enough for Poles.
		Pius XII was the most warmly humane, kindly, generous, sympathetic (and, incidentally, saintly) character that it has been my privilege to meet in the course of a long life.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0206/articles/rychlak.html (12538 words)

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		Pius XII was a highly active, energetic and zealous opponent of totalitarianism and oppression.
		Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical letter Mit Brennender Sorge in 1937 because he was then the ruling Pope; but it was Cardinal Pacelli, later Pius XII, who wrote it.
		Pius XII's first encyclical in 1939, Summi Pontificatus, repeated the theme and the Gestapo were immediately given orders by the Nazi leadership to prevent its distribution.
	www.angelfire.com /pa3/OldWorldBasic/PiusXII.htm (1351 words)

	Pope Pius XII Vicar of Christ Servant of God Deserving of Sainthood
		During World War II, 1939—45, and for nearly twenty years after, Pope Pius XII was almost universally regarded as a saintly man, a scholar, a man of peace, a tower of strength, and a compassionate defender and protector of all victims of the war and genocide that had drowned Europe in blood for six years.
		The overall effect was to replace the judgment of Pius XII as a great and good man with the judgment of him as a weak, cold, church bureaucrat.
		Today the principal admirers of Pius XII are devout Catholics, those who have studied his life and actions, the Vatican, and John Paul II.
	www.piusxiipope.info (830 words)

	Pius XII and the Holocaust
		Given how widespread the belief that Pius did not do enough is, these articles astounded me. What struck me most is that, first, many of the defenders of Pius XII are Jews who testify to what they know about Pius's actions.and, second, that it is Nazis who make the strongest argument that Pius was anti-Nazi.
		Pius XII had already prepared the text of a public protest against the persecution of the Jews.
		After the war was over, Pius XII received a large delegation of Roman Jews in the Vatican and ordered that the Imperial steps be opened for them to enter by.
	members.aol.com /cmcginmd/PiusXII_Holocaust.htm (2378 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Pius XII: Saintly defender of European Jews
		The rabbi's libelous charge of Pope Pius XII's "moral cowardice" for "having never once summoned the courage to condemn the Nazi Holocaust" is laughable when seen against comments by respected Jewish leaders of the war era.
		Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir gave a moving public testimonial to Pius XII at the United Nations at his death in 1958 –; long enough after the war for facts to be known.
		Pius XII – not any Jewish person or organization – rescued hundreds of thousands of Jews, as many Jews themselves have attested.
	worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42406 (2497 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"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".
		During the second world war, Pope Pius XII was lauded for his singular efforts to halt the carnage.
		That Pius XII was silent in the face of the Holocaust; that he did little to help the Jews; that he was in fact a pro-German if not pro-Nazi; that underneath it all he was anti-Semite - are all monstrous calumnies that now seem to pass for accepted wisdom.
	www.al-bushra.org /vatican/indefense.htm (973 words)

	Holocaust Speeches
		PETITION FOR THE BEATIFICATION OF POPE PIUS XII
		Jesuits on Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
		This was underscored in Pius' major disciple, Pope Paul VI who, during his trip to Israel in January of 1964, refrained from even mentioning Israel other than to refer to it in terms of the Holy Land.
	www.holycross.edu /departments/history/vlapomar/hiatt/piusXII.htm (2613 words)

	Pius XII -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		After Pius XI's death on February 10, 1939, Cardinal Pacelli was elected his successor as Pope Pius XII in a short conclave.
		Pius XI's planned encyclical, Humani generis unitas (“The Unity of the Human Race”), against racism and anti-Semitism, was returned to its authors by the new pope.
		Pius XI was born at Desio, near Milan, on May 31, 1857.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9060250?tocId=9060250 (624 words)

	LIBRARY DOCUMENTS ON PIUS XII
		Against John Cornwell's book: "Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII," a point by point rebuttal is provided by Dr. Peter Gumpel, S.J., one of the most respected authorities on the Catholic Church and the Second World War and postulator of the cause for beatification of Pius XII.
		In spite of campaign launched against Pius XII, his cause of beatification "is proceeding rapidly," according to Fr.
		Raises the question of why Pius XII continues to be charged with doing nothing to save the Jews, when the evidence to the contrary is so accessible and compelling.
	www.ewtn.com /library/CHISTORY/PIUS12.HTM (1169 words)

