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July 18, 2008

The silence of Pius XII

In February 2006 I posted about a review by Michael Burleigh of two books on Pope Pius XII's role in the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust. Here Andrew Roberts comes to a severe conclusion on his wider record:

Pius XII was ascetic, hardworking, frail, compassionate, logical, pious, subtle and highly intelligent, but over the single greatest issue of his life he was plainly wrong.

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