(19)    Mon 27 Oct 97 10:29
By: Don Martin
To: Nancy Ferguson
Re: Mr.Quarella, RE:Rome&Hitl
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Nancy Ferguson said "Mr.Quarella, RE:Rome&Hitl" to Steve Quarrella, adding:

 NF> Pope Pius XII chose to keep the Church neutral during the was and
 NF> refused to condemn anything done by the Nazis.  Would not such a
 NF> choice be viewed by the rest of the world as support--especially
 NF> given that there *HAD* been a treaty signed and the encyclical
 NF> denouncing the treaty had to be smuggled into Germany and, once read,
 NF> was virtually ignored?

    This could be call the existential paradox (at least it was in
reading the Existentialists that I first became aware of it):
nonaction is itself an action. As this case clearly shows, the
nonaction is a choice, and that choice has consequences. All that
evil people need is acquiescence: they will manage the rest. Pius
XII chose to do nothing, and his choice amounted to tacit approval
for Hitler's actions. As Steve has suggested, Pius XII's predecessor
appeared to be on the verge of taking a stronger moral stance
against Hitler, but he croaked. Had he not been so ill, the history
of 1939-45 might well be very different.

... Through a Jaundiced Eye Darkly--Rheum With a View
             (don@balt-rehab.med.va.gov)

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