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Fathers, Sons, and Sacrifices: On the Second Sunday of Lent
On the Readings for February 25, 2018, the Second Sunday of Lent […]
Holocaust
News Briefs
Pope Francis on Holocaust Remembrance Day: ‘These things can happen again’
Vatican City, Jan 27, 2021 / 03:50 am (CNA).- Pope Francis said on Wednesday that commemorating the Holocaust means to be aware that “these things can happen again.”
Speaking at the end of his general audience, the pope noted that Ja… […]
Features
Pius XII, the New Vatican Archives, and the “hypologists”
Church history is a very strange phenomenon. It does not matter whether your academic position classifies you as an historian. If you are a Christian you risk having the label “apologist” put on your work, […]
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Symposium attests to Pius XII’s monumental work as Defensor Civitatis
“Comitato Papa Pacelli – Associazione Pio XII”, an organization for the beatification of Pope Pius XII, led by Roman Rota attorney Emilio Artiglieri, held a symposium on June 4th to commemorate the great work of […]
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Anti-Semitic comments deserve clear, strong condemnation
“Those who call themselves ‘Jews’, who are not really Jews, but are in fact Satan: You should learn to call them by their real name, ‘Satan;’ you are coming face-to-face with Satan, the Arch Deceiver, […]
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Argument over Pope Pius XII’s response to the Holocaust is political, not historical
In his exhaustive history The Papacy in the Age of Totalitarianism, 1914 to 1958 (Oxford University Press, 2014), Cambridge University historian John Pollard expresses doubt whether the argument over Pope Pius XII’s response to the Holocaust […]
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Pope Pius XII: “His tiara turned into a crown of thorns,” says historian
Editor’s note: This interview was first posted on October 26, 2018, and is reposted today in light of the news that the Vatican will open its archives on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII. Pius […]
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An overlooked chapter in the life of Bl. Paul VI
The future pope’s role in saving Jewish lives during WWII remains little known today. […]
Books
Was Hitler a Christian, an atheist, or neither?
A new book takes a look at the controversial—and complicated—issue of the religious views of Adolf Hitler. […]
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The stories of priests living out their vocations on the Calvary created by the Nazis
It is safe to say that any book with the word Dachau in the title is not going to be an easy read and Zeller’s analysis of one of the darkest chapters in human history […]