ACCORDING to this 2007 article in The Guardian, Pope Pius XII was apparently guilty of “racism:”
The Italian liberal daily La Repubblica has reported evidence to suggest that, even if the wartime pope was not anti-Semitic, he may have been colour prejudiced.
While researching a new book on the Allies’ policy towards bombing Rome, the historian Umberto Gentiloni Silveri stumbled across an intriguing telegram sent to London by the then British ambassador to the Holy See, Sir D’Arcy Osborne (later Duke of Leeds).
Dated January 26, 1944, it reported the substance of a conversation with Pope Pius XII just days after the landings at Anzio and Nettuno, south of the capital.
“The pope hopes that there will not be Allied coloured troops among the units deployed in Rome,” wrote the ambassador. Sir D’Arcy seems to have been rather bemused by the request, for – with a hint of sarcasm – he went on to say that the pontiff “had hastened to add that the Holy See has not fixed a limit to the range of colours”.
Gentiloni Silveri told La Repubblica that the pope’s “embarrassing” appeal reflected the view of the Holy See throughout the conflict: that Rome was a “symbol of Western culture … a patrimony to be entrusted to the care of the white race”.
Today, the conservative Il Giornale hit back with an article insisting Pius XII was “not in any way a racist”. But that he had good reason to fear the arrival of troops from North Africa.
“As apostolic nuncio in Bavaria, immediately after the end of the [First World] War, he had been a witness to what happened in the regions of the Rhineland and Ruhr, which were occupied by French troops,” it said.
North African soldiers were accused of numerous rapes and, although the scale of the problem was deliberately exaggerated by local people, even the French acknowledged several dozen had taken place. [bold added]
Imagine “Catholic” leaders today with their Tower-of-Babel pieties actually defending women from harm! No, they have stood by in shocking indifference while thousands of European women have been raped, molested, and murdered by “migrants.” Even worse, they have insisted the invasion of Europe continue.
In contrast, the last true pope of the Catholic Church, who remains morally the leader of the Catholic world in this extended vacancy of the see of Peter, seemingly rejected poisonous, anti-Christian, racial utopianism for the good of ordinary people.
