Benedict moves to canonize Hitler’s pope

Not content with merely dehumanizing gay people, Pope "Ratty Ratzinger" Benedict moved last week to make Pious XII a saint. Pious, also known as Hitler's Pope, was enthroned in the Vatican during Hitler’s reign. Benedictus Rectumus can try to rewrite history all he wants, but the public records are clear.

From James Carroll:

The case against Pius XII is well established: He knew early on of Hitler’s plan for the Final Solution of the “Jewish problem,” and never raised his voice against it. The Vatican counters this indictment by honoring him, for example in its 1998 declaration “We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah,” for “personally or through his representatives” having saved “hundreds of thousands of Jewish lives.” It is true that thousands of individual Catholic clergy and lay people acted independently to help Jews to survive, whether nuns in Vichy France, monks in Tuscany, or functionaries in the Vatican itself—yet they are remembered as agents of the pope, acting at his orders.

Meanwhile, Pius XII is not to be held responsible in any way for the millions of Catholics, and other Christians, who, in the absence of his challenge to conscience, either actively participated in the genocide or did nothing to inhibit it. Neither is he charged, more perplexingly, with any responsibility for those senior Catholic officials who helped run the infamous post-war “rat line,” enabling the escape of Nazi war criminals (like Adolf Eichmann) to Latin America.

One cannot be too surprised at this, coming from the rodent Pope who has remained silent on the violent legislation proposed in Uganda that imprisons gay people and anyone who does not inform on them. I’ve never credited the Catholic Church with moral authority (so they help poor people, so what? A lot of us do). The adoption of Christianity by Constantine in AD 312 and the subsequent consolidation of power by an emerging Catholic Church remains the death knell for what that religion could have been. So go ahead, canonize the Jew killer. Let thousands of ignorant men and women say prayers to Saint Pious. If he’s out of the office, Hitler can give him the message.