POPE RATSY - THE SEQUEL

By: Thomas Mckelvey Cleaver

For all those who were scandalized yesterday by my comments about Pope Ratsy's cowardice during the Second World War:

From Catherine Pepinster, editor of the Catholic newspaper, The Tablet:

This was a European, after all, who was both steeped in Bavarian piety, and as a child had grown up in Hitler's shadow.

After, reflecting on the war and on Nazism, he had rejected the lesson drawn by other German theologians, who perceived that its central lesson was the dangers of blind obedience. Instead, he decided that only a faith based on a Church with sound doctrinal values, and a strong central authority could withstand a hostile culture.