The Vatican may have saved thousands of Jews during the wartime papacy of Pius XII but the late pope’s silence on the holocaust will be debated this week during an international conference. The conference of scholars to be held in Rome from Monday to Wednesday comes two years after Pope Francis ordered the unsealing of Vatican archives from the papacy of Pius XII, who led the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958. Francis’ move, which followed decades of pressure from scholars fiercely divided over the former pope’s perceived passivity during Nazi Germany’s extermination of millions of European Jews, made available...
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