The eyes of the mass media will be on Pope Benedict XVI this Sunday when he visits Rome’s synagogue. After the furore among some Jewish leaders following his decree last month declaring Pius XII ...

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 ...

Pope Benedict XVI’s mostly warm but sometimes chilly relationship with the worldwide Jewish community may have just hit a major ice patch. On Thursday, Benedict put his moral weight (though not yet ...

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 ...

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Vatican journalist Andrea Tornielli has rallied to the defense of Pope Pius XII. Israeli Rabbi Shear-Yashuv Cohen, the grand rabbi of Haifa, Israel, unexpectedly interjected the wartime Pope into the ...

Scholars say charges that Pope Pius XII covered-up the Vatican's knowledge of the Holocaust are based on exaggerated claims and do not represent the truth. Fr. Hubert Wolf, a professor of history at ...

ROME (Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, in a major speech to Italy's parliament, attacked wartime Pope Pius XII on Wednesday for his "silence" during the Nazis' ...

A newly uncovered letter provides the strongest evidence yet that Pope Pius XII knew about the Nazi extermination of the Jews as it was happening, the latest in a series of recent discoveries that ...