National Public Radio: Jesuit Basher

From NPR, a story entitled, Vatican Opens Pre-WWII Papal Archive
by Sylvia Poggioli

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Historian David Kertzer says that Pius XI was aware he was making deals with devils in order to secure advantages for the Catholic church, but that his attitude changed toward the end of his papacy. "The pope began to regret to some extent what he had done and he really had some crisis of conscience," Kurtzer says. In 1938, as he was growing even more concerned over what was happening in Germany and the rest of Europe, Pius XI asked an American Jesuit who was known for his anti-racist views to prepare a draft encyclical directly condemning racism and anti-racism and anti-Semitism. The request went nowhere. "The Jesuit hierarchy essentially buried this. The head of the Jesuits worldwide essentially was an anti-Semite himself, and it only got to the pope in his very last days. He was too frail to do anything."

Link to the NPR story (here)

It would be nice to see America Magazine pound back this story and not let NPR get away with this.