WikiLeaks: Vatican dropped Holocaust deal

MSNBC's take is a bit ambiguous, but this could be a really big deal..  Excerpts:


The Vatican abandoned plans to join an international Holocaust remembrance body amid tensions over the role of the war-time pope, a newspaper reported citing a U.S. diplomatic cable obtained by WikiLeaks.
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It says there are 16 million documents from the papacy of Pope Pius XII, who the Guardian described as a "a controversial figure for his failure publicly to denounce the Holocaust in 1941 or 1942, when the Vatican was first informed of what was going on."
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Elan Steinberg, vice president of American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants, said in an emailed statement last month that Benedict's comments (In defense of the war time Pope's actions)"fill us with pain and sadness and cast a menacing shadow on Vatican-Jewish relations."


If Pius became a saint, that would create an "unfathomable breach" in Catholic-Jewish relations, Steinberg added. "Pius' silence during the Holocaust was a profound moral failure," he said.




Let's see:  Elements of WikiLeaks, The Vatican, The Pope, The Jews, and The Holocaust, all in one story.  Boring..  Stop boring me with your boring, beginning to be validated conspiracy theories..