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TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2009

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Jesuits to open key archives on Pius XII to US researchers

Jesuit Superior-General Fr Adolfo Nicolas has decided to open the

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archives of late American priest, Fr Robert Graham, an expert on Pope

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Pius XII, to researchers from the Pave the Way Foundation.

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Pave the Way describes itself on its website as "a non-sectarian public foundation, which identifies and eliminates non-theological obstacles between the faiths."

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Graham's collection comprises more than 25,000 pages of testimony and documents dealing with the actions of Pius XII, who served as pope between 1939, when World War II started, and 1958, the European Jewish Press reports. The documents could show how he had helped European Jews escape the Holocaust, L'Osservatore reported.

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resist the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Graham was one of the few researchers to be granted access to the secret Vatican archives.

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The Pave the Way Foundation has already gathered documents in an effort to show that Pius XII intervened both publicly and in private to try to save Jews and to get Catholic institutions in various countries to come to their aid. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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