By News Agencies: Peres urges Pope to ignore row over Pius XII and visit Israel
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Title:#12 Michael F (continued)
Name:Yuhannon
City: Las VegasState: NV, USA
The New York Times editorial for Christmas 1941 said: "Pius XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness enveloping Europe this Christmas."

Pius, according to the Times, had "placed himself squarely against Hitlerism."

The October 11, 1942 Editorial of the Times of London said:

"A study of the words which Pope Pius XII has addressed since his accession leaves no room for doubt. He condemns the worship of force and its concrete manifestation in the suppression of national liberties and the persecution of the Jewish race."

After the Pope`s 1942 Christmas broadcast to the world, the German SS analysis of his message said: "The Pope has repudiated the National Socialist New European Order. His speech is one long attack on everything we stand for. God, he says, regards all peoples and races as worthy of the same consideration. Here he is clearly speaking in behalf of the Jews and makes himself the mouthpiece of the Jewish war criminals."

Wow,such silence!