Introduction:

I am a former R.C. priest and seminary professor who was raised as the most devout of Catholics in the shadow of Pope Pius XII, whom I viesed as a living saint, as most of the faithful did in those days. As a Dominican friar, I even bore the name of "Brother Pius" for several years. In the many years since then, however, I have moved away from the church and found that it looka very different from the outside than it does from the inside.

Several years ago, I was first intrigued and then dismayed by the large role which I learned the R.C. had played in the Jewish Holocaust. Before I lay out the case, which I believe irrefutable, that the church played a much more sereious and sinister role than is currently appreciated, however, I would like to invite those who would defend the R.C. to examine the example set by one of its own "saints", a man whom Pope Benedict has at least put on the path to canonization, the "Blessed" Franz Jagerstatter. Here is the story of this Nazi martyr, much of it written in his own words, the story of one of the only German Catholics who didn't "go along to get along", but chose instead to obey his conscience and go to the guillotine for doing so. This humble, poorly-educated farmer set the standard for the way people of conscience should have responded to Adolf Hitler and Co.. He showed what the Catholic priests, bishops and pope "coulda, shoulda and woulda" have done if they were really the "men of God" that they claimed to be.

Many of the critics of the Roman Catholic Church fault it for being too strict.  But the real problem with those at the helm of this church is that - while often very strict where its perception of the wrongdoing of others is concerned - they are extremely lenient, when it comes to their own wrongdoing..

Millions of American Catholics are still reeling from the discovery that, over the years they have had a 4% chance of being assigned a priest who might use their church's sacristy or rectory to sexually molest their children, and pretty close to a 100% chance that when their celibate, childless bishop found out about such crimes, he would do everything in his power to defend the reputation of the "One, Holy, Catholic Church", rather than the dignity of their innocent children. 

The principal reason that Catholics are dumbfounded by such behavior on the part of their priests, bishops and pope is that they are as much in the dark about the history of this church of theirs as they were about the pedophilia scandals that were going on unnoticed all around them for decades until lawyers and courts succeeded in uncovering what the Church and a very compliant news media had kept hidden from the world at large all those years.

The more educated Catholics are, the more certain they seem to be that they know all they need to know about the history of their Church.  However, what more educated Catholics usually have in greater abundance than their peers is not more knowledge, but more Catholic indoctrination.  They didn't know any more than anyone else about the recent pedophilia scandals, and they know as little as the rest about the much greater holocaust- related scandals that are uncovered in the pages that follow.

When asked how one can be sure to live on forever after our life on earth, Jesus said that there were two indispensable obligations that needed to be met, and when asked to elaborate on the second of these, namely "that one love one's neighbors as oneself", Jesus replied with a dramatic story and explained that we need to model our lives on the non-believing "Good Samaritan" in this story, who showed extensive pity on an unfortunate Jew who had been attacked by highway bandits and left for dead :

{ Luke 10 : 25-37 }

^*The Jewish leaders showed just how much they despised Samaritans when they called Jesus one in { John 8:48 } :The Jews answered him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

Now, whoever called this the parable of "the Good Samaritan" (and it wasn't Jesus himself) may have missed the point, because Jesus didn't just highlight the genuineness of the compassion of the non-believer.   He contrasted it to the phoniness of the two religious leaders.  This might just as well be called "the parable of Phoney Men of God"?

When, in the course of time, not one or two Jews, but ten million or more of them were set upon, not by bandits, but by mass-murderers, intent on taking not just their possessions, but the lives of every last Jew on their continent, how did the Christian clergy of the time respond?

Now the clergy had been reading this important parable for centuries, both privately, and to the faithful who looked to them for the imparting of "God's Word".  They had done the same with many similar passages in which Jesus and many other great prophets of the Bible stress the importance of love and compassion for those most in need of help.  You would think that of all people,, when the occasion arose, these "men of God" would have been ready to be "Good Samaritans" themselves, and ready to urge the faithful to be such as well.  But sadly, that is not what happened.  If the clergy had acted like the priest and the levite of the parable, and simply "crossed over to the other side" in order to avoid seeing and helping the millions of Jews being persecuted and killed, that would have been bad enough.  However, the truth, which I strive to confess in the pages which follow, is that the Christian clergy didn't just ignore horrendous crimes committed by others.  Rather, they fostered a terrible unjustified contempt for Jews over the course of many centuries, and when a few madmen dreamed up a "final solution of the Jewish problem", there were millions of willing Catholic and Lutheran hands ready to carry out those plans!

What a contrast there is between one period of history when the whole Jewish population was persecuted by a powerful ruler of the time, the Pharoah of Egypt, and God prompted Moses and Aaron to lead them all out of Egypt, and twentieth century Europe, when the whole Jewish population was being hunted down and killed at the very heart of Christendom, and not one of those who claimed to represent God arose to lead them out of harm's way.

        This web site has been created :
1. as a loving memorial for the millions of Jews who were criminally deprived of their lives, (by "Christians" for the most part).
2. as a loving memorial for the millions of Christians who lost their own souls, because of the moral bankruptcy of their spiritual leaders, who proved unable to offer their flocks any better advice than "obey your nation's immoral leaders".
3. as a plea to the Christian leaders of our day to begin by confessing the tragic sins of this period and to avoid making similar mistakes in other times and other places.

The scandal of the Roman Catholic Church's role in the Holocaust

is divided into the Introduction (this page), and several other sections on subsequent pages :

1. shows how "the one true Church" helped cause the Holocaust.
2. shows how "the one true Church" helped the Catholic villains, rather than the Jewish victims, during the holocaust.
3. shows how "the one true Church" contiued to help the Catholic villains, rather than the Jewish victims, even after the holocaust, and is now committing similar sins.
4. exposes or "uncovers" the Catholic Church's cover-up, and shows why this very human institution is so successful at covering up its sins.
5. exposes the enormous spiritual dammage which the Roman Catholic Church's neglect caused to its own members.