Three expert Q&As about Pope Pius XII's problematic path to sainthood. The road to sainthood is never speedy, but rarely is it as divisive as the campaign to canonize Pope Pius XII. Just last week ...

That’s just one of several reasons why Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to proceed toward the canonization of Pius XII, the church’s World War II-era pope, was so surprising. Another two ...

Pope Pius XII, whose role during the Second World War has long been a subject of Jewish/Christian controversy, is one step closer to sainthood after a vote in the Vatican’s Congregation for the ...

The Vatican has asked those supporting and opposing the beatification of Pope Pius XII to stop pressuring ... one of the promoters of Pope Pius' sainthood cause, said in an interview Oct. 18 ...

Re “Vatican Defends Decision on Status of Wartime Pope” (news article, Dec. 24): Although the Vatican insists that moving Pope Pius XII toward sainthood will not injure Catholic-Jewish ...

Pope Benedict XVI gave World War II pontiff Pius XII a push toward possible sainthood Thursday and defended his memory from accusations that he did little to spare Jews from the Holocaust. IE 11 ...

On Thursday, Benedict put his moral weight (though not yet his signature) behind the cause for sainthood for Pope Pius XII, the wartime Pontiff who many Jewish leaders criticize for not having ...

the Italian cardinal who became Pius XII upon being elected to the papacy on the eve of World War II, dates back to at least 1965 when the Second Vatican Council debated the canonization of his ...

But there is also a historical reason that Pope Francis is interested in Pius XII. When Pope Paul VI started the beatification and canonization process in 1967, nine years after Pius XII's death ...

or as a saint (as in the case of those pushing for his canonization). Rabbi David G. Dalin comes to the latter conclusion in a recent article in the Weekly Standard (February 26). Actually, he does ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Moves to make wartime Pope Pius XII a saint have been delayed ... virtues", a major hurdle in a long process toward sainthood that began in 1967. But Benedict has so ...

(Should Piux XII be a saint?) The guidelines are ... Benedict’s decision to move Pius’ cause for sainthood forward is a declaration that the wartime Pope was a Catholic in good faith, a ...