Pope Benedict XVI, in his address to the synagogue in Rome today, said that Pope Pius XII had saved Jews during the Holocaust "in a discreet way." But the president of the city's Jewish community told the congregation that the "silence" of Pius "still hurts." The two grafs of this story in the London Times provide a good summary of this long-awaited visit:
Pope Benedict XVI claimed today that the Vatican and many Italian Catholics had saved Jews during the Second World War, “often in a hidden and discreet way”. He was responding to accusations that Pius XII, the wartime pontiff he has put on the road to sainthood, failed to speak out against the Holocaust.
However, Jewish leaders used the Pope's first visit to the Rome synagogue to condemn Pius XII for failing to raise his voice in defence of “our brothers who were sent to the ovens of Auschwitz."
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'Fr. Floriano Abrhamowicz, a traditionalist priest who has been excommunicated by the Vatican and expelled by the Society of St. Pius X, the main Lefebvrite body, and who celebrated the “Mass of reparation” on Sunday
“The one missing in all of this is Jesus Christ.”
IMPRIMATUR:Most Reverend Fabian W. Bruskewitz, D.D., S.T.D.Bishop of Lincoln
Righty-o on that.
And I'm sure he doesn't mean to marginalize our separated brethren in the SSPX, does he? Why that would be like marginalizing our separated brethren in the protestant world, the jews, and muslims. We're all God's creatures.