Vatican cardinal's blood libel: "I think of the ‘massacre of the innocents’. Children are dying in Gaza"

You're a Roman Catholic? Ha, ha, ha. Oh Christ, might you be the former "fairuzfan?"

This is the President of the Vatican Council for Culture. You should commend Mr. Spencer for standing up against a spokesman for his own church rather than say "this career cardinal does not speak for the Catholic Church" or presumably for the Vatican itself.

My point was precisely that this cardinal is NOT a spokesman for the catholic church. He is part of the Curia and heads a department in the Vatican. That does not give him the authority to speak on behalf of the church. His views are his own.
Only the Pope with or without the college of bishops has the authority in the catholic church to apply the Gospel to any particular situation.
As for Robert Spencer I have no reservation in applauding his speaking out.

The Pope must read the riot act to Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi and take his red Cardinal's hat and throw it in the Tiber.

Catholics and Christians aren't alone when it comes to bigoted clerics. Here is a quote by the former Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Ovadia Yosef. This is what he said in the Jerusalem Post on Octber 18, 2010.

Yosef: Gentiles exist only to serve Jews

By JONAH MANDEL

Jerusalem Post

LAST UPDATED: 10/18/2010
According to Rabbi, the lives of non-Jews in Israel are safeguarded by divinity, to prevent losses to Jews.

The sole purpose of non-Jews is to serve Jews, according to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the head of Shas’s Council of Torah Sages and a senior Sephardi adjudicator.

“Goyim were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel,” he said in his weekly Saturday night sermon on the laws regarding the actions non-Jews are permitted to perform on Shabbat.

According to Yosef, the lives of non-Jews in Israel are safeguarded by divinity, to prevent losses to Jews.

“In Israel, death has no dominion over them... With gentiles, it will be like any person – they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money.

This is his servant... That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew,” Yosef said.

“Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat.

That is why gentiles were created,” he added.

This old bigot has said this sort of hatred of non Jews all his miserbale life. He is a good pal of Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders.

Where was the outrage in our media over this kind of stuff from the mouth of a Chief rabbi of Jerusalem?

I believe Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is the former Sephardic Chief Rabbi in Israel, not the former Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. Rabbi Yosef speaks for the political party Shas, as well as for himself, his followers and his own peculiar theology. Rabbi Yosef also supported the murderous Olso accords, "land for peace," and similar folly. He's been widely condemned in Israel; by the Jewish community for his nonsensical statements and positions. Yosef is known for foolish, intemperate remarks. He speaks for himself and his party in my opinion.

http://observer.com/2006/09/what-will-shlomo-benami-say-at-cooper-union-next-week/

http://evenhandeddems.blogspot.ca/2007/02/historians-agree-israel-committed.html

"I do not think that the Vatican was ever a friend of the Jews. It runs the EU behind the scenes...

That is a pretty big delusion right there.

@Wellington,

i think you miss the point here.this is the 'offical's view',not the 'official view',until Vatican says so.i hope Vatican does not support his view.

In any case,informed catholics overwhelmingly support Israel's struggle for existence,as you're well aware.so there's no need to criticise/find fault with
catholicism, i feel.

"The real question is, did it ever leave it?".

So, jack booted Nazis parading as Catholics are now running the EU behind the scenes, are they ?

Is it simply not plausible that there are buffoons in the Catholic Church, as there are in all organizations ? Or is that too simple to be true.

What's the next theory ? That the pontiff is hiding pictures of Sasquatch beneath Saint Peters Basilica ?

How is it that a simple account of what one idiot says, becomes a world wide conspiracy ?

If a Cardinal is not a spokesman for the Catholic Church, then who is? He is pretty high up there, just one step from Pope really and you still think he does not represent the Catholic Church?

Good Christian people continue to delude yourselves, but the facts and history has proven that the Cardinal is just repeating what was official Church position (and apparently still is) when it comes to the Jews.

As to the non-Catholic Christians of the Middle East, do not expect the Vatican to shed a tear for them any time soon. They do not acknowledge the Pope and even though they are the original Christians and the first followers of Christ, the Church prefers to see Islam win in the Middle East instead of them. In other words, first the Jews have to go and second in line are the non-Catholic Christians, as far as the RCC is concerned.

