The first American canonized by the Roman Catholic Church — just like the first American chosen as pope — once walked among the people of Chicago.

After more than a decade without its most famous vacationer, the quiet town of Castel Gandolfo once again counts the pope among its summer residents.

1946: Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized by Pope Pius XII as the first American saint. The Italian-American nun ...

First, he reassures the pilgrims who are crossing the Holy Door in the patriarchal basilicas in 'this great heat.' Then he ...

Welcomed by the Cardinal Archbishop, don Mimmo Battaglia, will be in Casoria next Saturday, July 5th, to commemorate, eighty ...

Being the oldest university in Asia, the University of Santo Tomas (UST) served as home to prominent personalities and ...

A newly uncovered letter from Vatican archives suggests World War II-era Pope Pius XII was aware that thousands of Jews were being killed in Nazi gas chambers.

Pope Pius XII was no saint. The Vatican shouldn’t make him one. The head of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust maintained good ties with Hitler rather than speak up as Jews were murdered ...

A series of recently opened Vatican archives are shedding new light on the relationship between Pope Pius XII and Hitler as he led Nazi Germany during World War II. A new book takes a deeper look ...

The first scholarship is beginning to emerge about the World War II-era Pope Pius XII, two years after the Vatican opened its archives.

The Vatican has long defended its World War II-era pope, Pius XII, against criticism that he remained silent as the Holocaust unfolded, insisting that he worked quietly behind the scenes to save ...

Pius XI died in early 1939, much to Hitler’s and Mussolini’s relief. Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, who had been the secretary of state, was elected pope, taking the name Pius XII.