Rome Jewish leader presses pope on Pius XII 'silence'
An Italian Jewish leader, addressing Pope Benedict during his first visit to Rome's synagogue, on Sunday told him bluntly that his wartime predecessor should have spoken out against the Holocaust.
"The silence of Pius XII before the Shoah still hurts because something should have been done," Riccardo Pacifici, president of Rome's Jewish community told the pope, using the Hebrew word for the Holocaust. (Reuters)