This is not the case of a single buffoon. The original founders of the EU were pretty tight with the Church and the Fascist parties of Europe - and many of the present leadership of the EU are all Jesuit educated too. The Holy See has more power then people suspect and runs many agencies such as The Knights of Malta, Opus Dei and Masonic Lodges like the P2. In fact many Opus Dei and Knights of Malta operatives occupy high government posts in many nations.

I am a Catholic myself but studing the history of the Church does make one sound like a conspiracy nut but I wish I were crazy and that these things were not true. Read the famous book, "The Vicars of Christ" by Peter Da Rosa and you will get the bigger picture. An organization that has lasted 2,000 years does not do so on alms and prayer. Read history and connect the dots.

I'll call you "5b9a6". You said,

I do not think that the Vatican was ever a friend of the Jews. It runs the EU behind the scenes...

The Record of Pius XII's Opposition to Hitler

[...]

1930 Cardinal Pacelli assumes new duties. L'Osservatore Romano, which speaks the mind of the Holy Father and Church, runs a series of articles from the office of Cardinal Secretary of State severely criticizing Nazism. The October 11, 1930 article declares: "Belonging to the National Socialist Party of Hitler is irreconcilable with the Catholic Conscience." These pieces are reprinted in diocesan newspapers around the world, especially in Germany, where bishops and priests emphasize that the teaching is official Church teaching.

1932 In the 1932 German elections Catholics overwhelmingly reject Hitler with less than 15% of Catholics voting for him. But with strong support from other constituencies in Germany, this election makes the Nazis a major party and leads directly to Hitler assuming total power.

[...]

The Concordat: "Damned if you do, damned if you don't." Under intense pressure from Hitler, including terrorizing members of the Catholic Center Party, Pacelli agrees to negotiate a legal agreement between Germany and the Holy See. The agreement, called a concordat, is a clever propaganda stunt by Hitler. Simply by asking the Church to negotiate, Hitler makes himself look good. Pacelli does not trust Hitler, but wants a legal basis on which to protest. Without a concordat there will be no legal grounds to appeal Nazi encroachments on the Church's freedom. The concordat defines Church rights within the greater rights of the State. Despite misgivings the concordat seems wise at the time. Cardinal Faulhaber of Munich comments: "With the concordat we are hanged, without the concordat we are hanged, drawn and quartered."

Back in Rome, Pacelli tells the British ambassador: "I had to choose between an agreement and the virtual elimination of the Catholic Church in the Reich." He says a pistol had been held to his head, and that he felt he was negotiating "with the devil himself."

Pacelli begins to make numerous formal protests against the extreme anti-Semitism of Nazism. According to Jewish scholar and historian Jeno Levai, while Secretary of State, Pacelli oversees "the dispatch of sixty notes in which the Vatican protested to Hitler against the persecution of the Jews up to the outbreak of war."

[...]

1937 Cardinal Pacelli drafts the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge, issued in March by Pope Pius XI. It condemns Nazi racism and worship of the state in the Church's most authoritative form of teaching. It infuriates the Nazis, who respond with more persecution of Catholics.

In Dresden, Jewish intellectual Victor Klemperer records in his diary for May 22 the observation that "the papal pastoral," although banned in Germany, is being passed around by hand like a chain letter. Everyone seems to be reading it, he notes. Count Claus von Stauffenberg (a Catholic who will be executed because of his role in a 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler) reads the encyclical and finds his doubts about Nazism confirmed.

1938 In a formal state visit to Italy, Hitler comes to Rome. Pius XI expresses sorrow and outrage at Mussolini's invitation. "To honor a cross [the swastika] which is not Christ's in the Eternal City" the Pope says, is an unhappy sign of Mussolini's "old anticlericalism." He refuses to meet Hitler.

[...]

1939 January 9, 1939. Cardinal Pacelli sends messages to the archbishops of the world asking them to try to persuade their governments to throw open their doors to the hundreds of thousands of Jews who are seeking to escape from German persecution. The next day he writes to American Cardinals asking them to intercede for exiled Jewish professors and scientists.

March 2, 1939. Cardinal Pacelli is elected Pope. He prays that he will be the Pope of Peace and calls on nations to avoid war at all costs. Calls for a peace conference at the Vatican to prevent war. The major powers are not willing to attend.

