Vatican newspaper's World War II editions go online

(May 29, 2010) A New-York based organization has received permission from the Vatican's semi-official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, to publish online its archived editions from 1938 to 1945. The “Pave the Way Foundation”, a non-sectarian organization whose mission is to identify and try to eliminate obstacles between religions and to initiate positive gestures in order to improve inter-religious relations, has been working to discover the facts regarding Pope Pius XII and his efforts to help Jews during World War II. The Pope who headed the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958 is being promoted for sainthood. However, many Jews object to it saying the wartime pope didn't do enough to protect Jews from the Holocaust. “Pave the Way Foundation” has been working to retrieve and publicize as many documents as possible to expose the truth of the secret and public action of the Holy See during World War II.