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What thinkest ye of Christ, Macabi? BAM
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Edith Stein – A victim of Pius XII’s silence? "In April 1933 a communication reached Pope Pius XI from Germany expressing grave concern about the Nazis’ anti-Semitic aims and requesting the Supreme Pontiff to issue an encyclical on the Jewish question. The letter was written by the philosopher, Dr. Edith Stein, a Jewish convert to Catholicism and later known as Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce of the Order of the Carmelites (117). Edith Stein’s request was not granted. Nine years later, in August 1942, the Gestapo removed her from a Dutch monastery, where she had sought refuge, and sent her to Auschwitz to be gassed." Lewy, G., "The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany", Weidenfeld Goldbacks, 1968, 295-296. 117) Cf. Hilda Graef, Lebin unter dem Kreuz: Eine Studie uber Edith Stein (Frankfurt a.M., 1954), p.130." Ibid., 399. What adds extra interest to the foregoing is that at the same time that Edith Stein’s request for an encyclical was refused, Cardinal Pacelli (the future Pius XII) was assisting Hitler to absolute power in Germany. Thus: "When he was still the Papal Nuntius in Munich he had asked the Centre Party (Zentrumspartei) to support the Nazis, because they wanted a Concordat for the Reich. It was because of his pressure that the Christian- Socialist Party voted for the Law of Empowerment (Erm
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