[...]

October 20. Pius XII issues his first encyclical, Summi Pontificatus, concerned with the oneness of human beings. In paragraph 48, dealing with the Church's openness to all, it describes St. Paul's vision of "the new man who is renewed unto knowledge, according to the image of Him that created him. Where there is neither Gentile nor Jew." The Nazis are furious.

The French are so pleased that they print 70,000 copies and have them dropped over Germany.

October 28. The New York Times sums it up in a headline, "Pope Condemns Dictators, Treaty Violators, Racism: Urges Restoring of Poland."

[...]

A group of high German officers opposed to Hitler plot to overthrow him and end the war. They secretly approach Pius XII and ask for help. The Pope, in an act that could cost him his life if discovered, agrees to contact the British and relay the desire of the Germans to open discussions which could lead to peace and prevent millions of deaths. The Pope contacts the British, but they are not interested in talking with any Germans, even Hitler opponents.

Pius XII orders publication of a large volume (565 pages). The Persecution of the Catholic Church in the Third Reich, in London (by Burns and Oates). It is a translation from the German of eye-witness accounts of the merciless Nazi program to crush the Church. It contains pastoral letters by many German bishops, and also reveals close cooperation between Catholics and Jews. On March 11, 1940 Pius confronts Foreign Minister Ribbentrop, concerning Nazi crimes in Poland against Poles and Jews. This heated confrontation is reported in the New York Times of March 14, 1940 under the headline: "Pope Is Emphatic About Just Peace: Jews' Rights Defended"

After Germany defeats France, additional thousands of Jews face seizure and deportation by Nazis. Pius XII sends a secret letter to Catholic bishops of Europe entitled Opere et Caritate ("By Work and by Love"). It instructs bishops to help all who are suffering racial discrimination at the hands of the Nazis. They are told to read the letter in their churches to remind their faithful that racism is "incompatible with the teachings of the Catholic Church."

[...]

1941 From the beginning of the war Vatican Radio has been regarded by the Nazis as anti-German, and Germans have been forbidden to listen to it. Now the order to arrest, imprison, even execute, anyone caught listening to it is more vigorously enforced.

On March 30 and 31, Vatican radio begins special broadcasts to France and Spain, speaking of "the wickedness of Hitler" and denounces Nazi racial theories and lies, "which have reached scandalous proportions."

[...]

December 25, New York Times editorial: "The voice of Pius XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness enveloping Europe this Christmas." Pius, according to the Times, has "placed himself squarely against Hitlerism."

[...]

March 9, 1942—a Vatican official in Slovakia warns of "an atrocious plan" to deport 80,000 Jews. Cardinal Maglione, Secretary of State, sends a strong note of protest. Slovak officials ignore the protest, saying the Jews are being sent "to work."

August 6, New York Times headline: "Pope is Said to Plead for Jews Listed for Removal from France."

Also in August, in Toulouse, France, Archbishop Jules Gerard Saliege's pastoral letter, which French police know about and demand that he withdraw, is sent to and read in all churches in his dioceses: "There is a Christian morality that confers rights and imposes duties: frightful things are taking place. The Jews are our brothers. They belong to mankind. No Christian can dare to forget that!"

The BBC broadcasts news of this. L’Osservatore Romano praises Saliege as a hero of religious courage. Vatican Radio broadcasts the letter and comments for four successive days. (As soon as the war is over. Pope Pius makes Saliege a Cardinal.)

In June in the diocese of Montauban Bishop Pierre-Marie Theas reminds Catholics: "I express the outrage of my Christian conscience. The present anti-Semitic measures mock human dignity and violate the most sacred rights of the human person and family."

In July, Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard of Paris and all the cardinals and bishops of France sign a joint protest to the Vichy government against the deportations.

Under direct instructions from the Pope, L'Osservatore Romano and Vatican Radio give full reports on all such actions.

In Holland and Belgium, bishops, "acting in consort with the Holy Father," denounce the "barbarous deportation of Jews." Results are tragic, especially in Holland. In Amsterdam, after 18,000 workers walk off their jobs to protest Nazi persecution, the Germans declare martial law and enforce it so brutally that the strike is crushed in three days.

