{"id":98359,"date":"2016-12-16T00:39:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T07:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=98359"},"modified":"2016-12-14T07:23:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T14:23:02","slug":"bill-doino-jr-beebs-apology-sliming-pius-xii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/12\/bill-doino-jr-beebs-apology-sliming-pius-xii.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Doino, Jr. on the Beeb’s Apology for Sliming Pius XII"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

He writes:<\/p>\n

Please note link below\u2013 progress on the Pius XII front\u2014the BBC has, to its credit, acknowledged and corrected its own report, which badly misrepresented Pius XII\u2019s actions and the wartime Catholic Church during the Holocaust.<\/p>\n

\u2014many of us had documented this widespread bias 15 years ago, around the time John Cornwell\u2019s (now) discredited Hitler\u2019s Pope<\/em> appeared\u2014and have kept pressing that point<\/a>, especially as new and compelling evidence<\/a> continues to emerge in PP\u2019s favor\u2013 now, major secular news outlets are finally coming around to a more balanced appraisal.<\/p>\n

\u2013this is most encouraging, and I\u2019m sure my late friend, the eminent British historian Sir Martin Gilbert, (whom I paid tribute to here<\/a>), and who was a leader in helping reverse this prejudice, would be quite pleased\u2014Sincerely, WD<\/p>\n

Note link to BBC correction here.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bill has a piece in the Catholic Herald about the retraction here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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