Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII has received a lot of bad press in recent years for his alleged support of Nazi Germany. This politically-motivated character assassination perhaps reached its pinnacle in a book called Hitler's Pope by author John Cornwell.
A recent article entitled "New Look at Pius XII's Views of Nazis" in the New York Times at least attempts to set the record straight. Pope Puis XII is quoted as calling Hitler "a fundamentally wicked person" and "an untrustworthy scoundrel" and saying that the Church "at times felt powerless and isolated in its daily struggle against all sorts of political excesses from the Bolsheviks to the new pagans arising among the young Aryan generations."
Pope Pius XII has received a lot of bad press in recent years for his alleged support of Nazi Germany. This politically-motivated character assassination perhaps reached its pinnacle in a book called Hitler's Pope by author John Cornwell.
A recent article entitled "New Look at Pius XII's Views of Nazis" in the New York Times at least attempts to set the record straight. Pope Puis XII is quoted as calling Hitler "a fundamentally wicked person" and "an untrustworthy scoundrel" and saying that the Church "at times felt powerless and isolated in its daily struggle against all sorts of political excesses from the Bolsheviks to the new pagans arising among the young Aryan generations."
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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