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Article: In defense of Pius XII; blaming the wartime pope for failing to stop the Holocaust from the Vatican is a neat bit of revisionist history.(Column)
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- Newsweek
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- March 30, 1998
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Blaming the wartime pope for failing to stop the Holocaust from the Vatican is a neat bit of revisionist history.
The voice of Pius's XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness enveloping Europe this Christmas.... He is about the only ruler left on the Continent of Europe who dares to raise his voice at all.
--Editorial, The New York Times, Dec. 25, 1941
A full exploration of Pope Pius's conduct is needed.... It now falls to John Paul and his successors to take the next step toward full acceptance of the Vatican's failure to stand squarely against the evil that swept across Europe.
How the times--and the times--do change. During the ...