Word: rome
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...German playwright: Could Pope Pius XII have done more to save six million European Jews from extermination during World War II? Six books have explored the thesis that by remaining silent he became an accomplice to genocide. The issue was even aired for almost two years in a Rome civil court, when American Author Robert Katz was accused of defaming the Pontiffs memory in Massacre in Rome, a 1973 film that alleged Vatican inaction in the face of an impending atrocity by the Nazis at the height...
Volume IX also documents Pius XII's protests, though private, against German atrocities. After some 1,300 Jews were arrested by SS troops in a raid on Rome's ghetto in October 1943, for example, Hitler's ambassador was summoned to the Vatican. There he was told that the raid "was painful for the Holy Father in that so many persons were made to suffer simply because they belonged to another race." According to Volume IX, the decision to stop short of denunciation was made partly from concern over jeopardizing the Holy See's diplomatic efforts...
Critics of Pius XII will find little in Volume IX to dissuade them from their belief that he had other reasons for silence. In his 1975 book, The Race For Rome, Reporter Dan Kurzman contended that Pius feared that he might be "kidnaped" by the Nazis and the Vatican destroyed if he spoke out publicly-and Volume IX confirms that there were rumors of a kidnap plan in 1943. Katz, who last November was found guilty of defamation in the Massacre in Rome case, has postulated that Pius overlooked SS atrocities because he saw the Germans as a barrier against...
...course, Rome wasn't built in a day. 'Course, our team didn't handle that...
PREMARITAL SEX. Some writers on morals justify sexual union before marriage, at least in cases where the couple intends to marry. Rome will not have that. Says the declaration: "Every genital act must be within the framework of marriage." The decree reasons that "love must find its safeguard in the stability of marriage" in order to "protect human dignity" and give children the ordered environment they need. This requires nothing short of a marriage contract that is sanctified by the church and "guaranteed by society...