Pope Pius XII
“It’s perhaps among the most challenging in a series of moments in Catholic-Jewish relations over the last 60 years,” Rabbi Noam Marans told JNS.
The letter, to be published in a forthcoming book, “undercuts” the Vatican’s suggestion that it hadn’t been able to verify Nazi atrocities at the time.
More than 200 researchers have applied for permission to study the millions of letters and documents of the pontiff’s papacy, which are held in the Vatican Apostolic Archives.