There are more protests by Dutch bishops than anywhere else in Western Europe, yet a larger percentage of Jews in Holland are lost than anywhere else in the West. Some 100,000, or 80% of the entire Jewish population in the country, were killed by the Nazis.

August 27, New York Times: "Vichy Seizes Jews: Pope Pius Ignored."

Developments in France, Belgium and Holland produce a massive and scornful counter action from Goebbels' Propaganda Ministry. Ten million copies of a pamphlet attacking "the present pro-Jewish Pope," whose actions have caused "a lack of confidence in him in the Catholic world," were published and distributed by the Nazi Propaganda Minister.

October 11, Times of London editorial reports: "A study of the words which Pope Pius XII has addressed since his accession leaves no room for doubt. He condemns the worship of force and its concrete manifestation in the suppression of national liberties and the persecution of the Jewish race."

[...]

In Germany's Reich Main Security Office, the SS control center, a careful analysis of the message is filed:"The Pope has repudiated the National Socialist New European Order. His speech is one long attack on everything we stand for. God, he says, regards all peoples and races as worthy of the same consideration. Here he is clearly speaking in behalf of the Jews and makes himself the mouthpiece of the Jewish war criminals."

1943 On February 19, Vatican Radio condemns deportations and forced labor, saying "the curse of God" will fall on those who do these things to human beings.

June 2, 1943, Pope addresses the College of Cardinals: "our soul reacts with particular emotion and pressing concern to the prayers of those who turn to us with anxious eyes of pleading, in travail because of their nationality or their race, before greater catastrophes and ever more acute and serious sorrows, and destined without any fault of their own, to exterminating harassments." He regularly uses the Latin word for race, stirps, a term commonly used to refer to those of Jewish descent. L’Osservatore Romano and Vatican Radio, as usual, give full coverage to the talk. German and Italian newspapers report the talk but omit the Pope's reference to race.

June, 1943: Vatican Radio in a broadcast to France: "He who distinguishes between Jews and other men is unfaithful to God and is in conflict with God's command."

On June 21 it broadcasts to Germany on the rights of Jews under natural law. A few days later it broadcasts to Germany a defense of Yugoslav Jews: "Every man bears the stamp of God."

Pius asks Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo, Nuncio to Germany, to try to talk directly with Hitler about the persecution of Jews. After delays, Orsenigo is summoned to Berchtesgaden where Hitler receives him. The meeting observes the diplomatic amenities until Orsenigo brings up "the Jewish question." Hitler immediately turns his back, grabs a glass from the table and smashes it on the floor.

October 16. The Gestapo seizes 1007 Jews in Rome. Pius vigorously protests to German authorities. The Germans refuse to release those already seized, but stop additional mass round-ups. Approximately eighty-five percent of Roman Jews escape the Nazis, many finding refuge in Church buildings Pius had ordered opened to shelter them.

October 17, New York Times headline: "Pope Said to Help in Ransoming Jews."

December 4, New York Times headline: "Vatican Scores Germans: Denounces Decision to Intern and Strip All Jews in Italy."

1944 June 25, Pope sends open telegram to leader of Hungary pleading with him not to allow deportation of Jews.

July 21, the World Jewish Congress writes to the Pope "gratefully conscious" of his "aid on behalf of sorely afflicted and menaced Jews in Hungary, which have been followed by offer of the Regent to secure release of certain categories of Jews particularly children. His Holiness' efforts bring us new hope at the eleventh hour of saving from death the surviving remnants of decimated European Jewry."

[...]

August. Worried about Jewish captives in the hands of Germans in Northern Italy the Pope speaks: "For centuries they have been most unjustly treated and despised. It is time they were treated with justice and humanity. God wills it and the Church wills it. St. Paul tells us that the Jews are our brothers. Instead of being treated as strangers they should be welcomed as friends."

[...]

1946 August 3 In speaking with a delegation from the Supreme Council of the Arab People of Palestine desiring his support in their struggle with Jews, the Holy Father said: "It is superfluous for me to tell you that we disapprove of all recourse to force and violence, from wheresoever it comes, just as we condemned on various occasions in the past that fanatical anti-Semitism inflicted on the Hebrew people."

Thanks for the history lesson traeh.

I found it fascinating and enlightening.

