The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust

From the recent conflicts over Pope Pius XII, whether portrayed as a pitiless anti-Semite or a saver of many Jewish lives during World War II, to the confusion over how to take the 1998 Vatican document on the Holocaust, the Catholic Church is in great dispute over it's history of relations with the Jews. "Who killed Christ?" has always been the justification of the Church over the issue of the persecution of the Jews. As well …

…to the Church. Though efforts have been made to come to terms with the Catholic Church's role in the genocide of Hitler's regime, people are either too eager to criticise or are too blind in their devotion to the Church to see fault. Unfortunately, religious bigotry is the worst intolerance of all. Until the Catholic Church modifies their theology that makes the Jew an object to be despised, anti-Semitism will continue to be an issue.