Pius XII Proposed as Righteous among the nations

Information released from the Vatican archives in recent years is succeeding in making more and more people aware of the Pius XII's efforts to save Jews during the second World War. Though in the years immediately following WWII the efforts of the pope toward this end seemed to be fairly widely acknowledged; for the past decade following the publication of the poorly researched and biased Hitler's Pope by British author John Cornwell, the reputation of the late pontiff has been much maligned.
For this reason I find it encouraging that the Pave the Way Foundation has announced a petition to recognize Pope Pius XII as Righteous Among the Nations at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. (story here)