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The Truth Will Set You Free commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII (October 9, 1958).
On the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Pius XII, Sr. Margherita Marchione recalls the outstanding contribution that his life made to the world. Sr. Margherita has long been in the forefront of the battle to restore the reputation of this contribution of Pope Pius XII to its saintly rank. This selection of her writings and of others bears testimony to her passion for truth.
Her work issues a challenge to all Catholics to learn the truth and speak out courageously. It adds a new level of information concerning the work carried out by this dedicated servant of God.
- Sales Rank: #3622087 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Paulist Press
- Published on: 2009-03-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.34" h x .63" w x 5.62" l, .67 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 122 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
About the Author
Sister Margherita Marchione is a member of the Religious Sisters Filippini and professor emerita of Italian language and literature at Fairleigh Dickinson University. She has authored more than forty books and lectures widely in both North America and Europe. She currently resides in Morristown, NJ.
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The Dimutive Feisty Nun Strikes Yet Once Again-Sister Marchione is at Her Best When She is Angry
By James E. Egolf
Sister Marchione, the small 86 year old nun, has yet again written a solid book on behalf of Pope Pius XII. Her book titled THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE is another spirited, well researched, and well written book which demolishes the attempt to smear Pope Pius XII as somehow Hitler's Pope which is easily refuted by documents and sources-honest history. This book is another solid antidote to Catholic bashers whose only claims are hot air and empty bias without any shred of proof.
The Preface by Robert Monyihan,Ph.D. and the Forward by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone should invite the unitiated to further read this book and explore this book and sources listed in the Bibliography. Both men wrote short but interesting invitations to read the book. Those not familar with the controversy will appreciate these introductions.
The first two chapters are summaries of the false claims brought against Pope Pius XII as well as earlier accolades of him during Pope Pius XII's lifetime and shortly after his death. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) made a remark to begin chapter one which is, "Only the Catholic Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's camgaign for suppressing the truth." One must remember that Albert Einstein was born into a Jewish family and was not Catholic. Among those who have joined "the band wagon" against Pope Pius XII have been NEW YORK TIMES (NYT) editors and journalists. Sister Marchione makes fools out the current NYT and LOS ANGELES TIMES (LAT) journalists and editors. Beginning in 1940 and until Pope Pius XII died in October, 1958,Sister Marchione cites quotes from the NYT which highly praised this great man. The current LAT editors and journalists ignore the articles written during the 1940s by the LOS ANGELES EXAMINER journalists. The undersigned is amazed that current journalists have joined the howling pack of Catholic bashers in spite of their earlier journalists who lauded Pope Pius XII. One wonders if these journalists have ever read any history or their predecessors' articles. This should be embarrassing, but, given the sorry state of journalism, they are too ignorant to notice until someone tells them. Then they get angry at the exposure.
What should attract readers' attention is the number of prominent Jews including rabbis who have acclaimed Pope Pius XII. For example, readers may be interested in Rabbi Dalin's book THE MYTH OF HITLER's POPE. Sister Marchione cited Rabbi Dalin's article defending Pope Pius XII in the February 26, 2001 edition of the WEEKLY STANDARD. Martin Gilbert, the prominent British Jewish historian has demolished those who have smeared Pope Pius XII. The Jewish historian Pinchas Lapide wrote another solid book defending the Catholic Church and Pope Pius XII in his book titled THREE POPES AND THE JEWS which was published in 1967. Sister Marchione's research of Jewish sources and citations defending Pope Pius XII is simply unanswerable.
Sister Marchione has also discredited Pope Pius XII's detractors by citing their sloppy research and lack of intellectual integrity-if they have any. For example, Sister Marchione destroys a document written by Alberto Mellioni written in 2004. Melloni alleged that Pope Pius XII ordered that Jewish children who were baptized to conceal their indentities from German and Italian authorities should not be returned to their Jewish parents. Pope Pius XII was clear that baptized Jewish children had to be returned to their Jewish parents. Mellioni cited an unsigned document attributed to Pope Pius XII which the Pope did not sign. The document was written in French when Papal documents were written in Italian. The source of this "document" wants to remain anonymous because his identity would expose him as a liar and a fraud.
Another interesting anecdote in this book is the testimony of Michael Tagliacozzo who is a leading Italian Jewish scholar. He was almost caught by German authorities in 1943 and barely escaped capture. He was sheltered and cared for by Catholic religious who knew they risked their lives. Sister Marchione has several anecdotes which are well documented.
Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church did far more than anyone else to rescue refugees and Jewish people. The Vatican authorities had no army and limited resources, but the Catholic Church had determined courageous priests, monks, nuns, lay Catholics, etc. who risked their lives and did not care about the odds.