You repeated your lie: 'Israel has hardly had an unblemished record, and not just with its treatment of Palestinians'

There are no Palestinians, because there never has been a State of Palestine with its own unique culture and history.

Produce your historical evidence! Here's mine.

"The Arabs themselves cannot be considered but temporary residents. They pitched their tents in its grazing fields or built their places of refuge in its ruined cities. They created nothing in it. Since they were strangers to the land, they never became its masters. The desert wind that brought them hither could one day carry them away without their leaving behind them any sign of their passage through it".

- Comments concerning the Arabs in Palestine in the 1800s -

You're a lying clown!

Thank you Davegreybeard. That article was a history lesson for me, too.

I'll call you "3dood" for short. You said,

I love reading here but the church has ALWAYS supported the murder of jews anywhere they can be murdered.

I'm no Catholic, and I don't have a problem with reasonably criticizing the Church, but your statement is irresponsible and vicious slander, and no more accurate than if I were to say "3dood ALWAYS lies." If your statement about the Church were true, Jews in Europe would not have survived the Middle Ages. As further proof that your statement is slander, have a look at this comment above.

Rest assured that the regulars here have well and truly 'got the number' of this ygm character who was linking to the unsavoury margolis and equally unsavoury rockwell.

Seeing him link *that* tells us all we need to know about him.

kathyshaidle, thank you for pointing out that YGM (for short) is citing as evidence a 9/11 truther (Margolis).

Hey YGM, are you a 9/11 truther?

Yeah, he's our current troll - not to worry! He's got his head so far up his a$$ that I doubt anyone even followed the links. As soon as I saw his nic, I dismissed them.

Oh you mean, "Hitler's Pope" who had been working behind the scenes in Germany for years before Hitler came to power (there are even photos of him when he was Nuncio sitting down in conference with all the Nazi bigwigs) and his faithful Germany maid which he took back to the Vatican with him?

And the encyclical, that is the Vatican PR machine in high gear for you - smoke and mirrors propaganda but the facts speak for themselves. Propaganda coupled with Orwellian doublespeak where war means peace, you get the picture. The Sacred Congregation for Propagation of the Faith (the Propaganda) was established for this purpose in 1622. Why even that master of PR, Edward Bernays, acknowledged the debt owed to the Catholic Church who taught the world the art of propaganda (Public Relations in modern parlance) that is the art of manipulating the masses to believe that white is black and black is white and anything else no matter how implausible if repeated enough times.

All the encyclicals in the world do not change the fact that the Vatican has always been the overt and covert agitator against the Jews. From the Inquisition, pogroms and the ghettoization of the Jews in Europe and their eventual expulsion from the Catholic lands of Spain, Portugal and Sicily and providing Nazi criminals with passport so they can escape to South America through the Vatican ratlines. Or how about Catholic bishops and other high ranking Church officials hobnobbing with Nazis and Croatian Ustasi and giving the Nazi salute – and even participating in the killings and beheading of Orthodox Serbs - there are plenty of photographs of these to remove anyone’s doubt as to where the Vatican sympathies lies. Is it any wonder then that they consistently come out in favour of Islam, if not in words then in deeds?

Most people are not even aware that the Church has a big hand in spreading Islam around the world, with the Jesuits run organizations assisting Muslims to settle in the West and get access to welfare benefits etc. mainly for Somalis. It is done very openly in some places, with the illegal immigrants coming in by boats from North Africa towards Europe using satellite phones to give their positions to priests and members of the Jesuit Refugee Services who in turn phone to arrange for naval patrol boat rescues and coordinate their landings.

One believes what is dished out by the Church PR machine at one’s own peril.

"One believes what is dished out by the Church PR machine at one’s own peril."

Oh the satanic brilliance of the "Church PR machine", which was able to recruit for its evil works people like Golda Meir, Chief Rabbi of Rome, Chief Rabbi of Israel, President of Israel, Albert Einstein, our own Robert Spencer (see www.jihadwatch.org/2012/11/rabbi-islamization-of-europe-a-good-thing.html)
not to mention hundreds of thousands of Jews who survived the holocaust hidden in and cared for in catholic cloisters, churches and homes all over Europe on direct orders of "Hitler's pope"

Hey exlax, you're making suppositories about the Judeo-Nazi State. It was Islam who befriended the Nazis when it saw a chance to murder Jews wholesale.

