ROME – One year after an explosive new book reopened what have often been dubbed the “Pius Wars”, meaning debates over Pope Pius XII and his alleged “silence” on the Holocaust, the Vatican and Rome’s Jesuit-sponsored Gregorian University are staging a major international conference on recently released documents from Pius’ reign.
The conference, titled “New Documents from the Pontificate of Pope Pius XII and their Meaning for Jewish- Christian Relations”, will take place in Rome on October 9-11. Among its co-sponsors are the Vatican Archives as well as the Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education and its Commission for Religious Relations with Jews, in tandem with the embassies to the Holy See of both Israel and the United States and the U.S. Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues.
