SHHHHH, WE'RE PRETENDING OTHERWISE?:

Israeli envoy backs off Pius XII praise (JTA, 6/26/11)

An Israeli official who praised Pope Pius XII for saving Jews during World War II retreated from his comments amid a hail of criticism.

Israel's ambassador to the Vatican, Mordechay Lewy, said his comments were "premature." [...]

Levy said, during a ceremony June 24 honoring an Italian priest that helped save Jews from the Nazis, that Catholic institutions in Rome helped save Jews when the Nazis came to Rome's Ghetto. "It would be a mistake to say that the Catholic Church, the Vatican and the pope himself opposed actions to save the Jews. To the contrary, the opposite is true," he said.

Silly boy, we're now in the post-mature phase, where we pretend that the mature view was wrong and that prior Jews were lying about the Pope being a righteous gentile.

Posted by oj at June 26, 2011 11:35 AM
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