Topic: Pope Pius XII
AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-17 10:10:22
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. "I will welcome (the Pope) today when he comes to the Great Synagogue," Shalom told Israeli public radio by telephone from Rome. "Benedict XVI was in Israel less than ...
AP News | 2009-12-19 15:06:26
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 ...
AP News | 2009-03-04 18:33:31
Vatican Radio: 1943 document in Rome convent shows Pius XII worked to save Jews from Nazis
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. Some historians and Jewish groups contend that the wartime pontiff didn't speak out ...
ZUMA Press Inc | 2009-01-21 17:14:19
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 ...
