Rev. Robert Graham; Vatican Historian

The Rev. Robert Graham, 84, a Jesuit priest and historian who specialized in Vatican diplomacy during World War II. Graham dedicated his career to poring over documents in the Vatican’s archives to try to shed light on a question that fellow historians have wrestled with for decades: did the Holy See, and specifically Pope Pius XII, make adequate attempts to save Jews and combat Nazism and Fascism. Ordained in 1942, Graham started his research into social, historical and diplomatic issues as vice director of the American Jesuit magazine America. He later published many of his findings in Civilta Cattolica, an Italian Jesuit weekly. On Tuesday in Los Gatos, Calif.