Meanwhile, the partisan rhetoric by both sides seeking to castblame on the other continued unabated, signaling continued political brinksmanship over tax and spending issues beginning with the March 27 deadline for Congress to authorize funding to run the government until the current fiscal year ends on September 30.
But the Vatican does not accept Pius XII was culpable of assenting to the Holocaust, and - even if it did - it would be impossible to castblame on a pope whom the current pope has begun moves to beatify.