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1. @DavidKertzer—author of the Pulitzer-winning 'The Pope and Mussolini’—explains the significance of Pope Francis’s decision to open the Pius XII records to researchers: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@DavidKertzer 2. Some of the biggest revelations may come *after* World War II, during the years when Pius XII labored to turn Italian opinion against Communism: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
@DavidKertzer 3. Lost in the initial news? The Vatican will also open records from the central archives of the Jesuits and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (née, the Holy Office of the Inquisition) theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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This, from @TimothyNoah1 back in 2007, is the obituary that Fred Malek deserves: slate.com/news-and-polit…
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