A bit of holocaust historical revisionism mixed with a dash of pedophilia protectionism.

[Warren Stupidity]

The decision by Pope Benedict XVI to appoint Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto as the new papal ambassador to the Holy Land is an embarrassment and humiliation for Israel. The new papal nuncio, as the ambassador is known, has been serving as papal envoy to Australia since 2007, and he is expected to replace outgoing Archbishop Antonio Franco after six years of service in Jerusalem.

Franco, who threatened to boycott the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony five years ago, will be remembered in Rome as the envoy who conducted the Catholic Church's battle to clear the name of Pope Pius XII at the Yad Vashem Museum. The campaign was hailed as a success by the Vatican after the Holocaust memorial museum agreed to replace a caption suggesting Pope Pius XII did not do enough to stop the genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Lazzarotto, on the other hand, was linked to the pedophile priests scandal that rocked the Irish Catholic Church in 2005. He was accused of doing everything in his power to protect them. Lazzarotto, who served as the Vatican's ambassador to Ireland at the time, was thought to have spearheaded Pope Benedict's policy not to cooperate with Judge Yvonne Murphy, the head of the committee appointed by the government of Ireland to investigate the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Dublin.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4271916,00.html

Nice.

[cbayer]

1. First San Francisco, now Israel. It as if they are purposefully trying to infuriate people.

Why is this guy even still in any position in the church, let alone an archbishop? I hope Israel screams loud enough for the Pope to hear them.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. The pedo-priest scandal in Ireland is mind bogglingly awful.

[cbayer]

4. Absolutely agree. I saw the 60 minutes piece las weekend for the first

time and I was horrified. It was one of the toughest things I have ever watched and I still don't know how to respond.

For them to send this guy to Israel.... well, I don't know how to respond to that either.

He should be defrocked at the very least, and jailed if justice were really to be served.

[skepticscott]

6. Well, you could respond as you have in the past

By arguing that the reasons to keep supporting the Catholic church, financially and otherwise, far outweigh the reasons that a decent person would stop doing those things.

[atreides1]

3. Israel wussied out...

"The campaign was hailed as a success by the Vatican after the Holocaust memorial museum agreed to replace a caption suggesting Pope Pius XII did not do enough to stop the genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II."

They replaced the caption as requested by the Papal Nuncio...why would Israel scream now?

[cbayer]

5. Why did they do that? Do you know more about the story.

I had not heard it before this article.