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And even if Einstein did say and felt this way, I would disagree with him and say he wasnt around to see much of the information that came out after his death. As I understand It, the Catholic church actually knew what was going on and did very little. But of course we can disagree, welcome and hope to see you around.

Some more interesting quotes from the man... i can find more but felt no need.

"The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press,
usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to
organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them."
- Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 30 July 1932

"I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices
of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the
community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight
against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries
has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle
to any attempt to organize peace on this planet."
- Albert Einstein, letter, 1954


"I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a
Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity
to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit
priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist."
- Albert Einstein to Guy H. Raner Jr, July 2, 1945

Your letter shows the anti-Catholic streak in the thinking of Einstein.
In spite of this he took the trouble to write the letter to Time. Knowing
Einstein, and living in that horrible era of Nazi Germany, would it have
been possible that he was misled?

Actually, there are two issues wrapped up in your reply Dude. One is whether
the Catholic Church in Germany did anything to counter the onslaught of Hitler.
The other is about the action of Pope which has become a contentious issue at present.
You may think these issues are the same. They are not. This is because in the Church
organization each diocese is pretty much autonomous from the pope. This is because
dogmas, disciplines are well defined in the Church so that when a diocese or a parish
or even an individual is confronted with evil such as had happened in Germany, one's action
will depend largely on conscience and guts.

Having said that, the heroism of the Catholic Church and even the other Christian denominations
for that matter is not in dispute. This was what led Einstein to publish his observation.

As regards to the action of the pope at that time, what I have observed is that no argument and
documented evidence in favor of the pope can make some anti-Catholic change their minds.

Out of the many such evidences allow me to present two strong ones: This is a quote from an article
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust:
The Israeli consul, Pinchas E. Lapide, in his book, Three Popes and the Jews (New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1967) critically examines Pope Pius XII. According to his research, the Catholic Church under Pius XII was instrumental in saving 860,000 Jews from Nazi death camps (p. 214). Could Pius have saved more lives by speaking out more forcefully? According to Lapide, the concentration camp prisoners did not want Pius to speak out openly (p. 247). As one jurist from the Nuremberg Trials said on WNBC in New York (Feb. 28, 1964), "Any words of Pius XII, directed against a madman like Hitler, would have brought on an even worse catastrophe... [and] accelerated the massacre of Jews and priests." (Ibid.) Yet Pius was not totally silent either. Lapide notes a book by the Jewish historian, Jenoe Levai, entitled, The Church Did Not Keep Silent (p. 256). He admits that everyone, including himself, could have done more. If we condemn Pius, then justice would demand condemning everyone else. He concludes by quoting from the Talmud that "whosoever preserves one life, it is accounted to him by Scripture as if he had preserved a whole world." With this he claims that Pius XII deserves a memorial forest of 860,000 trees in the Judean hills (pp. 268-9). It should be noted that six million Jews and three million Catholics were killed in the Holocaust.

There are more such pro Pius XII comments but I think I have written too long a letter already and I don't have the aptitude for debates.