No, what I am saying is that by remaining silent, the Church preserved the lives of scores of thousands of clerics, living in the occupied territories, and allowed the Church to continue its pastoral and relief work throughout Europe, upon which many millions depended.
Not that thousands of dead priests would be a bad thing. THink of all the bungholes on Altar Boys that would have been saved.
But, no. The church was cowardly and on the wrong side of history, period. The Church sided with the fascists because they feared the Communists more. Period.
Your anti-God and anti-religion and anti-Catholic bias is almost as strong as your anti-Jewish anti-Israeli bias, and all that makes you an unreliable discussion partner in this.
Guy, this isn't about me.
It's about how the Catholic Church put its material and worldly wealth above it's obligation to speak out against evil.
and shit, they are STILL trying to play it off like they didn't do anything wrong. Let's make Pius XII's Nazi-loving ass a Saint.
No, this isn't about you, but your strong and well-known biases color your argument to an extent worthy of comment.
There has been much back-and-forth about this over the years, and, wealth aside, we are looking at great risk to the lives and well-being of scores of thousands of priests and nuns and monks, and great risk to churches being allowed to remain open, and, consequently, great risk to the vast continent-wide pastoral and charitable-relief missions operated by the Church - one of the few remaining bright spots of comfort during the long Nazi Nightmare - if Pius XII had defied Hitler... not to mention Pius XII's own life put at great risk.
Did any comparable religious leader, of any other branch of Christianity or separate faith, facing similar stakes for his followers, thus embedded in a completely conquered and Axis-controlled territory, openly and publicly call for defiance of the conqueror-occupiers?
I don't think so.
Hell, even the damned Concordat was merely an attempt to get The Beast to agree to leave the Church alone, so that it could continue its work on behalf of the faithful.
Personally, I don't think Pius XII was a 'saint', but I think the guy has probably gotten a bum rap, owing to a lack of understanding of what he was trying to protect; not the wealth of the Church, but to keep his thousands of priests and nuns and monks alive and safe, and to keep his thousands of churches open and up-and-running, so that those churches could continue their pastoral and charitable-relief missions during a very dark time for Europe, when the people of the continent needed every bit of comfort and help they could get.
But that's just me.