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♦ AS NAZIS
Pius XII Felt He Should
Denounce Reds As Well
WASHINGTON (NC) — Pope
Pius XII told the United States
at the beginning of 1943 that
he could not specifically con
demn nazi atrocities, as he was
being pressured to do, without
also denouncing the bolsheviks,
and the Allies probably would
not like that.
^ The Pope also made it clear
that he felt that everyone should
have seen in his Christmas
message of a few days before
a clear condemnation of nazi
atrocities.
THESE THINGS are brought
out in an official State Depart
ment publication, Foreign Re
lations of the United States,
1943, Volume II, just made
public. They have a particular
timeliness in view of the cur
rent stage play “The Deputy/'
whose author Rolf Huchhuth
charges that Pope Pius XII
did not sufficiently denounce
the nazi persecution of Jews.
Pope Pius XII’s observation
are contained in a telgram sent
to the State Department by
Harold H. Tittmann, then at
the Vatican as assistant to My
ron C. Taylor, President
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Franklin D. Roosevelt’s per
sonal representative to the Vat
ican. Taylor was not in Vatican
City at the time of the dispatch,
dated Jan. 5, 1943, and sent
through Switzerland.
Reporting that he had a 40-
minute conversation with Pope
Pius XII “at the customary
New Year audience," Tittmann
said the talk at first dealt with
the Holy See’s efforts to save
Rome from aerial bombing, and
then went on to other matters.
“WITH REGARD to his
Christmas message/’Titmann
told his superiors in Washing
ton, “the Pope gave me the
impression that he was sincere
in believing that he had spoken
therein clearly enough to sat
isfy all those who had been in
sisting in the past that he ut
ter some world of condemna
tion of the nazi atrocities and
he seemed surprised when I
told him that I thought there
were some who did not share
his belief.
“He said he thought that it
was plain to everyone that he
was referring to the Poles,
Jews and hostages when he de
clared that hundreds of thous
ands of persons had been kill
ed or tortured through no fault
of their own, sometimes only
because of their race or nat
ionality.
He explained that when talk
ing of atrocities he could not
name the nazis without at the
same time mentioning the bol
sheviks and this he thought
might not be wholly pleasing to
the Allies.
“He stated that he 'feared'
that there was foundation for
the atrocity reports of the Al
lies but led ms to believe that
he felt that there had been
some exaggeration for purposes
of propaganda. Taken as a whole
he thought his message should
be welcomed by the American
people and I agreed with (him).
TfiTMAN N also reported
that he told the Pope how much
he appreciated being able to
attend the midnight Mass the
Pontiff had celebrated for mem
bers of the diplomatic corps
on Christmas Eve. “I said I
was impressed by this demon
stration above the havoc of war
of the brotherhood of man when
friend and foe alike were seen
to kneel together at the altar
in order to receive Holy Com
munion from the hands of the
Universal Father, 'Tittmann
telegraphed.
'The Germans, however,
were conspicuous by their ab
sence and I could see that their
lack of cooperation in this in
stance had affected the Holy
Father. He was inclined to at
tribute the absence to fear on
their part that they might in
cur displeasure of the more ex
treme nazi leaders had they
attended,’’
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Oct. 6, 1942, in which he said
“another motive, possibly
the controlling one, behind the
Pope's disinclination to de
nounce nazi atrocities is his
fear that if he does so now,
the German people, in the bit
terness of their defeat, will re
proach him later on” for hav
ing contributed to the condi
tion of German defeat,
Tittmann said Germans had
made similar accusations aga
inst Pope Benedict XV for his
World War I statements.
“When it is borne in mind
that Plus XII had many years
of conditioning in Germany, it
will not seem unnatural that
he should be particularly sen
sitive to this particular argu
ment/’ Tittmann added, obvio
usly referring to the long ser
vice, Pius XII had in Germany
as a diplomat of the Holy See.
SEPARATED, BUT NOT REALLY APART—This family has not had a reunion in 28
years, not since Father George M. Ziebert, S.J., left for India. He is shown (seated)
with his mother, Mrs. George P. Ziebert, 81, of Dayton, Ohio, and standing, left to right:
his brother, Joseph and his sisters: Sisters M. Jeanette, Phoenix, Ariz.; M. Genevieve,
St. Joseph, Mo., M. Vincentia, El Cajon, Calif.; M. Leonora, Dayton, Ohio, and Mrs. John
Bistak, Cleveland. Ordained in India, Father Ziebert offered his first Mass in the U. S.
(June 14) in Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Cleveland.
DECISIVE
The First Year: Paul No Hamlet
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ago some dubbed him the “Ham
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by the head of the N.C.W.C.
news bureau in Rome shows
that the Pontiff’s first year has
been marked by decisive and
imaginative action.
