Jewish retiree creates stir defending Pope Pius

2010-03-13T11:15:08Z

<div id="subtitle">Jewish retiree creates stir by taking Vatican's side in dispute over Pope Pius' wartime role</div><div><p>In the long and painful debate over whether he should have done more to halt the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators in World War II, Pope Pius XII has an unusual defender...

Vatican putting wartime archives on Internet

2010-02-22T09:17:21Z

<div id="subtitle">Vatican to put some World War II archives on the Internet to calm debate over Pope Pius XII</div><div><p>The Vatican plans to make some of its World War II archives available on the Internet soon to calm down the controversy over Pope Pius XII's actions during the Holocaust.</p><p>The Vatican...

Israeli Vice PM to host Pope at Rome synagogue

2010-02-22T19:13:40Z

<div><p>Israeli Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom was to welcome Pope Benedict XVI to Rome's Great Synagogue on Sunday, the first visit by a pontiff to the site in 24 years.</p><p>"I will welcome (the Pope) today when he comes to the Great Synagogue," Shalom told ...

VATICAN POPE PIUS XII SAINTHOOD

2009-12-19T08:15:58Z

FILE - In this file photo dated Sept. 1945, Pope Pius XII, wearing the ring of St. Peter, raises his right hand in a papal blessing at the Vatican. Pope Benedict XVI moved two of his predecessors closer to possible sainthood Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009, signing decrees on the virtues of the beloved

Vatican Radio: document shows Pius XII helped Jews

2010-03-03T20:46:20Z

<div id="subtitle">Vatican Radio: 1943 document in Rome convent shows Pius XII worked to save Jews from Nazis</div><div><p>Vatican Radio said Wednesday that a 1943 document found in a Rome convent bolsters church contentions that Pope Pius XII tried to save Jews from Nazis in World War II.</p><p>Some ...

Exhibition about Pope Pius XII

2009-03-12T16:39:58Z

epa01608081 The bust of Pope Pius XII underneath a headline reading 'Here you can hear the silence of the Pope' in front of an abstract of his Christmas address from 24 December 1942 at Castle Charlottenburg in Berlin, Germany, 21 January 2009. The bust and the text are part of the exhibition by the Pope Benedict XVI praised Pius XII on Saturday as a great historical figure and implied that excessive attention had been paid to what the wartime pontiff did or did not do to save Jews from the Holocaust.</p><p>On Thursday his ...

Why the Pope does not back the Bush doctrine

2010-03-02T08:44:48Z

<div><p> Virtually everyone knows Stalin's famously derisive question about the political influence of the Pope: 'How many divisions has he got?' Less well known is the riposte allegedly issued by Pope Pius XII, who led the Roman Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958, during the second world war and the most intense period of the Cold...

Vatican rejects quick opening of WWII archives

2010-02-27T18:08:32Z

<div id="subtitle">Vatican rejects quick opening of WWII archives linked to controversial Pope Pius XII</div><div><p>The Vatican on Thursday rejected requests to immediately open its secret archives on wartime Pope Pius XII, who critics say did not speak out enough to save Jews during Hitler's extermination campaign.</p>&...

Israel minister slams plans to declare Pius a saint

2010-02-27T22:07:33Z

<div><p>An Israeli minister slammed controversial plans to make Pope Pius XII a saint, citing claims the wartime pontiff failed to speak out over the Holocaust.</p><p>"The intent to turn Pius XII into a saint is unacceptable," Social Affairs Minister Isaac Herzog told the Israel has renewed an invitation to the pope to visit the Holy Land despite differences between Jews and Catholics on the possible beatification of Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII, Israel's envoy to the Vatican said on Sunday.</p><p>"The invitation to Israel's president says controversial exhibit on Pope Pius XII shouldn't block papal visit</div><div><p>Israeli president Shimon Peres urged the Vatican on Sunday not to let a contentious reference to World War II and Pop...

French Jewish group opposes Pius XII sainthood

2010-02-28T00:32:20Z

<div id="subtitle">French Jewish group says plans to beatify Pius XII would deal blow to interfaith relations</div><div><p>France's main Jewish organization warned Friday that efforts to make wartime Pope Pius XII a saint would deal "a severe blow" to relations between Catholics and Jews.</p><p>The warning from a...

The Pope was wrong

2010-03-04T10:22:07Z

<div><p> PIUS Xll; THE HOUND OF HITLER by Gerald Noel Continuum, £20, pp. 256, ISBN 9781847063557 £16.00 (plus £2.45 p&amp;p) 0870 429 6655</p><p> VATICAN SECRET DIPLOMACY: JOSEPH P. HURLEY AND POPE PIUS Xll by Charles R. Gallagher

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