Albert Einstein mentioned in the December 23, 1940 edition of TIME (pages 38-41)that he approached German universities in the late 1930s looking for intellectual integrity but did not find it. He then approached the German journalists to find intellectual integrity and did not find it. He finally approched the Catholic Church looking for intellectual integrity and found it. He wrote, "That which I once despised, I will now forever praise." Sister Marchione's book shows intellectual integrity and exposes the lack thereof on the part of Catholic bashers who try to defame Pope Pius XII. Readers should note that Cornwall has fared poorly in debates with this feisty nun and has had to admit he was wrong long after the damage was done.
The value of this book is to show what one determined 86 year old nun accomplished. Her book is valuable, and she added to the value by listing a good bibliography and list of soruces. The undersigned is honored to review this book on the 70th. anniversery of Pope Pius XII's election to the Papacy. This is a solid book.
James E. Egolf March 2,2009
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little new content, an apologia for doing little and tolerating horrors
By Bobby
1. The Many Good Deeds of the Catholic Church
Initially it is important that discussion of Pope Pius not turn into an unwarranted attack on the Catholic Church. During the last half century, the Church has done a tremendous amount of good. If others considered the goal of feeding the hungry and clothing the poor a platitude, the Church helped. Many Catholic Churches have food kitchens on premises and organized campaigns for helping the poor, with Catholic Relief Services coordinating campaigns throughout the world. The Church was a forceful opponent of slavery in the United States at a time when others accepted it. One must separate discussion of Pius during the Holocaust from the Church itself. The historian can analyze individual responsibility without over-generalization, assigning culpability to Pius while noting Pope John Pau lI's heroism and involvement in the underground fighting Nazis.
2. Overview
The case against Pius though looks compelling. He signed an agreement with the Nazi party which he never repudiated, oversaw the German Catholic Church as attacks on Jews turned from vandalism, harassment, loss of jobs to mprisonment, starvation, medical experiment, and extermination of men, women, and children like Anne Frank. His comments were vague and ineffective, and his regime saw the involvement of German Catholics (along with Lutherans) in the most horrible acts known to man. German Catholics along with Lutherans and other Christians arranged the burning of temples, the destruction of Jewish business, and the arrest of women and children --- as a start. They went on to arrange for the organization of extermination camps, and the developement of a modern, orderly system of death. As one German might have said- they talk about Ben Ladin and the 3,000 people killed on 9/11, we killed that number in one week. We pushed the Jews in, starved them, and then killed them, one week, I helped kill 3,431 and was chastized for being slow. For the average German Catholic, it was church on Sunday, during the week help capture Jewish children and women and others, put them in concentration camps, and arrange for their orderly extermination. So let's look at Pius's defense.
3. Failure to Help His Own Catholics
It is important to remember that many killed for being Jews were not Jews at all. Some had converted, had their children baptized, and took communion. Some like Edyth Stein would even become Saints in the Catholic Church. Pius let his own people down, allowing Hitler to determine who was Catholic (having coordinated authority under the Lateran accord). What would have happened had he said, these people you call Jews are members of our church, they are our brothers and sisters, if you hurt them you must hurt us, if you kill them, kill us. The chasm and chaos, and moral questions would have saved thousands, probably millions. Instead, most Catholics said about the new Catholics/ formerly Jews, take them, put them away, do what you want. While some helped most did not.
Jesus's book speaks of love, forgiveness, and compassion, and is wholly inconsistent with the horrors of Nazism. By entering an agreement with the Nazi rulers, never rupudiating it, not excommunicating or condemining those who committed horrors, Pius allowed the fantasy that one could be both Catholic and Nazi, go to church on Sunday, and murder children on Monday.
4. The Failure to examine the Horrors of Nazi Germany
While supporters talk of how well-docuumented the book is, in fact, it choose to ignore most of the horrors of the Nazi state. Rather than being a detailed and even-handed analysis, she attempts to scrape together vague pronouncements while ignoring his failure to speak out clearly and forcefully against the horrors of Nazism. The vague the better seemed to be the watchword, what she called prudence allowed Germans to remain Nazis and members of the Church. Where were the ex-communications for mass murder.
5. The First Argument- the Pope has No Power or Authority, and no German Catholic Would not Have Listened to Him.
Her website summarizes her argument, "Pius XII's critics insist that if he had confronted Hitler directly - publicly excommunicating him and all who supported him - that German Catholics might have risen up in revolt. That is the accusation of the New York Times of March 18. 1998: "The Pope did not encourage Catholics to defy Nazis' orders." The idea that the Pope could bring about massive German defiance is completely implausible.
