Just two years before his election as Pope Pius XII, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli gave a stirring and prophetic warning in the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris using words that could just as easily apply ...

Documents emerging from the Vatican's archives demonstrate that Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, defended anti-Nazi clergy and censored priests who expressed admiration for Adolf ...

(See front cover) In Castel Gandolfo last month His Holiness Pope Pius XI, much refreshed by a summer in the cool Alban Hills, summoned to his side for an hour’s conference His Eminence Eugenic ...

St. LOUIS — The perception that Pope Pius XII was a man who aided and abetted Hitler's Holocaust through inaction and indifference might be changing, thanks in part to the accidental discovery of high ...

A chasuble U.S. President Joe Biden gifted to Pope Francis during their Oct. 29, 2021, meeting is pictured at the Vatican. The vestment is believed to have been worn by Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli — the ...

Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has made changes to a controversial exhibit on Pope Pius XII, presenting a more balanced view of his actions toward the Nazis and their Jewish victims. Pave the ...

Spectacular as any Wall Street “success story” was the career of the amiable mountain-climbing librarian, Achille Ratti, who in three years (1919-22) became first Archbishop, then Cardinal, then Pope.

(RNS) — German historians have asked Berlin authorities to rename a street honoring Pius because he allegedly failed to denounce the Holocaust. (RNS) — The debate about the late Pope Pius XII and the ...