Pope Pius XII told churches not to return Holocaust Babies?
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/520870.html
According to papers dated 11/26/1940, released Tuesday, The Vatican instructed the Catholic Church in France not to return baptized Jewish children to their families after the Holocaust.
Pius XII has been widely criticized for his lack of leadership and failure to publicaly condemn the Nazi's during their reign. He did send secret instructions urging the national churches to intervent on behalf of oppressed Jews in whatever ways they could. Hungary and Slovakia as well as other places, these instructions were sent directly from the Vatican to civil authorities. These communications have been said to have saved numerous Jews.
And in France, when Germans began deporting French Jews, the Catholic bishops were reported as having gone into the streets wearing a yellow star in protest.
To give the Catholic church some credit, at least they helped save some of the children. On the flip side, if they were concerned for the children's religious instruction in a non-Catholic environment, shouldn't they have trusted God to take care of that?
According to papers dated 11/26/1940, released Tuesday, The Vatican instructed the Catholic Church in France not to return baptized Jewish children to their families after the Holocaust.
Pius XII has been widely criticized for his lack of leadership and failure to publicaly condemn the Nazi's during their reign. He did send secret instructions urging the national churches to intervent on behalf of oppressed Jews in whatever ways they could. Hungary and Slovakia as well as other places, these instructions were sent directly from the Vatican to civil authorities. These communications have been said to have saved numerous Jews.
And in France, when Germans began deporting French Jews, the Catholic bishops were reported as having gone into the streets wearing a yellow star in protest.
To give the Catholic church some credit, at least they helped save some of the children. On the flip side, if they were concerned for the children's religious instruction in a non-Catholic environment, shouldn't they have trusted God to take care of that?
posted by Ellie at 12:09 PM
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