No 'smoking gun' in wartime archives of Pius XII on Holocaust, Vatican says

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican will on March 2 open up its archives on the wartime pontificate of Pius XII to allow scholars to probe accusations that he turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, but they will find he helped Jews behind the scenes, Holy See officials say.

“I don’t think you will find a smoking gun,” Father Norbert Hofmann, the top Vatican official in charge of religious relations with Jews, told Reuters in an interview in his office.

Jews have for many years been seeking transparency from the Vatican on its actions during the Holocaust, and the order from Pope Francis to open the archives will allow historians and other scholars to peruse them for the next few years.
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Archives open March 2nd, so soon.
 
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There hasn’t been much movement on his beatification/canonization so maybe this will help things get going again. I’m hopeful that this will vindicate Pius XII and at least put off some of the criticism. Sure there will always be people who will never be satisfied but there might be enough to at least overcome internal Church opposition, which is what really matters.
 
They can’t really move forward until all the scholars have a reasonable opportunity to go through all the archives. Whenever there is anything political involved, it takes much longer to canonize someone. I am quite sure Pope Pius XII was a holy person though and will eventually be canonized, it will just take a while.
 
It os often forgotten that when he was Nuncio in Munich he was instrumental in getting the authorities to quash Hitler’s Bierkeller Putsch
 
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