About 80% of the Jews in Rome survived the Holocaust due to the Pope’s efforts—more than anywhere else under Nazi occupation.

Thousands were transported to the death camp of Belzec in Nazi-occupied ... The relationship between Pope Pius XII and Nazi leadership, especially Adolf Hitler, has long been uncovered and brought ...

critically examines Pope Pius XII. According to his research, the Catholic Church under Pius XII was instrumental in saving 860,000 Jews from Nazi death camps (p. 214). Could Pius have saved more ...

Now he stood at the place of his death. He wore a bright blue suit ... crucifix attached to a specially blessed rosary that Pope Pius XII had sent him. The priest stepped away.

The Islamic preacher died yesterday at the age of 83 in his US exile after years of poor health. For decades, he was one of ...

Kennedy tied the knot on September 12, 1953, in Newport, Rhode Island, it was the society event of the season. From the ...

Historically, the Church has mostly been unopposed to the death penalty, including into the 20th Century. In 1952, Pope Pius XII said it was not a violation of the universal right to life.

What is the case for and against Pius XII? Furthermore, what was the historical landscape? What capability and resources did the Pope have under ... forced on would be a death march.

The death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI had been ... the last universally accepted time being in the 1950s, when Pope Pius ...

Across the Tiber, Mussolini greeted news of the pope’s death with a grunt of relief ... Eugenio Pacelli would take the name Pius XII, honoring the man at whose bedside he had recently wept. From “The ...

Death overtook him before he could make it public. His successor, Pope Pius XII, took certain elements from it for his first Encyclical, Summi Pontificatus,4 and especially for his 1942 Christmas ...

When a pope dies or resigns, it is the cardinals, gathered in conclave in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, who are ...