By the same token, Pius XII, confronted with a moral outrage, which his letters of protest clearly indicate, did nothing but run his mouth.
As opposed to what? Order the Papal Air Force to bomb Bratislava?
The notion that his pressure saved the approximately 25% of Slovak Jews is a ludicrous one. In neighboring Bohemia and Moravia, which were incorporated directly into the Reich as the Protectorate, only 66% died.
Those are lovely statistics, but they're utterly irrelevant. Pius deserves to be judged by his good faith efforts. If they bear fruit (as they did in Italy, where very few Jews were deported) well and good, but if he proved powerless to control other events, how is that his fault?
Pope Pius XII's performance just doesn't cut it. Slovakia was ruled by a prelate who shipped Jews to the gas chambers with a relish and an efficiency rarely matched in German-occupied territory. The Pope's response was a few angry letters. No demand that Tiso come to Rome for 'consultation'.
Don't be obtuse. As the Slovak president, Tiso was the head of state. Popes do not "summon" heads of state to the Vatican to be spanked like naughty boys. Moreover, if he had considered himself subject to ecclesiastical obedience, he'd have halted the deportations what urgently requested to do so. The fact that he chose collaboration instead shows how little he cared for his priestly duty. As disobedient priest, he would have refused a summons; and as head of state he should have. Your suggestion that Pius somehow had the power to compel Tiso's compliance is, to be charitable, stupid.
First you blame Pius for silence; now you complain he was running his mouth. Your bottom line is that you want to blame Pius for what other people did. This is stark character assassination and Catholic bashing.