Talk:Pope Pius XII and Yad Vashem
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Unsourced statements from Yad Vashem article
editI have left unsourced and poorly sourced statements on this topic from the YV article here until they can be confirmed and cleaned up. Savidan 23:21, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
An inscription at Yad Vashem states that Pius XII's record during the Holocaust was controversial, and that he negotiated a concordat with the Nazis, maintained Vatican neutrality during the war and took no initiatives to save Jews.
In 1985, Pietro Palazzini was honored by the museum, where he protested the repeated criticisms against Pius, on whose instructions Palazzini declared to have acted. Palazzini, a theological advisor to the Pontiff, had taught and written about the moral theology of Pope Pius XII.[1]
Rabbi David G. Dalin argues in The Myth of Hitler's Pope that Yad Vashem should honor Pope Pius XII as a "Righteous Gentile", and documents that Pius was praised by all the leading Jews of his day for his role in saving more Jews than Oskar Schindler.
Rabbi David Rosen has taken exception to the caption, stating when Pius died both Moshe Sharett and Golda Meir sent telegrams stating that when darkness reigned over Europe, he was one of the few who raised his voice in protest. "What Yad Vashem says is not necessarily wrong," conceded Rosen, "but it doesn't give us all the information." Rabbi Rosen later quoted eminent historian Martin Gilbert, who says that Pius saved thousands of Jews.[2]
References
- ^ Pensieri die Pio XII,con una nota del Card. Pietro PalazziniVicenza, 1984
- ^ Jerusalem Post article
what?
edit"For decades, Pius XII has been nominated unsuccessfully for recognition as Righteous Among the Nations"..
what is the source for this as in the article there is only Dalin's nomination of 2005? where are the other nominations 'for decades'?
And if there where no 'formal nominations' that it means that Pius XII never was 'nominated unsuccessfully for recognition'... the text should be more clear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.153.140.144 (talk) 11:34, 17 April 2012 (UTC)