Incorrect Date on Pius XII Document Explains Silence [Zenit]

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By Jesús Colina

ROME, FEB. 2, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Pope Pius XII was again in the news this week, as researchers presented two documents that were interpreted as putting the Pope in a negative light regarding his response to the Holocaust.

As ZENIT reported Monday, a brief document was presented as a new find dated Oct. 19, 1943. The document is a telegram from American diplomat Harold Tittmann on his meeting with the Pope.

The document does not mention the Oct. 16 raid on the Jews of Rome, wherein more than 1,000 of the city’s Jews were rounded up and deported to Auschwitz.

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I pray that this item of news is as widely disseminated as the error it is correcting.
 
Nah, it’ll be treated the same as Archbishop Pell of Sydney. When he was accused of child molestation the headline read

PELL ACCUSED

When the police investigation turned up nothing and the accusations proven to be unfounded the story was barely a column inch buried on page 16 with a tiny banner

Pell cleared
 
Too true… heck even the article states that this finding is NOT NEW!
Moreover, though the Oct. 14 document was presented as a new find, historians were already aware of it because it was published in 1964, with the incorrect date.
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It is in the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) collection, in Volume II of 1943, on page 950.

In his blog, Andrea Tornielli, Vatican expert of the Italian daily “Il Giornale,” points out that the researchers who presented this “new document,” Giuseppe Casarrubea and Mario Cereghino, have already made such “revelations” in the past.

“In October of 2008,” he reported, “they presented as unpublished a document to use it against Pius XII (it was also referred to by ANSA [news] agency) and later they had to apologize.”
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So by and large these retractions will be buried on page 7… with new Accusations on Page 1.
 
If you read the Zenit article that is linked to in the original post, you’ll find that Prof. Ronald Rychlak, an expert on Pius XII, is quoted.

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