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: ...

Many welcomed his opening of the documents concerning Pope Pius XII’s leadership and silences during the Holocaust — Pius never publicly condemned the Nazi genocide against the Jews.

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 ...

But in 2014 Pope Francis said Pius XII was “a great defender of Jews” and had ordered the Church to hide Jews in the convents of Rome and other Italian cities, as well as the papal residence ...

Visit the homepage for more information. It is generally held by scholars that Pope Pius XII made very significant and notable contributions to Marian theology, public piety and devotion to Our Lady.

Since the end of World War II, the Vatican has tried hard to make up for its centuries of attacks on the Jewish people, including the Crusades, the Inquisition, priest-incited pogroms, and ...