Diaries prove Pope was hostile...
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2004 4:53 pm
The long-running controversy over the attitude of Pope Pius X11 to the Nazi Holocaust has taken a new turn with the publication of diaries that prove that after the Nazis' defeat he opposed the return of Jewish children to their parents.
The diaries were kept by Angello Roncalli, the future Pope John XX111, from 1945 to 1948 when Roncalli was papal nuncio (ambassador) to Paris. They document the efforts by Roncalli to re-unite Jewish Families torn apart by the war and whose children had been taken under the wing of the Roman Catholic Church.
Roncalli's role in helping Jews escape from Nazi persecution has long been acknowledged. But the diaries show Pius X11 was hostile to the efforts.
The diaries were kept by Angello Roncalli, the future Pope John XX111, from 1945 to 1948 when Roncalli was papal nuncio (ambassador) to Paris. They document the efforts by Roncalli to re-unite Jewish Families torn apart by the war and whose children had been taken under the wing of the Roman Catholic Church.
Roncalli's role in helping Jews escape from Nazi persecution has long been acknowledged. But the diaries show Pius X11 was hostile to the efforts.