The Religious Leader Who Caused Controversy over His Apparent Silence Before Nazism While Saving Lives From Hiding

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For decades the pontificate of Pius XII has been the subject of controversy, accused of an complicit passivity before the Holocaust. The archives of the Vatican, opened in 2020 by order of Pope Francis, together with testimonies of the time and gestures of gratitude, such as the conversion to Catholicism of the chief rabbi of Rome and the donation of a mansion to the Holy See by a prominent Roman Jew, paint a different picture: that of a man who…