Kevin M. Doyle

The story of Occupied Rome has never dovetailed well with the portrait of Pius XII as indifferent to the fate of European Jews. Between ten thousand and twelve thousand Jews resided in Rome as the Nazis took over the city in September 1943. When initially the Nazis extorted gold from the . . . . Continue Reading »

On February 10, 1997, Father Robert Graham, S.J., an indefatigable defender of Pope Pius XII against posthumous charges of indifference toward the wartime fate of European Jews, died in a California Jesuit community. He was eighty-four.Several aspects of Graham’s life are striking. He had not . . . . Continue Reading »