Pope Pius XII still can’t shake off the claims that he was Hitler’s Pope
The situations were very different as were the numbers of victims of different evil regimes. Of Jorge Mario Bergoglio it is claimed that, when he was provincial of the Jesuits in Argentina, he failed to openly condemn the military junta who ruled Argentina with brutality from 1976 to 1983. Of Eugenio Pacelli, it is claimed that as pope, he failed to speak out against Hitler and the Nazi regime. Specifically, Pius XII is accused of failing to unequivocally condemn the Holocaust.
If the two men have their accusers, they also have their defenders. Sergio Rubin, author of The Jesuit (a biography of Bergoglio), said much of the criticism of Bergoglio was misplaced. Under Bergoglio’s leadership, Argentina’s bishops issued a collective apology in Oct 2012 for the Church’s failure to protect its followers.
