Jan 12, 2005 / 22:00 pm
The Anti-Defamation League is preparing a letter that it will send to the Vatican requesting that Church plans to beatify Pope Pius XII be put on hold until scholars can review all wartime-era Vatican records, reported The Jewish Week.
Abraham Foxman, national director of the league, made the announcement after the Italian daily Corriere della Sera published a letter Dec. 28, claiming it was written by the Vatican.
The letter, dated Oct. 23, 1946, told French churches not to return Jewish children to their families if they had been baptized during the Holocaust.
The one-page, typewritten letter is unsigned and states that it received papal approval. However, it has not been attributed to the hand of Pope Pius XII.