“Nonetheless, he remained silent. He was woefully ambiguous in the Christmas message, and two months earlier, in an exchange of memos with Myron Taylor, the American special envoy to the Vatican, he refused to verify the reports he had already heard.”
Though the Vatican itself may not have been able to back-up its (mostly silent) stance against the Nazi killing machine, his sharing intel with the Americans might have helped to produce some greater sense of urgency on their part as to how increasingly bad things really were “on the ground” in Europe. He could have done so without comprising his sources.
A stance of Neutrality by the chief Christian organ in the world, in the face of indisputable evil, I believe, was an act of evil in itself.
“I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”
First they came for the Nazis And I did not speak out Because I was not a Nazi
Then they came for the Antisemites And I did not speak out
Because I was not an Antisemite Then they came for Hamas...
“Nonetheless, he remained silent. He was woefully ambiguous in the Christmas message, and two months earlier, in an exchange of memos with Myron Taylor, the American special envoy to the Vatican, he refused to verify the reports he had already heard.”
Though the Vatican itself may not have been able to back-up its (mostly silent) stance against the Nazi killing machine, his sharing intel with the Americans might have helped to produce some greater sense of urgency on their part as to how increasingly bad things really were “on the ground” in Europe. He could have done so without comprising his sources.
A stance of Neutrality by the chief Christian organ in the world, in the face of indisputable evil, I believe, was an act of evil in itself.
“I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”
Revelations 3:15-16