BY JAMES C. O'NEILL
(N. C. W. C. NEWS SERVICE)
VATICAN CITY—The first
year of the reign of Pope Paul
VI is so studded with momen
tous and dramatic events that
the man at the center of them
almost is obscured from sight.
Like his predecessor, Pope
John XXIII, who was referred
to at first as an “Interim Pope"
by those supposedly in the
“know/' Pope Paul VI was
characterized by some as the
“Hamlet from Milan.'* If the
development of the first year of
the papacy of Giovanni Battista
Montini is any standard, the
name of the indecisive “Ham
let** will be no more applica
ble to him than the insignificant
term of “Interim” was to his
remarkable predecessor.
THE CARDINAL Archbishop
of Milan was elected Pope on
June 21, 1963. It was just 18
days after the painful but im
pressive death of “Good Pope
John.” Twelve days later Pope
Paul's coronation was celebrat
ed on the steps and balcony of
St. Peter's in a dazzling cere
mony to which 96 nations sent
official envoys.
In the next few months the new
Pope threw himself into the task
of becoming familiar with all
aspects of his role as Christ's
Vicar on Earth. Though he long
knew many facets of it from his
years as a close associate of
Pope Pius XII there still were
hundreds of reports to pour
over, cardinals, prelates and
people to talk with and a rou
tine of audiences, speeches and
visits to master.
Many in the Roman curia,
the top administrative offices
which assist the Pope in gov
erning the Church, found it dif
ficult to determine what kind .of
a pope the new one was going to
be? A traditionalist? An in
novator?
POPE PAUL provided an in
dication early in September. He
summoned all officials of the
curia and announced that he ex
pected them to reform their of
fices to meet better the demands
of the present day. The speech
m^xed praise for their work and
for their loyalty with demands
of modernization, internationa
lization and greater efficiency.
ANSWER TO
LAST WEEK’S PUZZLE
In short, Pope Paul served
notice on his administrative as
sistants that the “aggiomamen-
to“ or “bringing up to date'*
which was the theme of the
Second Vatican Council ap
plies also to the most central
offices of the Church. The
speech also had the effect of
making it clear that Pope Paul
considered the curia's reform
his prerogative and not a pro
ject for the council itself.
As it stands today, no con
crete results have been forth
coming; however initial studies
are already underway and a
commission, still in the “em
bryo stage'* as Vatican circles
put it, is being readied for the
time when the Pope deems it
opportune to begin the immense
task of overhauling the cum
bersome administrative struc
ture.
WITH THE second session of
the council, the interest of the
Church and world centered on
the debates Inside the council
hall. In his inaugural address,
Pope Paul made it clear he
favored holding the council and
stressed that he also supported
fully its announced goals, set
by Pope John: the “aggioraa-
mento’* of the Church and the
promotion of Christian unity.
But while the debates ranged
over the structure of the
Church, the role of the bishops
and the meaning and direction
of ecumenism, the new Pope re
mained in the background. He
made a point of not Intervening
in the discussion nor of throw
ing his weight to one side or
another as the debates dragged
on.
Even in his closing speech on
the morning of Dec. 4, Pope Paul
was non-committal on his per
sonal views on the matters so
warmly discussed for more than
two months. Instead he reviewed
dispassionately the various ar
guments under debate.
WHILE STAYING in the shad
ows during the second session,
the Pope in his closing speech
revealed that he was by no
means indifferent to the pro
gress of the council. In effect
he told the Fathers that mat
ters had moved too slowly.
Greater clarity of concepts,
better and shorter schemata
must be drawn up before the
next session, he declared.
At the Pope's instruction all
matters pending before the
council were drastically re
viewed when the second session
closed. Already prepared sche
mata were reviewed, rewrit
ten and pared to the essentials.
The result has been a great
reduction in the work to be
submitted to the Fathers during
the third session. For instance,
the schema on the missions,
which covered hundreds of
pages in preparatory phase and
which was reduced to some 20
pages by the time the second
session was held, today is only
seven pages long.
THE POPE too was quick to
implement the decisions of the
council regarding the liturgy
and mass communications. The
Pope created a special com
mission to carry out the far-
reaching liturgical reform. The
commission, headed by the re-
form-minded Archbishop of Bo
logna, Giacomo Cardinal Ler-
caro, has done its work so well
that less than six months after
the promulgation of the liturgi
cal constitution the new English
texts for the Mass in the United
States have been drawn up by
the American Bishops and con
firmed for use by the Holy See.
Another Commission had been
called on to carry out the pro
gram laid down by the council
for mass media.
