An Honest Jesuit: Father Gumpel Has Died

Father Peter Gumpel, 98, a Jesuit and historian who cleared up the black legend created by Church haters to discredit Pius XII (+1958), died in Rome on 12 October.

Gumpel was born in Hanover, Germany. He was considered "the living memory of Pius XII", whose "kindness and ability to listen" he often recalled.

Through a mandate from Paul VI, Gumpel had access to all the documentation on the pontificate of Pius XII as early as 1965.

Gumpel showed how Pius XII had also done everything possible to help persecuted Jews during the Second World War. Later, however, many Jewish institutions "thanked" the Pope by slandering him, even though Pius XII had saved more than 100,000 Jews around the world.

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