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264 STRIPPING THE GURUS
I came back from Auschwitz on my own. I lost my mother,
two sisters, a niece, and one brother. Pius XII could have
warned us about what was going to happen. We might have
escaped from Rome and joined the partisans. He played right
into the Germans’ hands. It all happened right under his
nose. But he was an anti-Semitic pope, a pro-German pope.
He didn’t take a single risk. And when they say the pope is
like Jesus Christ, it is not true. He did not save a single
child. Nothing.
Of course, when “Satan” is thus attacking holy men—as in the
current pedophilia crisis—for doing “God’s work,” there is a surefire
defense for any “believer.” The same defense could, indeed, be
directed equally ineffectually against the present book and author
as well:
[W]e call down God’s power on the [anti-Catholic] media
(Cardinal Bernard Law, in [Boston Globe, 2003]).
Controlling their followers’ sex lives? Injunctions against contraception
and the regard for fornication, contraception and homosexual
activity as “mortal sins” will certainly do that.
Many priests were disillusioned by celibacy, which they saw
as a mechanism of control, much akin to [the Church’s] authoritarian
attitude toward lay people’s sex lives (Berry,
1992).
Pius XII ... made the condemnation of birth control resonate
ceaselessly from classrooms, pamphlets, confessionals, with a
kind of hysterical insistence. Contraception was a mortal sin.
Its unrepenting practitioners were going to hell (Wills, 2000).
Not only were oral and anal intercourse forbidden, but all
varieties of stimulation or position were counted unnatural
except the man-on-top performance. The act with a single
goal [i.e., impregnation] was to have but a single mode of
execution (Wills, 1972).
Nor was it necessary to thus “execute” improperly—in “Catholic
roulette” (i.e., sex without contraception) or otherwise—in order
for one to run afoul of the God of Law: