Mario Galgano
Vatican News, Feb. 2022
“… there are still people who say that they cannot imagine that, for 70 years we have believed what was wrong, and now it is supposed to be different. I encounter this skepticism often, both inside and outside the Church.”
The chief archivist of the Bundestag (German parliament), Michael Feldkamp, has been involved in historical research on Pope Pius XII for several years.
Feldkamp has published on topics such as the Cologne nunciature and papal diplomacy, as well as articles on the relationship between the Catholic Church and National Socialism.
His book “Pius XII and Germany”, published in the year 2000, aimed to bring his complex research to a wider audience, and was also intended as a response to John Cornwell’s book “Pius XII – The Pope Who Remained Silent”. Feldkamp collaborates with Vatican Archivist Johannes Icks.
Q: Dr. Feldkamp, you have been in the Vatican archives in the last few days and have seen some hitherto unknown documents on Pius XII and Eugenio Pacelli. What do you think is new in the research on Pius XII that the general public does not know yet?
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