Bergen emphasizes that the controversy surrounding Pius XII and the Holocaust reflects a wide range of issues about the place of Chistianity in the world today. The question of silence or even active complicity in mass death, is not one related only to the Holocaust. She raises a fundamental question: what are the responsibilities of the Church in the world? The attention on Pius XII focuses on two related charges: that he was antisemitic and that he remained silent in response to the murder of European Jews