Unsealed records of Pope Pius XII could shed light on Vatican's turbulent postwar years
March 6, 2019 PRI's The World
Faculty Fellow David Kertzer joined PRI's The World to discuss the recent announcement made by Pope Francis that the Vatican will unseal the records of Pope Pius XII. "The question is, how he might have tried to accommodate to Nazi rule. So the criticism against him wasn't that he was pro-Nazi, which he certainly was not."
Additional news coverage includes:
The Secrets That Might Be Hiding in the Vatican's Archives – The Atlantic
Pope Francis to open World War II-era Vatican archives to scrutiny - The Washington Post