Francis searches for secrets of Holocaust pope [View all]
Source: The Sunday Times
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POPE FRANCIS wants to open the Vatican’s secret archives on Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust before deciding on sainthood for the controversial wartime pontiff, accused by critics of having turned a blind eye to the extermination of 6m Jews.
Abraham Skorka, an Argentinian rabbi and friend of Francis, said he discussed Pius XII with the Pope during a week he spent in September at St Martha’s House, the papal residence. It was the first time a pope and a rabbi have lived under the same roof in the Vatican.
Asked whether Francis would open the wartime archives, as Jewish leaders have long demanded, Skorka, 63, told The Sunday Times: “The Pope is consistent with all he said as a cardinal, and as pope he will undoubtedly make happen what he said he would do when he was a cardinal.
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