Another interesting point in
the Pope's concluding speech
was his indication that he was
thinking of establishing a spec
ial office of the Church to deal
with non-Catholic religions. He
actually carried this idea out in
May, 1964, when he named Pao
lo Cardinal Marella, head of the
Secretariat for non-Christians,
the first such office ever to
exist within the Church and
probably the first to be created
by any Christian body to bridge
the gap between the Christian
and non-Christian world.
THE SIGNIFICANCE of the
Pope’s closing speech on Dec.
4th and his action and decisions
later was all but lost on many
observers because of the total
ly unexpected climax of the
speech—the Pope's announce
ment of his pilgrimage to the
Holy Land.
The January pilgrimage cap
tured the imagination of the
world. The decision revealed a
capacity, surprising to many, of
the Pope to act independently,
without reference to tradition^
or precedents. The meeting and
embracing of the Pope, with
eyes brimming with tears, and
the Patriarch of Constantinople
was dramatic proof that the new
Pope had no intention of being
content with paying lip-service
to the goal of the reunion of
Christendom.
“Let fall the barriers,” Pope
Paul had cried a few months
earlier while visiting an Eas
tern Rite monastery at Grotta-
ferrata near his summer home
at Castelgandolfo. His ecumeni
cal journey to Jerusalem per
haps has done more to shake
the barriers between Catholi
cism and Orthodoxy than any
single act in 500 years.
With his return from the Holy
Land, the Pope repeated over
and over his emphasis on the
goal of Christian unity. Still he
was not one to underestimate
the difficulties and told a Jan.
19 audience in Rome: “It will
be necessary to have much pat
ience and much understanding;
no hurry, but a great desire.”
DURING HIS first year as
Pope, Pope Paul was visited by
a remarkable number of heads
of state, including the presi
dents of the United States, Tan
ganyika, Somali, Italy, Ireland,
and Brazil, the sovereigns of
Denmark and Greece, the Sec
retary General of the United
Nations and two chancellors of
Germany.
President John F. Kennedy
came to pay a courtesy visit
on July 2, two days after the
Pope’s coronation and not quite-
five months before the Presi
dent's assassination. Even that
terrible event demonstrated
another characteristic of the
new Pope; the ability to make a
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quick decision on the spot if
the situation warranted. Short
ly after hearing the news on
Nov. 22, the Pope, sweeping
aside all protocol and ignor
ing the normal usages, broad
cast over an American radio
network his heartfelt sympathy
for the American people and the
President’s grieving family.
While the series of state vis
its paid tribute to the office to
which Giovanni Montini had been
raised, it was the Pope's visits
to and with others, mostly his
own people of Rome, that gave
a clue to his emotional side. On
Nov. 10 he took possession as
Bishop of Rome of his cathedral
of St. John Lateran. During the
ceremonies he promised to vis
it frequently all sectors of his
diocese, to be known and to
know his people. He kept his
promise.
LIKE POPE John he visited
Rome’s main jail, Regina Coeli,
a visit touched by tears, and the
city's hospitals. An early Lent
found Pope Paul celebrating
Mass in the parish churches of
poor and populous areas of the
immense diocese of Rome,
preaching informally and dis
tributing Communion to hun
dreds and hundreds of people.
After Easter the Pope rarely
missed a Sunday to celebrate
Mass in St. Peter's for the
thousands of pilgrims and vis
itors to the Eternal City or in
the various chapels of the Vat
ican for groups such as factory
workers, artists or deformed
children.
A common mark of these oc
casions was the warmth, the
emotional content of his voice
as Pope Paul spoke to his child
ren. On Easter Sunday he had
celebrated a low Mass at a
small parish church and then
hastened back to St. Peter’s for
another low Mass.
During the sermon at the later
Mass, the Pope's voice shook as
he described the scene of the
parish Mass and that of the Eas
ter story. His voice rising and
falling, changes with overtones
of tenderness and wonder, was
far different from the measured
and carefully modulated phras
es which are characteristic of
his formal addresses and de
livery of written discourses.
THE FIRST year of the reign
of Pope Paul has been marked
by the slow unfolding, the grad
ual adaptation to the enormous
demands of the papacy of the
man who is Giovanni Battista
Montini. Even in the things that
he has chosen not to do, Pope
Paul reveals a personal in
dependence of action.
AS FOR the opening encycli
cal of his reign. Pope Paul de
cided to substitute the “living
word” of his address opening
the second session of the coun
cil, to “take the place of the
encyclical letter, which, if it
please God, we hope to ad
dress to you once these toil
some days are past.”
The first year of the Pope’s
occupancy of the Chair of Peter
endied not with fulfillment as
much as with promise. One brief
year has revealed a Pontiff cap
able of immense undertakings,
one who chooses to study situa
tions, yet who can under special
circumstances react with
warmth and emotion even to the
edge of tears.
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