 During the war , Time magazine credited Pius XII and the Catholic Church for " fighting totalitarianism more knowingly , devoutly and authoritatively , and for a longer time , than any other organised power " . During the war he was also praised editorially by the New York Times for opposing Nazi anti @-@ Semitism and aggression . According to Paul O 'Shea , " The Nazis demonised the Pope as the agent of international Jewry ; the Americans and British were continually frustrated because he would not condemn Nazi aggression ; and the Russians accused him of being an agent of Fascism and the Nazis . " 
