The Municipal Council here has banned the controversial play, “The Deputy,” which portrays the late Pope Pius XII as acting passively in the face of the Jewish extermination in World War II.
The play opened at the Buenos Aires La Salle Theater last month but was canceled today by municipal decree.
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