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  • ANDREA RICCARDI

    CORRIERE DELLA SERA / THE WORLD

Updated Tuesday, May 12, 2020 - 22:22

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  • The Vatican. Pius XII, between the shadow of Nazism or the salvation of Jews

On October 10, 1941, Pius XII received Monsignor Angelo Roncalli, from Istanbul, who noted in his diary: "He asked me if his silence on the behavior of Nazism was being condemned." That word "silence" is used today by Pacelli's critics. But the Pope himself was already using it during the war, as a conscious, albeit painful, choice.Before Roncalli, Pacelli had received Luciana Frassati, a Polish anti-fascist activist, who told him

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