Tired of charges that Pope Pius XII did not do or say as much as possible to stop the Holocaust, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano argues that the American and British governments were indifferent to the plight of Europe’s Jews long after they learned of the Nazis’ genocidal plans.
Pope Pius, on the other hand, enacted “the only plausible and practical form of defense of the Jews and other persecuted people” by arranging to hide them in church insitutions, the paper says.
