Title: Faked Facts
Product review: Other reviewers have pointed out the distortions used by the author. What is most disturbing, however, is the fabrication of evidence by the author.One example: The author claims that toward the end of his life John XXIII had a conversation with a priest who asked him: "How are we going to refute the charges against Pius XII's silence during World War II?" According to the tale, John XXIII answered: "How can we refute the truth?"In fact, such a conversation never occurred. And the author knows it. In an earlier book Carroll had cited this legend and immediately said that it was apocryphal. No biographer of John XXIII had ever heard such a phrase. In fact John XXII had told several journalists that his own rescue work for Jews in Turkey had been done at the express command of Pius XII. He had bitterly condemned those who were beginning to weave the legend of Pius' "silence" in the early '60's.
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