Pius XII
“Nothing is hidden that will not be revealed.”
I was in grade school when Pius XII died. I remember the day in much the same way as when Kennedy was assassinated. There were special reports on television, honoring Pius XII, recounting his heroism during World War II. All of the major figures of the war in Europe were duly commemorated upon their deaths; Churchill, De Gaulle, etc.
A few years later the awful play, “The Deputy” opened in New York. I was appalled. In my mind Pius XII was (is) a saint, how could a play of lies open, defaming him? Ever since that time I have defended Pius XII while his reputation was further tarnished by various authors in subsequent years.
Finally evidence is emerging of the character assassination plots devised against the “Angelic Pastor”, not only to discredit the Pope, but the Catholic Church as well. In an article from Catholic News agency, entitled, “KGB intent on linking Pius XII with Nazis” - a former spy relates:
“In February 1960, Nikita Khrushchev approved a super-secret plan for destroying the Vatican’s moral authority in Western Europe,” writes Pacepa. “Eugenio Pacelli, by then Pope Pius XII, was selected as the KGB’s main target, its incarnation of evil, because he had departed this world in 1958. ‘Dead men cannot defend themselves’ was the KGB’s latest slogan.”
“Today, many people who have never heard of The Deputy are sincerely convinced that Pius XII was a cold and evil man who hated the Jews and helped Hitler do away with them,” Pacepa writes in the National Review Online. “As KGB chairman Yury Andropov, the unparalleled master of Soviet deception, used to tell me, people are more ready to believe smut than holiness.”
“Witnesses from all over the world have compellingly proved that Pius XII was an enemy, not a friend, of Hitler,” says Pacepa. “At the start of World War II, Pope Pius XII’s first encyclical was so anti-Hitler that the Royal Air Force and the French air force dropped 88,000 copies of it over Germany,” he concludes.” - CNA
At Fatima, Our Lady stated Russia would spread her errors throughout the world. We are now beginning to understand how they had accomplished this.
