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| | Pope Pius XI and the Jewish Question - Richard L. Rubenstein |
 | | Until recently, Achille Ratti, Pope Pius XI (1857--1939), has had fewer critics than his successor, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, whose role during the Holocaust has been the subject of heated controversy for almost four decades. |
 | | As a result, Pius XI came to be depicted as the "good pope," firmly opposed to anti-Semitism, in contrast to Pius XII. |
 | | Both popes were fully conscious of their historic role as guardians of the church, the most important religious institution in the Western world, in an era of maximum danger. |
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