Discrimination ok, if based on religion? what else then?

The Catholic church did not 'endorse Nazi Germany'. It maintianed a neutral stance...

It is about taking a stand on politics, Dan.

There was little proof at that time that any genocide was taking place.

The Vatican continues to keep mute on its Holocaust involvement for a painful reason. Its silence was not due to the moral lapses of individual Catholics, or that the church was ignorant of, or duped by, Hitler's aims. It was a deliberate policy of appeasement crafted by church leaders. Before he ascended to the papacy in 1939, Pius XII was the Vatican's ambassador to Germany and secretary of state during the crucial period when Hitler rose to power, and knew full well what Hitler was up to.In his well-documented work, Hitler's Pope: the Secret History of Pius XII, John Cornwell, Jesus College, Cambridge University professor notes that the Vatican signed its ill-famed concordat with Hitler in 1933 to prevent him from grabbing church property and meddling in church affairs. In return the Vatican pledged the absolute obedience of Germany's Catholic priests and bishops to Hitler. As Pope, Pius XII sent a letter praising "the illustrious Hitler," and expressing confidence in his leadership.Even as evidence piled up that thousands of Jews were being shipped to slaughter in Nazi concentration camps, Pius XII refused to reverse the Vatican's see-no-evil, hear-no-evil political course. He ignored the pleas of President Roosevelt to denounce the Nazis. He declined to endorse a joint declaration by Britain, U.S and Russia condemning the killings of Jews, claiming that he couldn't condemn "particular" atrocities. He was publicly silent when the Germans occupied Rome in 1944 and rounded-up many of the city's Jews. Many were later killed in concentration camps. He continued to send birthday greetings to Hitler each year until his death. He did not reprimand the Catholic archbishop of Berlin for issuing a statement mourning Hitler's death.Pius XII's one and only known pronouncement during the war on the mass murders was a tepid, vaguely worded statement denouncing the deaths "of hundreds of thousands." By then there were millions, and he did not mention Hitler, Nazi Germany, or the Jews in the statement.

Dan Carroll writes:It must have been easy to assume that 11 million people had just sorta taken an extended nap. Best not to say anything before all the facts are in.

It is very easy to judge from your swivel chair.

Just read up on it.

I am often surprised that those who do not believe in Papal authority even ask for Popes to be involved in politics.

Please, I can't do links...

Dan Carroll writes:Schraf's post above makes for interesting reading.

It doesn't take a tremendous amount of involvement in politics to say the words, "genocide is wrong."

Then you might like; The Myth of Hitler's Pope by Rabbi David Dalin.

Obviously it doesn't take a tremendous amount of anything to believe the first thing you hear.

anastasia writes:I just need to know how.

Anastasia writes: Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill, and Eisenhower never even mentioned the holocaust in their post-war writings.