"I would now argue, in the light of the debates and evidence following Hitler's Pope, that Pius XII had so little scope of action that it is impossible to judge the motives for his silence during the war, while Rome was under the heel of Mussolini and later occupied by the Germany."
That makes all the difference in the world, because the motive for his "silence" (which wasn't really all that silent) was to preserve innocent lives.
So the Pope, the apparent representative of God and Christ here on earth, couldn’t proclaim the Gospel or stand true publically for God and Christ, because he was trying to protect certain innocent lives?
Sounds like a stand up sort of guy, that Pope. Yeah, I want him representing Christ.