is this long :))
Step-by-step explanation
In a handful of other worldsāparticularly conservative Catholic onesāthe essay did quite well. But those were the worlds that hardly needed it. For people of that persuasion, the omnipresent assault on Pius XII drives them toward the worst possibilities for their communities: a dread that rampant anti-Catholicism is shortly to unleash itself upon them, a hunger to flee to small fellowships of the saved and away from the corruption of the public square, an embracing of a self-image as victims, and a belief that a dark cloud rests over the sum of modern times. āEven a Jewish writerāand a rabbi, tooāsees the slander for what it is,ā they say. And thereby they confirm, for those whom the essay only angered, that David Dalin let himself be used as a Jew to advance a sectarian Catholic agenda (mine, presumably, although my friends have had the courtesy not to say that to my face). And so the whole coil curls up around itself once more, and we get no forwarder.
Perhaps a book that collected the best reviews would help. However large it personally looms, the part played by David and me was small. The attempt to sift through the endless stream of books about Pius XII in recent years was actually carried out by indefatigable reviewers in dozens of magazines and journals, responding to the texts one by one.The controversy also motivated additional research, and new material now seems to arrive every week. As far as I can tell, all this recent information tells in favor of Pius XII. A recently discovered 1923 letter to the Vatican from Eugenio Pacelli, then nuncio to Germany, for instance, denounces Hitlerās putsch and warns against his anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism. A document from April 1933, just months after Hitler obtained power, reveals how Pacelli (then secretary of state) ordered the new German nuncio, Cesare Orsenigo, to protest Nazi actions.
Meanwhile, newly examined diplomatic documents show that in 1937 Cardinal Pacelli warned A. W. Klieforth, the American consul to Berlin, that Hitler was āan untrustworthy scoundrel and fundamentally wicked person,ā to quote Klieforth, who also wrote that Pacelli ādid not believe Hitler capable of moderation, and . . . fully supported the German bishops in their anti-Nazi stand.ā This was matched with the discovery of Pacelliās anti-Nazi report, written the following year for President Roosevelt and filed with Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, which declared that the Church regarded compromise with the Third Reich as āout of the question.āArchives from American espionage agencies have recently confirmed Pius XIIās active involvement in plots to overthrow Hitler. A pair of newly found letters, written in 1940 on the letterhead of the Vaticanās Secretariat of State, give Pius XIIās orders that financial assistance be sent to Campagna for the explicit purpose of assisting interned Jews suffering from Mussoliniās racial policies. And the Israeli government has finally released Adolf Eichmannās diaries, portions of which confirm the Vaticanās obstruction of the Nazisā roundup of Romeās Jews.
Thereās more, a regular flow of new material. Intercepts of Nazi communications released from the United Statesā National Archives include such passages as āVatican has apparently for a long time been assisting many Jews to escape,ā in a Nazi dispatch from Rome to Berlin on October 26, 1943, ten days after the Germanyās Roman roundup. New oral testimony from such Catholic rescuers as Monsignor John Patrick Carroll-Abbing, Sister Mathilda Spielmann, Father Giacomo Martegani, and Don Aldo Brunacci insists that Pius XII gave them explicit orders and direct assistance to help persecuted Jews in Italy. The posthumous publication this year of Harold Tittmannās memoir, Inside the Vatican of Pius XII , is particularly interesting, for in it the American diplomat reveals, for the first time, that Pius XIIās wartime conduct drew upon advice from the German resistance.
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