“In those moments of war, there were no distinctions. They were all lives that needed to be saved. We as the Church had to help them.”

Cardinal remembers Pope Pius XII as wartime hero, saint (2 August 2012) Catholic News Agency https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/25402/cardinal-remembers-pope-pius-xii-as-wartime-hero-saint

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Catholic cardinal 1916–2014

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