Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Jaridar Katolika "Esprit" ta soki Petain saboda dokokinsa na anti-Semitic, kuma an dakatar da takarda. Da farko, limaman Faransawa sun yi taka-tsantsan wajen yin magana game da wulaƙanta Yahudawa. A shekara ta 1997, cocin Faransa ya ba da "Sanarwar Tuba" don wannan hanyar. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan da Pacelli ya zama shugaban Kirista, Faransa ta Vichy ta gabatar da dokoki na ƙiyayya da Yahudawa. Jakadan Vichy a Vatican, Léon Bérard, ya ba da rahoto ga gwamnatinsa cewa da yake ya yi magana da hukumomin da suka dace da Holy See ba shi da wata matsala da ba za a iya shawo kanta ba kuma ba ya da niyyar shiga ciki. A lokacin yakin, Cardinal Tisserant, ya yi kira ga Vatican da ta yi tir da Nazism da sunan. Bayan da
Velodrom d'Hiver roundup na yahudawa na 15 ga Yuli, 1942, Majalisar Arewacin Cardinals da Archbishops sun aika da wasikar nuna rashin amincewa ga Petain, kuma bayan tarzomar yahudawa a Vichy Faransa a 1942, Bishops da yawa - Archbishop Saliège na Toulouse, Bishop Théas na Montauban,, Cardinal Gerlier (Archbishop na Lyon), Monseigneur Edmund Vansteenberghe daga Bayonne da Monseigneur Moussaron na Albi - sun yi tir da tarzomar daga bagade da rarraba Ikklisiya, a cikin ƙalubalantar tsarin Vichy. Dubban firistoci, nuns da talakawa sun yi aiki don taimakawa yahudawan Faransa, suna kare adadi mai yawa a cikin gidajen ibada, makarantu masu zaman kansu, gidajen firistoci da iyalai. In ji jaridar The New York Times, "Halin ƙyamar waɗannan limamai bayan shekara ta 1942 ne ya sa kashi uku cikin huɗu na Yahudawa a Faransa suka tsira, yawancinsu 'yan Katolika ne suka kāre su". Addinin Katolika na Faransa a cikin Masu Adalci a tsakanin Al'ummai sun haɗa da: Capuchin friar Père Marie-Benoît, Cardinal Gerlier, Archbishop na Toulouse Jules-Géraud Saliège da Bishop na Montauban Pierre-Marie Théas.