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Ukraine war: "Pope Francis should learn from his WWII predecessor’s mistakes in appeasing fascism", says scholar (theconversation.com)
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Pope Francis has provoked fury by suggesting in a television interview that Ukraine should find “the courage to raise the white flag”.

"This injudicious comment reminded me instantly of the man once described as Hitler’s Pope," writes Tim Luckhurst, Principal of South College at Durham University in the UK.

"As Pope Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli led the Catholic Church throughout the second world war. However, while Hitler’s determination to eliminate the Jewish people was brought to his attention, he did not publicly condemn it. Freedom of practice for German Catholics mattered more."

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[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 21 points 7 months ago

The weird part is, he started by taking the relatively uncontroversial opinion that Ukraine should prosecute the war until the Russians got out

[-] CaptObvious@literature.cafe 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I’m not Catholic, nor Christian for that matter, but I do respect Francis. This seems out of character for him.

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

You respect the leader of the largest pedophile ring of the last 2 millenia?

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 0 points 7 months ago

Savage.

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