The Pope had millions of loyal Catholics who listened to him. One Papal visit to a city would bring not hundreds or even thousands, but hundreds of thousands of loyal followers. Christians followed his teaching regarding not only religious worship, but the most personal things in their lives, whether to remain married, engage in contraception, and how to raise their children. The idea that these Catholics would have ignored the Pope had he spoke forcefully is absurd. Instead, the widespread ignominy of starvation, murder, medical experiments- horrors vastly exceeding any Pagan country, only occurred because of the Pope's perceived submission to Nazi policies. How Pius visited but one synagogue or publicly embraced one Rabbi, the depth and scope of this tragedy would have been reduced.
6. Thousands of Loyal Catholics Were Never Called Upon to Help the Jews or Fight the Nazi State.
Rather than live in courage fighting in justice, their lives were consumed with the horrors of following the Nazi state with many to die anyway. The Pope might not have toppled Hitler but if he spoke out if he could have mitigated many of the horrors; German Catholics did not divorce or abort in part because of Church condemnation, they did kill Jews and then others because they saw no inconsistency between Nazi doctrine and the Church, particularly after their Pope had signed an agreement with the Nazi government. Does anyone think Nazis could have attacked Catholics the same way they did Jews. Well, fellow Nazis, you've done a good job at destroying Jews and burning their businesses but today we have a change. Horst, I need you to go down and burn the church your family belongs to, Helmut, go to the church down the road and break the statutes of Jesus and the Virgin Mary, and Dieter, get a group together to beat up and rape the nuns at the convent down the road.
7. Nazis and Christians saw no Inconsistency Between Christian Teachings, and Nazi teachings partly because of the Silence and Acquisesnce of German Religious Leaders
Today Christians today rightly condemn Nazi ideas as barbaric and contrary to Jesus's teachings of love, forgiveness, and morality. The central concept of forgiveness was obviously ignored in Nazi ideology, and the doctrine of Pope John Paul II that Jews do not live in perpetual infamy because of their sins had not seen its day. Constantine's vision of a Christian state seems similar to the Nazi ideal of a Juden-free society, an earlier Pope had suggested the armband to identify and segregate Jews, Jesus himself became so angry at Jewish moneylenders that he turned over their tables, and Jews were believed to have betrayed for monetary gain the same way Judas betrayed Jesus. Instead, many saw little inconsistency between Nazi and Christian thought, and most Christians in this Christian country became enthusiastic supporters. From 1933-1940, the worse the state treated the Jews the better everyone else's lives became. Only in the next 5 years, would these Nazis suffer a comparable fate, as German soldiers would freeze in Russia, German women in 1945 would be raped and murdered, and German children as young as 10 would be asked to fight and die in a war that was clearly over.
Leaders like John PaulII clarified Christian thoughs making it clear that punishing Jews is not Christian; Pius's failure to speak out clearly allowed the myth that one could be a Nazi Catholic to prevail under the end of the war, when even Christians reflected on the horrors, saw the naken starved bodies piled up in Auschwitz and realized what horrors had been committed at the concentration camps where Christsmas had been celebrated. By not striking a moral path and hiding any support for the Jews, Pius failed not only those who could have been saved but his German Catholic followers themselves who once they became used to tormenting and then murdering Jews, went on to kill others, and then sent 10 and 12 years old boys to the war front.
Margione writes, "Did Pope Pius XII help the Jews? Indeed he did. Nor can one claim he was silent. Rather one must speak of his "prudence." That vagueness and equivocation couched as "prudence" allowed German Catholic to participate in the holocaust and they did. The murder of 1,000,000 Jews in Poland, a country that was 90% Catholic, could not have occurred with the active opposition of the Church. He knew how to speak clearly; no Catholic could fail to know of his Church's opposition to abortion or divorce; but equivocation and vagueness could be construed as permission for those who sought ways to avoid confronting a brutal regime.
9. Modest Help Cannot be Disputed
Did he help Italian Jews; undoubtedly so, and that dispells the notion that he was anti-semitic. But the many more who died much be laid at his legacy as his followers committed the most horrible acts known to man. The case of him as an atni-semite is weak and based upon a few supposed statement, that his followers committed horrible crimes is an indictment far more difficult to rebut.
10. As we Should Recognize the Heroic Acts of Many Catholics and those charity of so many in the Catholic Church, we cannot give Pius a Pass for doing too little too late.
Would those who opposed Hitler have suffered-undoubtedly so. But it is the role of a religious leader to suggest submission to horrible acts to save one's skin- do you turn your head to a brutal beating because you are worried about the consequences. What about morality. Many would surely have ignored church statements but others would have been saved.
The Truth does not set Pius free from legitimate criticims of his moral role.
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