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To: Neocon who wrote (138955)	4/17/2001 2:28:15 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

neo..re:"MAJOR CREDIT FOR THE RESCUE OF ITALY'S JEWS GOES TO CATHOLIC CLERGY, YAD VASHEM SAY" No one is saying that the Catholic Church is all bad, but you seem to suggest that it is all good.....and the facts don't bear that out....

To: Neocon who wrote (138955)	4/17/2001 2:34:37 PM
From: dale_laroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"Although the Vatican was justifiably criticized for its deafening silence during the Nazi deportation of Jews, a loud chorus of refugee assistance resonated in its monasteries, convents and churches. A large number of priests, monks and nuns sheltered and fed desperate Jewish men, women and children, a chapter in the Holocaust that too many historians have over-looked or minimized." If you want to get a reasonable picture of my view of the basic nature of the Catholic Church, you should read Warrior Nun Areola. This comic book series presents the Catholic Church as having a corrupt core surrounded by a lot of very altruistic, but often misguided, followers and lower level leaders. This is how I have viewed the Catholic Church for decades. I believe an institution should be judged on the nature of its core, not the actions of those not in control. These altruistic lower level Catholics would have done the same thing if they had been raised Atheist, but with strong ethical principles.