Doctor of history and professor at the military school of Saint-Cyr, author of many remarkable works, Frédéric Le Moal notably published “Pie XII, a pope for France: investigation of the 1939 conclave” (Le Cerf, 2019).
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Can there be two popes more different from each other than Francis and Pius XII?
However, the reproaches formulated against the Argentine pope about his extremely cautious attitude in the war in Ukraine are strangely reminiscent of those addressed to Pius XII who reigned during the Second World War.
We know the grievances about him: supposed passivity in the face of the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis, in particular in the face of the genocide of the Jews, difficulty in clearly naming the aggressor, immoderate use of periphrases, policy of expectation in the name of political calculations who would be unworthy of the successor of Saint Peter and the vicar of Christ.
The trial began as soon as Italy invaded Albania in April 1939, when Emmanuel Mounier blamed the silence of the Holy Father…
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