{"id":12767,"date":"2009-05-13T01:28:24","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T01:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/popes_wartime_past_becomes_an_issue_on_israel_trip\/"},"modified":"2009-05-13T01:28:24","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T01:28:24","slug":"popes_wartime_past_becomes_an_issue_on_israel_trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12767","title":{"rendered":"Pope\u2019s Wartime Past Becomes an Issue on Israel Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican on Tuesday sought to defend Pope Benedict XVI against criticism that his speech at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial on Monday was a disappointment coming from a German who experienced the Nazi terror firsthand.<\/p>\n<p>But in seeking to clarify the pope\u2019s wartime past, the Vatican further muddied the waters, appearing to revise \u201d\u201d then retract \u201d\u201d Benedict\u2019s wartime history in the middle of his first visit to Israel as pontiff.<\/p>\n<p>At a news conference on Tuesday, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, seemed to contradict the pope\u2019s own previous statements when he said that Benedict, growing up in Bavaria during World War II, \u201cnever, never, never\u201d\u009d belonged to the Hitler Youth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/13\/world\/middleeast\/13pope.html?hp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vatican on Tuesday sought to defend Pope Benedict XVI against criticism that his speech at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial on Monday was a disappointment coming from a German who experienced the Nazi terror firsthand. But in seeking to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12767\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,200,478,133,161,565,429,203,154,155,636,108,364,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-germany","category-history","category-inter-faith-relations","category-israel","category-judaism","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}