Discovery shines light on Church's protection of Jews during Nazi persecution
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Re: Discovery shines light on Church's protection of Jews during Nazi persecution
#2"We have always been on the good side, forget the thing with the kids"
Re: Discovery shines light on Church's protection of Jews during Nazi persecution
#3Catholic church has history of being the lead in genocide, as for example in Croatia, where priests participated in killings of Serbs, Roma, Jews and Croats. Church also ran the only concentration camp for kids (Stara Gradiška) with countless kids killed by beating and starvation.
Any source about Church role during WWII coming from the Church itself should be taken with a lot of doubts.
Re: Discovery shines light on Church's protection of Jews during Nazi persecution
#4Unfortunately whilst this one off case is nice to hear, the very "cross" in the Nazi symbol is called the "hakencruz" meaning hooked cross, it was a pastor that renamed it to a Hindu swastika to take off the limelight
Re: Discovery shines light on Church's protection of Jews during Nazi persecution
#5Catholic church has history of being the lead in genocide, as for example in Croatia, where priests participated in killings of Serbs, Roma, Jews and Croats. Church also ran the only concentration camp for kids (Stara Gradiška) with countless kids killed by beating and starvation. Any source about Church role during WWII coming from the Church itself should be taken with a lot of doubts.
Just read about Stara Gradiska on Wikipedia. Horrific what happened there but I can’t see anything about the church running it. There’s one reference to a Franciscan Friar but I can’t find any more than that. Can’t find anything on Google either. Do you have any links for further reading on the subject?
Re: Discovery shines light on Church's protection of Jews during Nazi persecution
#6read more about the Church’s storied wwii history! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)
Re: Discovery shines light on Church's protection of Jews during Nazi persecution
#7Oh **t... what have you done?!?!?!
You're going to get sooo beaten up here!!! Probably even banned!!!
You can't post things like this!!! You can't defend the church!!! Didn't you know that?!?! [sarcastic smile]
Incoming in 3, 2, 1...
Re: Discovery shines light on Church's protection of Jews during Nazi persecution
#8Catholic church has history of being the lead in genocide, as for example in Croatia, where priests participated in killings of Serbs, Roma, Jews and Croats. Church also ran the only concentration camp for kids (Stara Gradiška) with countless kids killed by beating and starvation. Any source about Church role during WWII coming from the Church itself should be taken with a lot of doubts.
> A joint press release by the Pontifical Biblical Institute, the Jewish Community of Rome, and Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, published on 7 September, offered details of the discovery.
Even if you want to be skeptical of the PBI, I'd think the Jewish Community of Rome and the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum would do their due diligence to confirm this info matches other information they have about the area at the time before joining a press release about it?
Re: Discovery shines light on Church's protection of Jews during Nazi persecution
#9"We have always been on the good side, forget the thing with the kids"
I saw for my own eyes that for people who dislike the church there is nothing it can do to to be recognized as doing something positive. They will always down play any "good" that could have come from it.
Re: Discovery shines light on Church's protection of Jews during Nazi persecution
#10I wonder how this interplays with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_orphans_controversy (church institutions refused to return children they sheltered to their parents post war because the church had baptised them).