Vatican vanity

Hmmm.

Beatification for Polish family murdered for sheltering Jews

A beatification Mass service has been held in Poland for a Catholic family murdered by Nazis for hiding Jews during World War Two. Poland’s president and more than 30,000 pilgrims attended the outdoor service, led by Pope Francis’ envoy. This was the first time an entire family has been beatified, a great honour and a step towards sainthood.

They were executed in 1944 with the Jews they sheltered in south-eastern Poland, after they were betrayed.

That’s all very nice but the BBC fails to murmur so much as a word about the Catholic church’s relationship to Nazism and Anti-Semitism. The Catholic church was not a beacon of resistance to Nazism in 1944. The Catholic church is a reactionary institution with a deep affinity for fascists – the real kind, not the pretend kind. I don’t think I much like its laundering itself now via ceremonies for people who did resist back then when it was dangerous.

In late 1942, motivated by their Christian values, farmers Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and their six young children – Stanislawa, Barbara, Maria, Wladyslaw, Franciszek and Antoni – hid eight Jews in their farmhouse in the village of Markowa.

How tf does the BBC know what they were motivated by? And which “Christian values” do they mean? Masses of Christians were on team-fascism back then. It was a “Christian value” to want to get rid of all those annoying godless lefties.

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