Catholicism and the Holocaust

In Learning Holiness at Auschwitz – Part 1 Luis Granados asks a very important question. If the Catholic Church was so opposed to Nazism in general and its genocidal policies against the Jews in particular, why is it that the Nazis went to so much trouble and expense to transport Jews from relatively secular Western Europe to highly religious and Roman Catholic Poland for extermination. He expresses the opinion that many officials in the Church helped make Poland a better environment for this mass murder through antisemitic remarks. They seemed not to pay much of a price for those remarks. In fact many were promoted after making them.

The entire piece tells a very disturbing tale. Apparently to this very day the Church allows an antisemitic radio station to broadcast in Poland under its name. The article states that the roll that Pope John Paul the second played in helping the Jews has been greatly exaggerated and noted instances in which the late Pope failed to denounce the holocaust or make a stand against antisemitism when he had the chance and really should have. One of the accusations is that he actually praised that very radio station.