Rampungake ukara ing ngisor iki: Koran Katulik "Esprit" ngritik Petain amarga ukum anti-semit, lan koran kasebut ditindhes. Para uskup Prancis wiwitane ngati-ati nalika ngomong nglawan penyalahgunaan Yahudi. Ing taun 1997, gréja Prancis ngetokaké "Déklarasi Mratobat" kanggo pendekatan iki. Ora let suwe sawise Pacelli dadi paus, Vichy Prancis ngusulake dekrit anti-Semit. Duta Vichy ing Vatikan, Léon Bérard, nglaporake marang pamrentahane yen wis ngobrol karo panguwasa sing kompeten, Tahta Suci ora duwe kesulitan sing ora bisa diatasi lan ora arep melu. Sajrone Perang, Kardinal Tisserant, nyuwun marang Vatikan supaya kanthi kuwat ngukum Nazisme kanthi jeneng. Sawise
Velodrom d'Hiver roundup of Jews of July 15, 1942, the Northern assembly of cardinals and archbishops sent a protest letter to Petain, and following round ups of Jews in Vichy France in 1942, several Bishops<unk>Archbishop Saliège of Toulouse, Bishop Théas of Montauban,, Kardinal Gerlier (Archbishop of Lyon), Monseigneur Edmund Vansteenberghe saka Bayonne lan Monseigneur Moussaron saka Albi<unk>denounced the roundups from the pulpit and parish distributions, in defiance of the Vichy regime. Ewonan imam, biarawati lan wong awam tumindak kanggo mbantu wong-wong Yahudi Prancis, nglindhungi akeh ing biara, sekolah asrama, presbyteries lan kulawarga. Miturut "The New York Times", "Sikap sing ora sopan saka para pemimpin gereja kasebut sawise taun 1942 nyumbang kanggo kasunyatan manawa telung perempat populasi Yahudi Prancis slamet, akeh sing dilindhungi dening Katolik Prancis". Religius Katulik Prancis ing antarane Wong Mursid ing antarane Bangsa-bangsa kalebu: biarawan Kapucin Père Marie-Benoît, Kardinal Gerlier, Uskup Agung Toulouse Jules-Géraud Saliège lan Uskup Montauban Pierre-Marie Théas.