Promising: Vatican to Public Selection of Secret Documents

This is good news.

A confidence building measure, especially at a time when Pius is being considered once again for sainthood.

This is one of the issues that Jews and Catholics will likely never, ever come to terms with-but transparency in the conversation would be a very good thing.

Pope Visits Rome Synagogue

I've read a lot about this period in history, and although Jews and Catholics have made great progress in their friendship with one another, in my opinion-the subject of Pius and his role in saving, or not saving Jews is just one of the subject that we will never agree upon.

In fact, I would put it pretty much second to the discussion about whether or not the Messiah is yet to come, or is coming back a second time.

I believe that unfettered access, for a limited number of Holocaust researchers, to the Vatican archives, would be the only way to break the impasse.