 In 2005 , Corriere della Sera published a document dated 20 November 1946 on the subject of Jewish children baptized in war @-@ time France . The document ordered that baptized children , if orphaned , should be kept in Catholic custody and stated that the decision " has been approved by the Holy Father " . Nuncio Angelo Roncalli ( who became Pope John XXIII , and was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations ) ignored this directive . Abe Foxman , the national director of the Anti @-@ Defamation League ( ADL ) , who had himself been baptized as a child and had undergone a custody battle afterwards , called for an immediate freeze on Pius 's beatification process until the relevant Vatican Secret Archives and baptismal records were opened . Two Italian scholars , Matteo Luigi Napolitano and Andrea Tornielli , confirmed that the memorandum was genuine although the reporting by the Corriere della Sera was misleading , as the document had originated in the French Catholic Church archives rather than the Vatican archives and strictly concerned itself with children without living blood relatives who were supposed to be handed over to Jewish organizations . 
