The Vatican's Secret Shame
John XXIII and Pope Paul VI's covert agreement to be silent on that other holocaust - The Communist Holocaust
Giacomo Galeazzi reviews for La Stampa the new biography of Paul VI written by Andrea Tornielli, and mentions that what many considered a conspiracy theory was true: there was indeed a secret agreement, led by Cardinal Tisserand, between the Soviet Union and the papacy (under John XXIII) in 1962 - an agreement which Paul VI ("Montini") also respected. As Galeazzi reports:
"In a note of November 15, 1965, in fact, Montini explicitly mentions among 'the commitments of the Council' also that of 'not mentioning Communism (1962)."
The indication of the date at the end of the sentence written by Paul VI refers to the secret agreement, related by Tisserand, between Rome and Moscow. And this would explain why the Second Vatican Council, which dealt with all sorts of issues, relevant and irrelevant alike, ignored the most challenging menace of its time: Communism.
Thanks to Rorate Caeli blog for this data.
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1 comments:
Anyone know why they would come to such agreement? Could it have been to save Roman Catholics from further reprisals in the Eastern Block countries?
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