Pius XII: a reappraisal

Minerbi thinks that Pius XII's diplomatic training, fear of provoking a schism in the German Church, and his belief that the Nazis could devastate the supreme interests of the Catholic Church led to his position regarding the Nazi state, which involved compliance, opportunism and silence. Questions about Pius XII and his actions during World War II remain moral issues. "Vatican diplomacy failed the Jews during the Holocaust by not doing all that it was possible for it to do" (Morley)