Vatican opens archives in a bid to improve image of Pius XII

Friday, February 14, 2003

VATICAN CITY -- For years the Vatican has struggled to defend its wartime pope, Pius XII, against claims he was anti-Semitic and didn't do enough to save Jews from the Holocaust.

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