Trial of Silence Pope Pius XII, Antisemitism, and the Judgment of History

For more than half a century, historians, theologians, and moral philosophers have wrestled with one of the most consequential questions of the twentieth century: What was the true role of Pope Pius XII during the Holocaust?Was he a cautious diplomat working behind the scenes to save Jewish lives? Or did silence—shaped in part by longstanding currents of Catholic antisemitism—amount to a failure o...