Every one of those Monday Morning Quarterbacks who bitch about Pius XII not publicly making statements against Nazism during WW2 should take a good look at what happens to Christians (and as you bring out, not just Roman Catholics)when the Pope makes a public statement that annoys a group with a propensity to violence. And while we're at it, what's going on in our world... A group of muslims kill a nun, and it's the pope's fault? A group of terrorists kill 3,000 people on 9/11 and it's Bush's (or, Clinton's) fault?
Yes, and this also illustrates my point about it being problematic to translate papal political pronouncements into foreign policy.
