Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bettmann/getty; INTERCONTINENTALE/AFP via Getty Pope Pius XII (left), Pope Pius XII being laid to rest at funeral in 1958 ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Pius XII was not silent in front of the Shoah nor inactive. He was, instead, very much committed to saving Jewish families, spoke out constantly against the Nazi Regime, and set up ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s archives on the pontificate of Venerable Pius XII will become available for study March 2, possibly bringing to light new information about the pope’s actions during World ...

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ROME — 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 each day in ...

Two new documents concerning Pius XII and the Holocaust unearthed in an English archive seem destined to add fuel to the fire of an already polarized debate about the World War II-era pope’s alleged ...

One day in late October 1941, Pope Pius XII received chilling news. A bishop in Slovakia wrote to say that the country’s Jews “are simply being shot … systematically murdered, without distinction of ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Pius XII, the wartime pope whose alleged "silence" on the Holocaust has long been a sore point in Jewish/Catholic relations as well as in internal ...

The newly discovered letter, written by a German Jesuit to Pope Pius XII’s personal secretary, suggests that the pope knew of Hitler’s atrocities but chose to remain silent. By Elisabetta Povoledo The ...

Books are pictured in a cabinet in the Vatican Secret Archives. After decades of anticipation, the Vatican is opening its archives on the World War II pontificate of Pope Pius XII. (CNS photo/Vatican ...

An Israeli official who caused a storm in the Jewish world by praising Pope Pius XII for saving Jews during World War Two backtracked on Sunday, saying his judgement was "historically premature". The ...