Word: leiber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jesuit Leiber admits that Pius "found it difficult" to speak out clearly against the murders, but adds, "This was providential. Otherwise, I fear greater harm would have been the result." Catholics point out that after the Dutch bishops issued a joint pastoral letter attacking the deportation of Jews, the Nazis retaliated by arresting Catholic converts from Judaism. In 1942 Cracow's Archbishop Adam Sapieha pleaded with the Vatican not to broadcast accounts of German atrocities since it would only make things harder for his people...
VIRGINIA BRONSON LEIBER Pacific Palisades, Calif...