VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s archives on the pontificate of Venerable Pius XII will become available for study March 2, possibly bringing to light new information about the pope’s actions during World ...

The secret files of Pope Pius XI, who reigned at the start of World War II, will be released from the Vatican archives in mid-September, Rome has announced. The files, which cover Pius XI’s tenure as ...

After decades of pressure from historians and Jewish groups, the Vatican on Monday began allowing scholars access to the archives of Pope Pius XII, the controversial World War II-era pontiff. Roman ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Pius XII was not silent in front of the Shoah nor inactive. He was, instead, very much committed to saving Jewish families, spoke out constantly against the Nazi Regime, and set up ...

Pope Francis' opening last year of the Vatican's archive of material related to his controversial predecessor Pius XII has provided a sense of hope that the Catholic Church can have open discussions ...

What will scholars learn about Pope Pius XII, who had the misfortune of reigning during World War II, in the now-opened Vatican Archives? Will the new materials confirm what has been repeated since ...

Pope Pius XII is pictured at the Vatican in a file photo dated March 15, 1949. (CNS file photo) Pope Francis announced today that the Vatican archives regarding the pontificate of Pope Pius XII will ...

Pope Pius XII, the wartime pontiff, appears in an undated file photo from the archives of Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A ...

Exactly ten years ago, on a cold winter morning in New York City, the Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission, established to investigate Pope Pius XII’s response to the Holocaust, met for the first ...