For virtually fifty years, an argument has raged approximately Pope Pius XII. was once the Pope who had shepherded the Church via global conflict II a Nazi sympathizer? used to be he, as a few have dared name him, Hitler's pope? Did he do not anything to aid the Jewish humans within the grips of the Holocaust?

In a completely researched and meticulously documented research of the ancient checklist, Ronald Rychlak has gotten previous the anger and emotion and exposed the reality approximately Pius XII. not just does he refute the accusations opposed to the Pope, yet for the 1st time records how the slanders opposed to him had their roots in a Soviet Communist crusade to discredit him and, via extension, the Church.

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