Catholic Heroes… Pope Pius XII (1876-1958)
By DEB PIROCH Part 2 We spoke in last week’s column, part one, about the encyclical of Pope Pius XII’s Predecessor, entitled Mit Brennender Sorge, in which he had a role. This evidenced part of a continuum shown by the Church, in which Pacelli, the future Pope, showed the Church’s antipathy toward and disgust with the evil of Hitler’s ideology.One of the most vile and most repeated lies perpetuated today is that the Church, along with Pope Pius XII, remained “silent” while Jews and others were killed during the Holocaust. Most who repeat this falsehood do not realize no one thought to invent this fiction until the 1960s. It was introduced in the German work, Der Stellvertreter, a play by…Continue Reading