Should Israel seek to put Pope Pius xii and Hitler on trial posthumously?
Because Pius did all he could do to help the jewish people. When Pius was still Cardinal Pacelli, he was very outspoken against the Nazis. On April 28, 1935, four years before the War even started, Pacelli gave a speech that aroused the attention of the world press. Speaking to an audience of 250,000 pilgrims in Lourdes, France, the future Pius XII stated that the Nazis “are in reality only miserable plagiarists who dress up old errors with new tinsel. It does not make any difference whether they flock to the banners of social revolution, whether they are guided by a false concept of the world and of life, or whether they are possessed by the superstition of a race and blood cult.” It was talks like this, in addition to private remarks and numerous notes of protest that Pacelli sent to Berlin in his capacity as Vatican Secretary of State, that earned him a reputation as an enemy of the Nazi party. Former Israeli diplomat and now Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Pinchas Lapide states that Pius XI
