[NYer]

Catholic ping!

[fso301]

The nazi pope thing came straight from Moscow.

[ArrogantBustard]

Bleh ...

It's a good first step, I suppose, but they have a long way to go before cleaning up their presentations of Soviet and East German communist propaganda.

[Alex Murphy]

The panel's revised text states that “reaction of Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, to the murder of the Jews during the Holocaust is a matter of controversy among scholars.” It acknowledges the Pope's condemnation of ethnic persecutions, as well as the Holy See's efforts to save Jews.

While the exhibit criticizes the Vatican for instances of silence and a “lack of clear guidance” during the Nazi era, it also acknowledges the perspective of those who say the Pope acted prudently under the circumstances.

“His defenders maintain that this neutrality prevented harsher measures against the Vatican and the Church's institutions throughout Europe, thus enabling a considerable number of secret rescue activities to take place at different levels of the Church,” Yad Vashem's revised exhibit reads.

Ping for later

[SuziQ]

"The Myth of Hitler's Pope", by Rabbi David Dalin, is a well documented book about the liberal lies about Pope Pius XII. I believe it is contructed as a reply to the book, "Hitler's Pope", by John Cornwell.