{"id":1112,"date":"2005-10-14T15:40:04","date_gmt":"2005-10-14T15:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/frum-weighs-in.html"},"modified":"2005-10-14T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2005-10-14T15:40:04","slug":"frum-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/10\/frum-weighs-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Frum Weighs In"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Matthew Scully’s defense of Harriet Miers, but just as interestingly for our purposes, on Rabbi David Dalin’s book on Pius XII:<\/a><\/p>\n

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In keeping with the solemnity of the Yom Kippur holiday, though, I spent my time after services reading David Dalin’s new book The Myth of Hitler’s Pope<\/a>. It’s a short book but in just a very few pages succeeds (or so it seems to me) in proving that Pope Pius XII has been horribly traduced by his many critics. <\/p>\n

There are spots where Rabbi Dalin’s enthusiasm gets the better of him. I think it is hard to deny that the Vatican willingly cooperated with antidemocratic forces in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. And Dalin’s own evidence makes clear that the pope’s supreme priority was always the protection of the institutional interests of the church. <\/p>\n

Within those limits, though, Dalin proves and more than proves: More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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