Editor of Vatican Paper Says Communists and Catholic Progressives Maligned Pius XII

ROME, JUNE 15, 2009 (Zenit.org).- The director of the Vatican’s semi-official daily newspaper L’Osservatore Romano contends that the Black Legend surrounding Pope Pius XII and Nazism has two causes: Communist propaganda and division within the Church.  Giovanni Maria Vian affirmed this when he talked with ZENIT about a book that he edited titled “In Difesa di Pio XII: Le Ragioni della Storia” (In Defense of Pius XII: The Reasons of History).  Full article here.