New scholarship shows the Catholic Church under wartime Pope Pius XII gave priority to saving Jewish converts
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https://www.wsj.com/world/vaticans-silence-on-holocaust-was-shaped-by-antisemitism-and-caution-archives-show-4e9ecc90Pope Pius XII, who led the Catholic Church from 1939 until 1958, never went beyond allusions to the Nazi genocide in his public statements.ROME—For decades, controversy over why Pope Pius XII didn’t speak out against the Nazi Holocaust has troubled the Catholic Church., as did fear of provoking violence against Catholics under Nazi rule and against the Vatican itself.
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