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The Pope, the Jews, and the secrets in the archives (written by David Kertzer)

In this article, David Kertzer details how newly available Vatican documents — reported here for the first time — reveal the private discussions behind both Pope Pius XII’s silence about the Nazi deportation of Rome’s Jews in 1943 and the Vatican’s postwar support for the kidnapping of two Jewish boys whose parents had perished in the Holocaust.

August 27, 2020 The Atlantic