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Supporters of Pope Pius XII, the wartime pontiff who is being out on the road to sainthood, on Tuesday denied an allegation by an Italian historian that he had turned a blind eye to the deportation of over a thousand Jews from Rome in the autumn of 1943. This week Giuseppe Casarrubea, the author of a series of books on fascism and the Mafia, said allegations that the wartime Pope Pius XII did not raise his voice against the Holocaust because he was more concerned about Communism were supported by documents in the National Archives at Kew. Mr Casarrubea said a telegram to the State Department dated October 19, 1943, from Harold Tittmann, the US Ambassador to the Holy See, on his audience with…
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Richard Williamson, the Catholic Bishop soon to face trial in Germany on charges of denying the Holocaust, is apparently unrepentant, allegedly telling colleagues recently it was a “huge lie” that six million Jews were murdered by the Nazis.
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Krakow, Poland, Jan 29, 2010 / 08:11 pm (CNA).- Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Tadeusz Pieronek of Sosnoviec, Poland, has roundly denied having referred to the Holocaust as “a Jewish invention.” Regarding what he called “a complete misunderstanding,” he explained that the Italian website “Pontifex,” which quoted him for an article this week, clearly failed to capture his meaning.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned of the dangers of taking a “casual
attitude” to human life in a message for National Holocaust Memorial Day.
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VATICAN CITY (RNS) A Polish Catholic bishop who has been denounced for calling the Holocaust a “Jewish invention” distanced himself from the statement on Tuesday (Jan. 26), saying that he had been misunderstood.
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AP – Pope Benedict XVI has marked Holocaust Remembrance Day by denouncing the “horror” of the Shoah and the “unheard of brutality” of death camps created by Nazi Germany.
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AFP – Almost seven decades since Nazi Germany decimated Poland’s Jews in death camps like the notorious Auschwitz, Europe’s former Jewish heartland is reconnecting with a lost part of its identity.
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Pope Benedict XVI, and Jewish leaders aired one main point of contention: whether the church did enough against the Holocaust.
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In a synagogue visit haunted by history, Pope Benedict XVI and Jewish leaders sparred Sunday over the record of the World War II-era pope, Pius XII, during the Holocaust and agreed on the need to strengthen Catholic-Jewish relations.
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Article’s topics: Holocaust, Shoah, Nazis Father Patrick Desbois believes that many more than six million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, and he can prove it. Through interviews with more than 1,200 witnesses, Desbois has uncovered upwards of
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: 1906-1945 by Ferdinand Schlingensiepen. T & T Clark. 432 pages. There is something about the history of Germany before and during the last War that continues to haunt us. Perhaps it is the spectacle of a highly civilised, modern
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A California appeals court dismissed a lawsuit against the Vatican bank seeking restitution for Holocaust survivors who said the bank stored and laundered millions of dollars worth of assets looted by a Nazi-backed regime in Croatia.
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(AP) – VATICAN CITY – An American appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit by Holocaust survivors who allege the Vatican Bank accepted millions of dollars of their valuables stolen by Nazi sympathizers. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco upheld a lower court ruling that said the Vatican Bank was immune from such a lawsuit under the 1976…
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AFP – The founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center voiced dismay and disappointment Monday at weekend Vatican moves to raise controversial wartime pope Pius XII to sainthood.
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The brazen pre-dawn theft of one of the Holocaust’s most chilling and notorious symbols sparked outrage from around the world.
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By Helen Pidd, The Guardian
A British bishop has been fined €12,000 after a German court found him guilty of denying the Holocaust.
Richard
Williamson received a letter today from the court in the Bavarian city
of Regensburg informing him that he was being fined for incitement over
his claim on Swedish television that fewer than 300,000 Jews died in
Nazi death camps.
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(RNS) Religious leaders are urging their colleagues and politicians to keep comparisons to Nazism and the Holocaust out out of American public policy debates. The Interfaith Alliance responded to a recent onslaught of references to Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust, particularly as an analogy to the current discussion on health…
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Quote: GERMAN prosecutors have filed a complaint against a British bishop, Richard Williamson, for inciting racial hatred after he said “not one Jew” was killed in Nazi gas chambers. Bishop Williamson sparked controversy in January when he gave
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