Pope Pius XII blessing a crowd gathered in the Vatican in 1954.Bettmann A newly-uncovered Vatican 1942 letter suggests that then-Pope Pius XII likely knew about Nazi genocide. The letter describes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The passing of three-quarters of a century has cleared up almost all the mysteries buried in the rubble of World War II. Among those few that remain, one retains enormous intellectual, emotional, and ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — In a story March 4 about Pope Francis opening Vatican archival documents on World War II-era Pope Pius XII to researchers, The Associated Press incorrectly cited the year Rabbi ...

A newly-uncovered Vatican 1942 letter suggests that then-Pope Pius XII likely knew about Nazi genocide. The letter describes crematoriums and the mass murder of Jewish and Polish people. Pope Pius XII ...