	Catholic Pages Directory: » The Church » The Pope » Pope Pius XII
		Pope Pius XII and the Jews by Sr Margherita Marchione.
		Pope Pius XII has been unfairly blamed over the past fifty years: for not having denounced Hitler publicly, for his perceived inaction against the Nazis, and for his failure to help the Jews.
		Pus XII and the Holocaust by Thomas Craughwell (from Sursum Corda!
	www.catholic-pages.com /dir/pius12.asp (563 words)

	PIUS XII
		Pius X made him a monsignor and set him to work on the titanic task of re-codifying canon law.
		Few popes have traveled as widely as Pius XII, and he is the first pope to have visited the United States.
		Pius called on Catholics all over the world and especially in comparatively comfortable America to share with the needy.
	www.cfpeople.org /Books/Pope/POPEp258.htm (552 words)

	Christian Pius XII in Canada - Praize Canada
		A Catholic Response: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
		Article points out that accusing Pope Pius XII of being indifferent to the Holocaust is a recent development based on fiction.
		A new book accusing Pius XII of being "Hitler's Pope" overestimates the pontiff's influence and underestimates his character.
	www.praize.ca /engine/Denominations/Catholicism/Popes/P/Pius_XII (418 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Pius XII and the Second World War: According to the Archives of the Vatican (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Blet makes it abundantly clear that Pius XII was an informed and eloquent foe of Nazism, and directed Church activity in furtherance of saving innocent Jewish lives from what he deemed to be the unmitigated evil of Nazism.
		This work makes it clear that Pius XII was deeply affected by the plight of the Jews, and believed he was acting prudently in their defense.
		Pius XII is shown to be the hero he truly was - a holy man of God, doing the best that could be expected incredibly difficult circumstances.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0809105039?v=glance (2561 words)

	Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
		ope Pius XII was a diplomat and not a radical preacher.
		The voice of Pius XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness enveloping Europe this Christmas...
		Pope Pius expresses as passionately as any leader on our side the war aims of the struggle for freedom when he says that those who aim at building a new world must fight for free choice of government and religious order.
	users.binary.net /polycarp/piusxii.html (1534 words)

	Knights of Columbus Council 5045 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Pope Pius XII Council 5045 is associated with Christ the King Catholic Church in Omaha, Nebraska at 654 S. 86th Street.
		Pope Pius XII Council 5045 was chartered October 13, 1960, the Rev Msgr.
		The Pope Pius XII Council works closely with the Christ the King Parish in Omaha, providing funds for various projects, supporting school activities, the members being active participants in their parish.
	www.nebraskakofc.org /kc5045 (175 words)

	VEN. PIUS XII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pius held to Sacred Tradition as all good Catholics are bound to, and would understand our little efforts on behalf of Holy Mother Church, Jesus Christ, and him.
		Pope Pius XII was the Pontiff under whose reign I was born and grew to young womanhood.
		PIUS XII AND THE HOLOCAUST by Thomas Craughwell
	www.catholictradition.org /piusxii.htm (1039 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Hitler's Pope : The Secret History of Pius XII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He meticulously builds his case for the painful conclusion that "Pacelli's failure to respond to the enormity of the Holocaust was more than a personal failure, it was a failure of the papal office itself and the prevailing culture of Catholicism." --Wendy Smith --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
		And the other point is in the midst of all of the controversy regarding Pius, maybe it's time to open the Archivo Segreto Vaticano and let the cards fall where they may. Let the historical pundits have their way with the records now almost 70 years old.
		Hitler's Pope : The Secret History of Pius XII is an important addition to the story of the Vatican's goals in the late nineteenth century and the first two thirds of the twentieth.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140296271?v=glance (2096 words)

	Patron Saints Index: Venerable Pope Pius XII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is estimated that Pius XII aided more than 1,500,000 refugees, including Jews, throughout the war, especially by granting them Vatican citizenship.
		Undoubtedly she accomplished all this through the faith which was always so vibrant and alive in her heart; through the divine love which burned within her; and finally, through constant prayer by which she was so closely united with God from whom she humbly asked and obtained whatever her human weakness could not obtain.
		from a homily by Venerable Pope Pius XII at the canonization of Saint Maria Goretti
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/pope0260.htm (1463 words)

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