| Kasz216 said: And for the record. I don't support the smuggling of Nazis. I'm just not as uncritical as to take a single quote in a single article as to mean that the Vatican itself planned some nazi escape route and only objection to the holocaust was that they themselves weren't the ones flipping the switch. I'm not a fan of the Catholic Church... I think thanks to them, thousands of interesting christian documents were lost... as was in general the true spirit of Christianity due to it's condensing everything to just their branch... but i'm not someone who just mindlessly bashes something with the slightest unchecked pretext. |
I don't think that the Vatican didn't object to the holocaust, or that as an entity it organized the escape of Nazis. I do think that quite a significant element within the church at the time was anti-semetic (not a huge surprise in Europe at the time) and organized escape routes and I think the church itself didn't make much of an effort to prevent that happening.
The church isn't an entity with a single mind though, other elements of the church undeniably helped to keep thousands of Jews from being murdered.
