Pope Pius XII supported NAZI invasion of soviet union.At present it's hard to find but u will find it many WW2 documentaries.
In the 1937 encyclical
Mit brennender Sorge, drafted by Pope Pius XII when he was still a cardinal,
[49] Pope Pius XI denounced Nazism and breaches of the
Reichskonkordat. Read from the pulpits of all German Catholic churches, it has been described as the first official denunciation of
Nazism made by any major organization.
[50] Nazi persecution of the Church in Germany then began by "outright repression" and "staged prosecutions of monks for homosexuality, with the maximum of publicity."
[111] When Dutch bishops protested against the deportation of Jews, the Nazis responded with even more severe measures.
[50] In Poland, the Nazis murdered over 2500 monks and priests while even more were sent to concentration camps.
[111] The Priester-Block (priests barracks) in the
Dachau concentration camp lists 2600 Roman Catholic priests.
[48] Pius XII's refusal to censure the German invasion and annexation of Poland was regarded as a "betrayal" by many Polish Catholics and clergy, who saw his appointment of
Hilarius Breitinger as apostolic administrator for the
Wartheland in May 1942 as "implicit recognition" of the breakup of Poland; the opinions of the
Volksdeutsche, mostly-Catholic German minorities living in Poland, were more mixed.
[112] Although Pius XII received frequent reports about atrocities committed by and/or against Catholics, his knowledge was not complete; for example, he wept after the war upon learning that Cardinal Hlond had banned German liturgical services in Poland.
[113] Phayer argues that Pius XII—both before and during his papacy—consistently "deferred to Germany at the expense of Poland", and saw Germany—not Poland—as critical to "rebuilding a large Catholic presence in Central Europe".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII#World_War_II
.with the help church Mussolini came to power in Italy
More BS
Read here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini
THIS TIME I CANT BELIEVE MY EYES!!!! HOW CAN ANYONE ASKS THIS????????????????????????
and even no one ever noticed it?
U just forgot Hiroshima/Nagasaki......which world do you live in ?
2 Atomic bombs dont make a nuclear war . Is ww2 a nuclear war ?
Are u kidding me ?
If japan had retaliated it would have become a war
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That was a diversion if you knew history very well. The church has accepted that fact.
It was not sponsored by the Church , everybody knows that .
That one incident which happened hundreds of years ago cannot be hold against the church.
Nobody is holding it against the church . It is an excellent example to illustrate that the crusade was a political not religious war
Those were dark times. nothing was certain. When we sit comfy in a chair and type things we may not understand everything that happened. It was a huge mistake from the church's part, no arguments their though. but making it sound like it happens now..is just...
Where did anybody say it happens now ? [in this thread]
I always loved when people with bits of information make statements that is not entirely true. just mis informed i think.
it could be you
by no means was it a one off incident
On a popular level, the first crusades unleashed a wave of impassioned, personally felt pious Christian fury that was expressed in the massacres of
Jews that accompanied the movement of the Crusader mobs through Europe, as well as the violent treatment of "
schismatic" Orthodox Christians of the east. During many of the attacks on Jews, local Bishops and Christians made attempts to protect Jews from the mobs that were passing through. Jews were often offered sanctuary in churches and other Christian buildings.
