The KGB's Assault On The Holy See

The Myth of Hitler's Pope is just one of many ways in which the KGB sought to discredit the Holy See, according to a new and excellent article from the National Review Online. The article has far-reaching implications, and actually connects a lot of dots.

Here is the article: Moscow’s Assault on the Vatican

Here is the opening section of the article:

The Soviet Union was never comfortable living in the same world with the Vatican. The most recent disclosures document that the Kremlin was prepared to go to any lengths to counter the Catholic Church’s strong anti-Communism.

In March 2006 an Italian parliamentary commission concluded “beyond any reasonable doubt that the leaders of the Soviet Union took the initiative to eliminate the pope Karol Wojtyla,” in retaliation for his support to the dissident Solidarity movement in Poland. In January 2007, when documents disclosed that the newly appointed archbishop of Warsaw, Stanislaw Wielgus, had collaborated with Poland’s Communist-era political police, he admitted the accusation and resigned. The following day the rector of Krakow’s Wawel Cathedral, the burial site of Polish kings and queens, resigned for the same reason. Then it was learned that Michal Jagosz, a member of the Vatican’s tribunal considering sainthood for the late Pope John Paul II, has been accused of being a former Communist secret police agent; according to the Polish media, he had been recruited in 1984 before leaving Poland for an assignment to the Vatican. Currently, a book is about to be published that will identify 39 other priests whose names have been found in Krakow secret police files, some of whom are now bishops. Moreover, this seems to be just scratching the surface. A special commission will soon start investigating the past of all religious servants during the Communist era, as thousands more Catholic priests throughout that country are believed to have collaborated with the secret police. And this is just Poland — the archives of the KGB and those of the political police in the rest of the former Soviet bloc have yet to be opened on the subject of operations against the Vatican.

Catholic News Agency has this article on the same topic: KGB intent on linking Pius XII with Nazis, says former spy

Please take the time to read this article and share your thoughts and insights.

You may also be interested in this article: How Pius XII Protected Jews

Comments

[Qualis Rex]

A telling, but not very PC joke about the Holocaust:

3 Jewish men who were hidden in the Vatican during the Holocaust are asked by an interviewer on how they felt about Pius XII saving them. The first says, "I will always be grateful. It took him such courage." The second one says, "Of course I'm glad I was hidden, but since I never saw him, I think it was only because of some exceptional priests who wanted to help." Finally, the third looks casually at the interviewer and says, "I was planning to hide there anyway."

[Dude]

I'll bet this or the book referred to will not be front page news at the New York Times and all of the other pinko-rags. However, when they thought the charges against Pope Pious XII were legit...newcycle time.

[JMC]

If you ask me, this confirms the tale told in "AA 1029", a thought-provoking book that I highly recommend.

[Joseph D'Hippolito]

The Soviet Union was never comfortable living in the same world with the Vatican...

WELL, GEE, YA THINK?!?!?

I mean, the Soviet Union was merely an imperialistic, totalitarian power governed by self-beknighted utopians indoctrinated with atheistic Marxism. Why wouldn't it feel comfortable with the Vatican in the same neighborhood?

Now, on a more serious note...

Why shouldn't Islam feel comfortable with the Vatican in the same neighborhood?

And what would Muslim power-mongers do to Vatican officials, highly placed bishops or even a pope?

Think about that one, guys. Think about it seriously.

[Beleif is not proof]

How can you beleive this nonsense, and how can you follow a pope who suposedly has no possesions and fact and SCIENCE has proven that as a child, Ratzinger was one of the child police, he sold his freinds and his own parents out to the nazis and he was one of them, first of all how the hell could you follow a murderer and second of all, THE BIBLE IS A BOOK, not solid proof of anything!

[Thomistic]

Science has proven Ratzinger was one of the "child police"? That statement is ridiculous on many levels. The first level is that science hasn't proven any such thing. The second is that even if such rubbish were true, it wouldn't be proven by science, but rather, by historical documents.

I challenge you to prove any of your silly assertions.

It takes more faith to belief all the things you seem to have bought into hook, line, and sinker than to believe in Christianity.

People who run around hurling baseless accusations rooted in silly rumors spread by hateful, ignorant people, without any evidentiary support, should not be chastising Christians about needing proof to believe in the Bible.

Pax,

Thomistic