 A number of other scholars replied with favourable accounts of Pius XII , including Margherita Marchione 's Yours Is a Precious Witness : Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy ( 1997 ) , Pope Pius XII : Architect for Peace ( 2000 ) and Consensus and Controversy : Defending Pope Pius XII ( 2002 ) ; Pierre Blet 's Pius XII and the Second World War , According to the Archives of the Vatican ( 1999 ) ; and Ronald J. Rychlak 's Hitler , the War and the Pope ( 2000 ) . Ecclesiastical historian William Doino ( author of The Pius War : Responses to the Critics of Pius XII ) , concluded that Pius was " emphatically not silent " . Other important works challenging the negative characterization of Pius 's legacy were written by Eamon Duffy , Clifford Longley , Cardinal Winning , Michael Burleigh , Paul Johnson , and Denis Mack Smith . 
