The full title of the document — Exsul Familia Nazarethana, or “The Exiled Nazarene Family” — refers to Jesus, Mary and ...

Pius’ actions during the Holocaust have been the subject of debate for decades. (JTA) — A newly uncovered letter provides the strongest evidence yet that Pope Pius XII knew about the Nazi ...

The Israeli consul, Pinchas E. Lapide, in his book, Three Popes and the Jews (New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1967) critically examines Pope Pius XII. According to his research, the Catholic ...

(JTA) — The Vatican secret archive relating to controversial Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII will be opened next ... him of having turned a blind eye to Jewish suffering. The Vatican maintains ...

Curiously, it was Italy’s Jews who first led me to work in the ... Eugenio Pacelli would take the name Pius XII, honoring the man at whose bedside he had recently wept. From “The Pope and Mussolini: ...

Most recently, scholars have been flocking to the archive to read through the documents of the pontificate of Pope Pius XII, the wartime ... about the creation of a Jewish state.

What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by a man who ...

During the times of the Nazi regime, about 15,000 Jewish people from all over Europe asked Pope Pius XII and the Vatican for help. The petitions submitted were authored by women and men, by children ...

Pope Pius XII was reviled for his silence in the face of Nazism during and after World War II, and was thus often dubbed "Hitler's Pope." However, a new book, "Church of Spies" by Mark Riebling ...