During the last year, Pope Francis has spoken out on a number of controversial political issues, including poverty, the environment, immigration, the fate of Christian communities in Arab countries, and the need for peace in the world.  He has issued formal statements, most notably his encyclical letter concerning global warming, pollution, and family planning. More surprisingly, in impromptu remarks while in Turin, Italy, on June 21, 2015, he entered the thorny historical arena with a challenging question.  Why didn’t the Allied powers bomb the Nazi extermination camps?  Those in power at the time, the pope said, had intelligence information that minorities were being transported to concentration camps across Europe.  The great powers had photographs of the railroad routes that trains took to the concentration camps, such as Auschwitz, to kill Jews and also Christians, Roma (gypsies), and homosexuals.  Why, he asked, did not those powers bomb those...(Read Full Article)