Cardinal Bertone invites Jewish leaders, scholars to analyze Pius XII archives
May 25, 2009
Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone has invited World Jewish Congress leaders and scholars to help analyze the private archives of Pope Pius XII, according to a May 22 statement. “The cardinal-secretary of state invited the World Jewish Congress leaders and Jewish scholars to cooperate in the examination of the private archives of Pope Pius XII for the period prior to 1939, and said that the Vatican was making progress in working to have everything in place to make available Pius’ papers of the crucial period 1939 to 1945 to historians,” the statement noted.
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