The Holocaust is no laughing matter, but I can’t help but giggle at the religious leaders of the groups most invested in popular mythologies who can’t seem to agree that it was a bad thing. Popes are never wrong it seems.

The Vatican ambassador to Israel has sparked a row after refusing to attend tomorrow’s annual Holocaust memorial service in Jerusalem in protest at a description of the wartime role of Pope Pius XII.
Monsignor Antonio Franco, who arrived in Jerusalem last year, has called on Israel’s official Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem, to change a picture caption that criticises the pontiff for failing to condemn the deportation and mass killing of Jews under the Nazis. Earlier this month he turned down a formal invitation to Sunday’s torch-lighting remembrance ceremony.  Read more