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Pope Pius XII praised by former Jewish internees for preventing their deportations to death camps

Posted on 02/03/2012 by

Pope Pius XII praised for preventing Jewish deportations to death camps Pope Pius XII, falsely accused by anti-Catholic bigots of being too compliant towards Hitler and failing to speak up against the Holocaust, was praised by former Jewish prisoners for preventing their deportation … Continue reading →

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Another nail in the coffin to the myth of Pope Pius XII’s supposed pro-Nazi sympathies

Posted on 21/02/2012 by

A self-serving myth, much touted by historical illiterates such as Richard Dawkins, is that Pope Pius XII was somehow indifferent to the suffering of European Jews during the Holocaust and that he was actually pro-Nazi.  Facts mean little or nothing … Continue reading →

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British nun Mother Riccarda Beauchamp Hambrough hid scores of Jews from the Nazis, on track for sainthood

Posted on 15/01/2012 by

British nun who hid Jews from Nazis on track for sainthood Mother Riccarda helped to save the lives of about 60 Jews by hiding them from the Nazis in her Rome convent, the Casa di Santa Brigida. She born in 1887 … Continue reading →

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Did Pope Pius XII go undercover to save Jews during World War II?

Posted on 04/11/2011 by

Researcher thinks Pius XII went undercover to save Jews The Jewish New Yorker who has made it his life’s work to clear the name of Pope Pius XII of being anti-Semitic believes the wartime pontiff actually went undercover to save … Continue reading →

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British Revs. Hugh Grimes and Fred Collard saved some 1,800 Viennese Jews from Holocaust

Posted on 11/08/2011 by

Nazi persecution of Jews: 1,800 saved by the Church of England Schindlers It’s a little-known act of bravery – how two British clerics rescued 1,800 Jews from the Nazis by baptising them. First there was Oskar Schindler, then Sir Nicholas Winton.  … Continue reading →

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More empirical evidence that the New Atheist slurs against Pope Pius XII are unfounded and wrong

Posted on 25/07/2011 by

Newly discovered documents show that Pope Pius XII’s direct action saved the lives of more than 11,400 Jews in Rome, reports Zenit.

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Christian heroes of the Holocaust: Jacques de Jesus, Bernhard Lichtenberg, Giovanni Ferrofino

Posted on 14/02/2011 by

From the Catholic Herald: The French carmelite: Jacques de Jesus Fr Jacques de Jesus was a French Carmelite and headmaster of the Petit Collège Sainte-Thérèse de l’Enfant-Jésus.  Born in Bunel in 1900 he died, emaciated and broken by tuberculosis, in … Continue reading →

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