Vatican City during World War II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City_during_World_War_II
Catholic Church Reveals World War II Secrets
http://abcnews.go.com/International/Story?id=2463378&page=1#.UNuv6qwieSo
The Church's role in the Nazi Holocaust
http://www.religioustolerance.org/vat_hol12.htm
Vatican plans to open secret war archives - 7/7/2006
"But in a clear attempt to counter such claims, and therefore improve relations between Jews and Catholics, the Pontiff has ordered that "all documentary sources", from 1922 until February 1939, be made available for historical research."
"Most Jewish spokesmen welcomed the Vatican's decision, but some insisted that the Church must also open all its files from the World War Two years, 1939-1945."
http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/7th-july-2006/4/vatican-plans-to-open-secret-war-archives
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
"The International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission (ICJHC), a group comprised of three Jewish and three Catholic scholars, was appointed in 1999 by the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. In October of 2000, the group of scholars finished their review of the Vatican's archives, and submitted their preliminary findings to the Comission's then-President, Cardinal Edward I Cassidy. Their report, entitled "The Vatican and the Holocaust," laid to rest several of the conventional defenses of Pope Pius XII."
"The often-espoused view that the Pontiff was unaware of the seriousness of the situation of European Jewry during the war was definitively found to be inaccurate. Numerous documents demonstrated that the Pope was well-informed about the full extent of the Nazi's anti-Semitic practices. A letter from Konrad von Preysing, Bishop of Berlin, that proved that the Pope was aware of the situation as early as January of 1941, particularly caught the attention of the commission. In that letter, Preysing confirms that "Your Holiness is certainly informed about the situation of the Jews in Germany and the neighboring countries. I wish to mention that I have been asked both from the Catholic and Protestant side if the Holy See could not do something on this subject...in favor of these unfortunates." The letter, which was a direct appeal to the Pope himself, without intermediaries, provoked no response. In 1942, an even more compelling eyewitness account of the mass-murder of Jews in Lwow was sent to the Pope by an archbishop; this, too, garnered no response."
"The commission also revealed several documents that cast a negative light on the claim that the Vatican did all it could to facilitate emigration of the Jews out of Europe. Internal notes meant only for Vatican representatives revealed the opposition of Vatican officials to Jewish emigration from Europe to Palestine. "The Holy See has never approved of the project of making Palestine a Jewish home...[because] Palestine is by now holier for Catholics than for Jews." Some Catholic higher-ups violated this position of the Vatican by helping Jews to immigrate when they were able to; most did not."
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/pius.html
Vatican politics continue today:
Roman Catholic Cleric, Celebrates Palestinian State - (12/24/2012) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2972395/posts