You're a clown!

Why yes, yes he is. Which is why he needs to be ignored. He offers nothing.

Hey YGM, are you a 9/11 truther?

Is the Pope Catholic?

Our DNA-replicating troll blurted out:

Oh you mean, "Hitler's Pope" ...

There's a book that definitively refutes this revisionist history about Pius XII. It's called The Pius war: responses to the critics of Pius XII (2004), by J. Bottum and (it should be noted, Rabbi) David G. Dalin.

Chapter One is available for free at Google Books:

http://books.google.com/books?id=T9yWKphWAewC&lpg=PP1&dq=Rabbi%20David%20G.%20Dalin&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q=Rabbi%20David%20G.%20Dalin&f=false

Here's a taste (page 14, chapter one) of the solid evidence Rabbi Dalin brings to the table to refute that (all too commonly believed) canard:

"Curiously, nearly everyone pressing this line today -- from the ex-seminarians John Cornwell and Gary Wills -- to the ex-priest James Carroll -- is a lapsed or angry Catholic. For Jewish leaders of a previous generation, this campaign against Pius XII would have been a source of shock. During and after the war, many well-known Jews -- Albert Einstein, Golda Meir, Moshe Sharrett, Isaac Herzog, and innumerable others -- publicly expressed their gratitude to Pius. In his 1967 book Three Popes and the Jews, the diplomat Pinchas Lapide (who served as Israeli consul in Milan and interviewed Italian Holocaust survivors) declared the Church under Pius "was instrumental in saving at least 700,000, but probably as many as 860,000 Jews from certain death at Nazi hands."

By the way, the Introduction in the above-linked book has an excellent overview of the development of the revisionist myth itself over the past 40 years.

Correction.

The Muslims who killed Rivka Holzberger and her unborn baby were, of course, Pakistani Muslims, not Arab Muslims.

That killing, by a non-Arab Muslim thousands of miles away from Israel, makes nonsense of the idea that Muslims hate and kill Jews because of the existence of the modern Jewish state of Israel or because of anything that Israel has or has not done or is claimed (mostly falsely) to have done or not done.

Muslims hate Jews because they have always been taught to hate them, from the very beginnings of Islam. Israel is hated like poison because it is full of uppity non-dhimmi Jews who are ruling themselves instead of being ruled by Muslim lords and masters.

In the late 15th century, when Jews in North Africa (whose presence there long pre-dated the arrival of Islam) were a small, defenceless, terrorised dhimmi minority, a prominent Muslim 'cleric' called Al-Maghili taught his 'flock' that "Love of the Prophet [mohammed] requires hatred of Jews".

Just because some individual righteous members of the Catholic clergy, nuns and priests and even lay person helped save some Jews from the Nazis, this does in no way atone for or exhonorate the Vatican for hundreds of years of Jew-baiting and the thousands they helped murder. You mention some high ranking Jews who thought the Vatican was honky dory but what choice did they have at that time - Stockholme syndrome perhaps, the phenomenon where you love and support those that kill and persecute you.

And the Pius came out in favour of the Jews close to the end of the war is no surprise either, he could see which way the wind was blowing and wanted to come up smelling like roses. Vatican PR machine can ghost write all the books they want, that does not convince many people, including me, an ex Catholic. Why my father remembered when in Church they used to pray for the conversion of those 'perfidious Jews' (notice they did not pray for the conversion of the perfidious Muslims).

“… satan, the god of this world and the prince and power of the air does blind them and lead them in ignorance away from the Truth.”

Really?

No God here on earth, just satan “the prince and power of the air”?

Well, if you belive that guess that’s why you love death more than life.

It’s a chore for sure, but I’ll oblige you if you insist.

My respondent obviously didn't read the evidence I gave him; though if he had read it, it probably wouldn't make much difference.

You make the bizarre claim that I made a bizarre claim about historic...etc etc.

Sheesh, man.

Learn to read

Don't forget to mention Castel Gandolfo (the Papal Summer residence), which sheltered 3000 Jews. Pacelli (Pius XII) is a righteous gentile.

That's no way to talk to a lady, man. Take your own advice, and get literate.