My friends at The New Republic ran an unfortunate review of a recent book about the Vatican's dealings with the Third Reich. I do not come to praise Pius XII and there is no need to bury him, as he ...

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News that Pope Pius XII is now a step closer to sainthood has reignited debate over the wartime pontiff, and non-experts could be forgiven for thinking there’s a pretty big hole in most discussion.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Pius XII was not silent in front of the Shoah nor inactive. He was, instead, very much committed to saving Jewish families, spoke out constantly against the Nazi Regime, and set up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Pius XII blessing a crowd gathered in the Vatican in 1954.Bettmann A newly-uncovered Vatican 1942 letter suggests that ...

The world at large will note the 70th Anniversary of Pius XII’s coronation on March 12, 2009, and commemorate the day Eugenio Pacelli received the papal tiara as Pope Pius XII. His coat of arms showed ...

Says William Doino, who writes for Inside the Vatican and contributed to The Pius War, in a lengthy piece in the London Times today. It’s one of the most concise, and well-documented defenses of the ...

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Pope Benedict XVI’s mostly warm but sometimes chilly relationship with the worldwide Jewish community may have just hit a major ice patch. On Thursday, Benedict put his moral weight (though not yet ...

Click to open image viewer. Vatican City issued a set of six stamps on May 26, 1954, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1854 proclamation of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception by Bl. Pope ...

The newly discovered letter, written by a German Jesuit to Pope Pius XII’s personal secretary, suggests that the pope knew of Hitler’s atrocities but chose to remain silent. By Elisabetta Povoledo The ...