Pius XII faced criticism then and in subsequent decades for being perceived as silent or inactive in the face of the Holocaust. It is believed, however, that the Pope chose to help the victimized ...

Wartime Pope Pius XII knew details about the Nazi attempt to exterminate Jews in the Holocaust as early as 1942, according to a letter found in the Vatican archives that conflicts with the Holy ...

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.

ROME — Newly discovered correspondence suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each ...

ROME (AP) — Newly discovered correspondence suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed ...

VATICAN CITY — The recently opened archives of Pope Pius XII have shed new light on claims the World War II-era pope didn’t speak out about the Holocaust.

Pius XII’s pontificate stretched from 1939 to 1958. In an article published in The Atlantic on Thursday, Dr. Kertzer revealed previously unpublished documents, ...

Newly unearthed wartime correspondence from Pope Pius XII indicates he may have known about the Holocaust earlier than previously believed. Italian newspaper, Corriere della Sera, on Sunday ...

By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.RometPope Benedict XVI today issued a ringing defense of his controversial predecessor, Pope Pius XII, the wartime pope whose alleged silence during the Holocaust has long been ...

In The Wall Street Journal's Houses of Worship column, John Farrell writes about the 60th anniversary of Pope Pius XII's 1950 encyclical on Christianity and the theory of evolution and asks ...

ROME—A letter in the Vatican’s archives suggests that Pope Pius XII knew about the Nazi death camps as early as 1942—the latest discovery on the controversial question of whether the wartime ...

Undated file photo of Pope Pius XII. Newly discovered correspondence suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and ...