Are there differences between European, and in particular Italian, historiography on Pius XII, and American?
Mieli: According to me, yes. We must not forget that this aversion toward Pius XII was born in the Anglo-Saxon, Protestant world. It did not come from the Jewish world, which instead adapted itself over time in order to avoid a counter attack by an international campaign. To put it in another way: if the Pope is accused of letting anti-Semitism run free, obviously the Jewish world feels duty bound to see things clearly. Thus we come to the episode of the seventh hall of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, where a photograph of the Pope appears with a caption that describes his behaviour as “ambiguous”. Or to the request, in 1998, by of the ambassador of Israel to the Holy See at the time, Aaron Lopez, to put a moratorium on the beatification of Pius XII. Now, for this matter, I have nothing to do with it because the moratorium is not a historiographical issue. But there is something excessively obstinate about attitudes toward this Pope, and it stinks from a mile away. Since 1963 the spotlight wa
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