The Pope Gets a Free Pass on the Vatican's Holocaust Business Deals
President Biden canceled his trip to Italy and his meeting tomorrow with Pope Francis to focus on the federal response to the California wildfires.
The cancelled meeting is a missed opportunity for the second Catholic president in U.S. history to press the Pope to release the Vatican Bank’s World War II archives. Those documents hold the secrets about how the Catholic Church profited from wartime investments in Third Reich and Italian Fascist companies and the extent of its role as a postwar haven for looted Nazi funds.
An organization of which I am a director, Antisemitism Watch, had joined with other groups in beseeching Mr. Biden to raise the Vatican Bank files with the 88-year-old Pope. Administration officials would not commit to putting it on the meeting’s schedule, nor did they say it was off limits. Biden would have had a chance to turn the meeting into a breakthrough on a dark chapter of history.
The Vatican has long stonewalled efforts to discover what is inside the Vatican…
