IS STILL AT THE SAME SUSIIII 11410 LOCATION WITH THE SAME SUSHI CHEFS Japanese Cuisine & Sushi Bar The best sushi in town and the best prices! Featuring: Catholics — that lays the ground- work for Pius XII's dubious record toward the Jews during the war. Clearly, what was desperately needed during the war was a clear condemna- tion from the Vatican leadership of the Nazis' Final Solution as reports of atroc- ities began trickling out of Germany and Eastern Europe. Instead, Cornwell depicts a pope who was not ready to fully accept the information and who, whenever it came time for forceful pub- lic action, chose to rationalize inactivity on the grounds that to be strong would cause even greater harm. Coming together to produce this papal response were several factors, the most significant being Pacelli's lifelong obsession with identifying people of God with papal allegiance, as mani- fested in his centralizing efforts. Cornwell argues this was critical for reducing Pacelli's sense of responsibili- ty for the Jews. It was the prism through which Pius XII viewed wartime events. Together with other assumptions and goals that Pius XII held dear — including his aim to unite Christians under papal leadership, his desire to be a peacemaker at the end of the war and his hatred and fear of commu- nism — these factors affected his reac- tions toward Nazi activities in Eastern and Southern Europe. What could the pope have accom- plished had he been bold and forth- right? At the very least he could have provided an alert for Jews in many places as to the true dangers that lay before them. Cornwell demonstrates that the pope could have been a force to diminish atrocities committed by the Fascists against Serbs and Jews in Croatia. And in Rome, his refusal to speak out may have prevented many Jews from being saved. Cornwell asserts that the pope remained silent out of fear that a com- munist uprising in Rome would result if the Nazis left too soon. There is no doubt that Catholics and Catholic clergy all over Europe saved many thousands of Jews, including me. The story of Roncalli in Istanbul (later to be Pope John XXIII) is but one. And it may well be that Pius XII's secret activities played a role in these activities on behalf of Jews at risk. Cornwell, however, starkly and con- vincingly makes the case that saving Jews was never a central part of the thinking, the strategy or the theology of Pius XII. And what was necessary to HITTER'S POPE on page 76 The Pope's Proclamation Author/journalist John Cornwell has written on Catholic issues for many publications around the world. According to his new book, Hitler's Pope, Eugenio Pacelli helped shape a new ideology of unprece- dented papal power. He was elect- ed, as Pope Pius XII, on March 3, 1939, and died on Oct 12, 1958. While the Second Vatican Council appeared to have reversed his ideology of absolute papal control in the mid-'60s by encouraging collegiality and local discretion, Cornwall concludes that in the latter half of the cur- rent pope's reign, the papal poli- cies of Pius XII have re-emerged. He predicts a titanic ideological struggle in the Catholic Church when Pope John Paul II dies. Here is an excerpt from Hitler's Pope, beginning with Pope Pius XI's famous and only statement on the Holocaust during the war, a statement he later claimed to be a clear denunciation of the Nazi extermination of the Jewish people: Humanity owes this vow [to bring society back to its immovable center of gravity in divine law] to those hundreds of thousands who, without any fault of their own, sometimes only by reason of their nationality or race, are marked down for death or gradual extinction. ... Pacelli's single breach of self- imposed silence on the liquida- tion of the Jews was an ambigu- ous sentence during his Christmas 1942 broadcast. ... ... Clearly, the exhibition of ambiguous language was intended to placate those who urged him to protest, while avoiding offense to the Nazi regime. But these consid- erations are overshadowed by the implicit denial and trivialization. He had scaled down the doomed millions to "hundreds of thou- sands" and expunged the word "Jews," making the pointed quali- fication "sometimes only" Nowhere was the term "Nazi" or "Nazi Germany' mentioned. Hitler himself could not have wished for a more convoluted and innocuous reaction from the Vicar of Christ to the greatest crime in PROCLAMATION on page 76 ■ Daily Specials ■ ■ Tempura & Teriyaki Fresh Fish Delivered Daily ■ Party Trays r (248) 471-4363 h Tar". 30 03 W. 12 Mile Rd., Farmington Hills 7 $30 02 min. (just east of Orchard Lake Rd.) 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