So, The Catholic Church Has a Nazi Past

A little historical clarification here:-

The Catholic Church has issued a list of 5,900 people who were forced by the Nazis to work as gardeners, grave-diggers and hospital orderlies at Catholic facilities in Germany during World War II...During the Nazi era, huge numbers of Eastern Europeans were forced to do factory or farm work at low pay,

...The church decided to expose its own guilt in greater detail, commissioning a 700-page historical study of the 4,829 laborers and 1,075 prisoners of war it had obtained from the Nazi labor office...Most laborers did not work in churches, but typically in Catholic hospitals and cemeteries, on farms run by monasteries or in domestic service. According to the study, most hailed from Poland, Ukraine and the Soviet Union.

In a radio interview, Hummel said the Church had failed by not speaking out clearly against the Nazi regime..."It's a burden of history that our church will keep facing up to in the future," he said.

And more:-

The report commissioned in 2000 by the German Catholic Bishops’ Conference found that during the war church institutions employed 4,829 civilians and 1,075 prisoners of war as slave labourers.

The Archbishop of Mainz, Cardinal Karl Lehmann said the 700-page history entitled "Forced Labour in the Catholic Church 1939-1945" found that 776 church hospitals, homes, monasteries, farms and gardens were provided with slave labour imported from Russia, Poland and the Ukraine by the Nazi regime.

...Cardinal Lehmann said at a press conference broadcast on German television on April 8...There is no collective guilt, but as Christians and as a church we are aware of the responsibility that results from the burden of the past,” the former president of the German Catholic Bishops Conference said.

"We shouldn't hide the fact that the memory of the Catholic church was blind for too long to the fate and the suffering of the men, women, young people and children dragged to Germany from all over Europe to be put to forced labour," Cardinal Lehmann said.

...Harvard scholar Daniel Jonah Goldhagen in his 2003 book “A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair” denounced the Catholic Church’s collusion with the Nazi regime, placing some of the moral responsibility of the Holocaust upon its shoulders, while John Cornwell in “Hitler’s Pope” denounced Pope Pius XII’s silence.

Other scholars have rejected these claims, including Rabbi David Dalin whose book the “Myth of Hitler’s Pope” argues the Catholic Church did more than any other religious body to help Jews in the face of Nazi persecution. [there just had to be a Jew, and a Rabbi at that, to counter Goldhagen]