Then, she stumbled across a mystery — a box, forgotten in the basement for 20 years ... grandmothers and a meeting with Pope Pius XI — all from the 1930s. Cox owned a shop in Arlington ...

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 ...

By the end of 1922, the figure of Pope Pius XI did not simply represent the highest level of the Roman Catholic Church, he was also the ultimate court of spiritual appeal to both sides.