Pope Pius XII in the Second World War
Since the 1960s, it has been increasingly fashionable to condemn Pius XII (Eugenio Pacelli) – who was Pope from 1939 until 1958 – for his alleged indifference to the fate of Europe’s Jews during the Second World War. Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center of Los Angeles, for example, recently declared: “… Pope…