WWII, Jewish Children, and the Church

ZENIT reports that "the latest in a series of accusations about Pope Pius XII's behavior vis-à-vis the Jews and Nazi persecution seems to have little basis in fact.

"The latest round began Dec. 28 when an Italian newspaper published passages of an alleged 1946 Vatican document that supposedly aimed to keep baptized Jewish children from being returned to their families. The text, as stated in Il Corriere della Sera by Alberto Melloni, director of the G. Dossetti Library of the John XXIII Foundation for Religious Sciences of Bologna, was 'a disposition of the Holy Office,' as the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was formerly known. The document was said to be dated Oct. 20, 1946.

"But after careful research, ZENIT discovered that the document, in fact, was not of the Holy Office and did not bear evidence of the reported date. Nor did it state what the article in Il Corriere said it did."

(Hat tip to Santificarnos)

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