On a Jewish holiday and the sabbath, Oct. 16, 1943, German forces rounded-up more than 1,250 men, women and children in Rome for deportation to extermination camps in Poland.
Those who were Jewish -- 1,022 of them -- were detained for two days
The era of divisive debate about Pope Pius XII has been left behind, and now Catholics and Jews, historians and theologians must take up serious and collaborative study, said the co-organizer of a major conference looking at the early results of new
The letter found is important, the archivist said, because it not only details Nazi crimes at the Belzec extermination camp in 1942, but it refers to other reports and mentions Auschwitz, suggesting that the letter is probably part of much more correspondence
In a new essay for Our Sunday Visitor, contributing editor Russell Shaw examines two new books that explore the Church’s role — and specifically Pope Pius XII’s actions — in rebuking the policies of Nazi Germany and protecting the lives of European
“Hitler’s Pope.” This is the charge often levelled at Pope Pius XII, who was pope from 1939-58. It is not new, and recently, the Washington Post ran an article repeating the claim that Pius XII was “Hitler’s Pope,” arguing that Pius knew
Since March 2, all the documents in the Vatican archives relating to the pontificate of Pope Pius XII are open for consultation by scholars who wish to study the history of the Church and the Vatican in that period. However, the Archives
On January 27, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the liberation of the survivors of Auschwitz, the United Nations hosted their first ever event dedicated to “Remembering the Holocaust: The Documented Efforts of the Catholic Church to Save Lives.” The event, which took place
While opening the Vatican archives on Pius XII may not resolve division, it will bring about answers
It was a flat sense of duty to Our Sunday Visitor’s readers some years ago when I was in Poland working on a series of articles about the recovery of Polish Catholicism after 50 years of communism. To give readers a clear
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Declaring that the Catholic Church is unafraid of history, Pope Francis announced that documents in the Vatican Secret Archives relating to the wartime pontificate of Pope Pius XII will be open to scholars in 2020. Researchers, particularly those