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SODOMY AND GOMORRAH 263
For the centuried misogyny, calculated power-grabs, general
“stubborn resistance to the truth” and associated widespread deceit
in the Catholic Church, consult Garry Wills’ (2000) surprising
Papal Sin. For the shameful history of anti-Semitism in the same
organization, from its highest leaders on down, see Cornwell’s
(1999) Hitler’s Pope and Lewy’s (2000) The Catholic Church and
Nazi Germany. For the connection between the Vatican and post-
WWII “Nazi smuggling” in the fight against communism, refer to
Aarons and Loftus’ (1998) Unholy Trinity:
[Ante] Pavelić ... had been the Poglavnik of “independent”
Croatia, exercising comparable powers to the Führer in Germany.
He had even managed to keep the death machine operating
almost until the end, while the Germans were frantically
dismantling theirs....
In a strange reversal of roles, [Pavelić] castigated the
Führer about the “lenient” treatment of German Jews, boasting
that in comparison he had completely solved the Jewish
question in Croatia while some remained alive in the Third
Reich....
The pope’s own attitude towards the murderous Ustashi
[terrorist network] leader was more than benign neglect....
Pius [XII] himself promised to give Pavelić his personal
blessing again. By this time, the Holy See possessed abundant
evidence of the atrocities committed by his regime.
Nor were other aspects of that pope’s silent conduct during the
time of Hitler any more praiseworthy:
It seems beyond any doubt ... that if the churches had opposed
the killing and the persecution of the Jews, as they
opposed the killing of the congenitally insane and the sick,
there would have been no Final Solution (in Cornwell, 1999).
If [Pius XII] is to take credit for the use of Vatican extraterritorial
religious buildings as safe houses for Jews during
Germany’s occupation of Rome, then he should equally take
blame for the use of the same buildings as safe houses for
Nazi and Ustash[i] criminals (Cornwell, 1999).
Or, as Settimia Spizzichino, the sole survivor of the German
roundup and deportation of Rome’s Jews, put it in a 1995 interview
with the BBC: