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The Vatican on Saturday called on both Catholics and Jews to stop piling “pressure” on Pope Benedict over whether he should or should not promote the sainthood of his controversial Nazi-era predecessor Pius XII. Pius, who reigned from...

]]> The Vatican on Saturday called on both Catholics and Jews to stop piling “pressure” on Pope Benedict over whether he should or should not promote the sainthood of his controversial Nazi-era predecessor Pius XII.

Pius, who reigned from 1939 to 1958, has been accused by some Jews of turning a blind eye to the Holocaust during World War II, a charge his supporters and the Vatican deny.

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