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« Reply #120 on: April 24, 2009, 07:01:57 am »









                                                    Pius XII files to be opened



                                      Collection by late Vatican expert on wartime pope






 (ANSA)
- Rome,
April 23, 2009

- A collection of documents that could shed new light on the role of controversial wartime pope Pius XII in helping Jews is set to be opened up to scholars.

Some of the files belonging to late Jesuit priest Robert Graham would not otherwise have been made available until 2013, when the Vatican completes sorting out its WWII archives.

In the past, many Jews have stressed that a full verdict on the pope accused of keeping quiet on the Holocaust, and nonetheless up for sainthood, would only be possible when those archives are opened.

News of the decision by the head of Father Graham's Jesuit order was hailed by the inter-religious Pave the Way Foundation which will have exclusive access to the files.

''I'm very, very enthusiastic (about the project),'' foundation president Gary Krupp, a Jew, told the Catholic News Service.

One of the researchers who will start digitally scanning the documents this summer said the collection included ''very promising'' material.

Until he died in 1997, Father Graham was considered the Vatican's top expert on what Pius did in the war.

The Vatican has been building evidence of how Pius helped Jews in Italy - although may Jewish organisations will still not accept the argument that he kept silent on the Shoah for fear of provoking the Nazis into even greater savagery.

Last month Father Peter Gumpel, the so-called 'postulator' of Pius's cause for beatification, said a newly discovered document urged Rome nuns to shelter whoever was being ''persecuted''.

Gumpel said the document - together with a similar one sent to then bishop of Assisi, Monsignor Giuseppe Nicolini - proved that Pius did all he could to help Jews during the Nazi occupation of Italy.

The accusations by critics that he did nothing to prevent the infamous round-up of 1,022 Jews in the Rome Ghetto on October 16,1943 was ''an absolute falsehood,'' Gumpel said.
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