(JTA) — The Vatican secret archive relating to controversial Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII will be opened next year. Pope Francis made the announcement at an audience with managers and staff of ...

It was an unholy alliance. In the 1920s and ’30s, Pope Pius XI and Benito Mussolini relied on and used each other in their quest to preserve and protect their respective institutions, the Catholic ...

Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article ... Jan. 8. -- The mandate of Pope Pius X. dismissing women from choirs in all Roman Catholic churches has caused many thousands ...

In 1854, Pope Pius IX's solemn declaration, Ineffabilis Deus (link al documento que está en Marian documents), clarified with finality the long-held belief of the Church that Mary was conceived ...

The city’s weary old ruler, Pope Pius IX, ordered his Papal zouaves not to fire upon the invaders. He shut himself up in the Vatican, there to remain to the end of his days. The House of Savoy ...

Credited with having uttered the foregoing statements, and many more besides, during the five weeks he had lain abed, Pope Pius XI ended last week feeling fairly comfortable. Day after day the ...

Issue with the Christmas message of Pope Pius XII was taken here during the week-end by Rabbi Louis I. Newman, a leading Reform rabbi, in a sermon to his congregation. The Pontiff’s message ...