The Pope and Nazism.—Many people must have wondered when they read of the Pope’s attack on Nazism a few weeks ago why he has waited until the conflict is over to denounce what most ordinary citizens had denounced years ago. We have so often heard the excuse that the “Holy Father” cannot take sides and that he must remain neutral. Of what good, then, is this belated censure? The fact is that Eugenio Pacelli is just trying to cover up his past history and make the world believe—like some Germans—that he was anti-Nazi all the time. But, thinking men will say: “why did he not use his unique position to declaim against this evil thing in the beginning instead of allowing his bishops to encourage Germans to back Hitler?” The answer is simple: because he wanted to share in the spoils of Fascism and Nazism. Pacelli, as Papal Nuncio, knew in the early days what the gang was up to as did His predecessor, Pius XI, know all about Fascism at its birth.—Historicus in the Churchman’s Magazine.