Wartime Pope Pius XII knew details about the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust as early as 1942, according to a letter found in the Vatican archives that conflicts with the Holy ...

For in it, Hochhuth argues that Pope Pius XII refused to condemn openly the Nazi murder of European Jews because he saw Hitler as a necessary barrier between Soviet Communism and the Christian ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After opening its trove of Pius XII’s papers to ... files containing appeals by Jews fearing Nazi persecution for help from the wartime pope. The decision, announced ...

ROME (AP) — Newly discovered correspondence suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed ...

Saperstein criticized Pope Pius XII for war crime denunciations deprived ... Pius XII himself be credited with church rescue of Roman Jews during the Nazis October 1943 round-up, recounting ...

Doino has spent decades researching the legacy of Pope Pius XII and the wartime pontiff’s efforts to rescue Jews, Allied military personnel, and others pursued by Nazi occupiers. He has ...

A newly-uncovered Vatican 1942 letter suggests that then-Pope Pius XII likely knew about Nazi genocide. The letter describes crematoriums and the mass murder of Jewish and Polish people.

The dispute over whether to beatify Eugenio Pacelli, the Italian cardinal who became Pius XII upon being ... up Rome’s Jews under Pius’s very nose in October 1943, the pope sent an emissary ...

Pope Francis has ordered the online publication of 170 volumes of its Jewish files from the recently opened Pope Pius XII archives, the Vatican announced June 23, amid renewed debate about the ...