Thousands of records detailing requests to the Vatican made by Jewish people persecuted by the Nazis will be made available online to the public, the Vatican announced. In a statement released June 23, the Vatican said ...
In a new book, “Vatican Secret Archives: Unknown Pages of Church History,” researchers go to the source to investigate common misconceptions of the Catholic Church throughout the ages — including the history of the Knights ...
The Vatican Museums, Vatican Apostolic Archives and Vatican Library will reopen June 1, almost three months after being closed as part of the lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The closure of the museums ...
Since March 2, all the documents in the Vatican archives relating to the pontificate of Pope Pius XII are open for consultation by scholars who wish to study the history of the Church and the ...
When the Vatican's wartime archives open to researchers March 2, it will be just the start of what should be a long, slow process of studying, analyzing and publishing findings, said the Vatican's archivist and ...
After decades of anticipation, the Vatican archives are ready to welcome, starting March 2, scores of scholars wishing to study documents related to the wartime pontificate of Pope Pius XII. All 85 researchers who have ...
Citing the negative misinterpretations that the word "secret" implies, Pope Francis has changed the name of the Vatican Secret Archives to the Vatican Apostolic Archives.
While opening the Vatican archives on Pius XII may not resolve division, it will bring about answers
It was a flat sense of duty to Our Sunday Visitor’s readers some years ago when I was in Poland working on a series of articles about the recovery of Polish Catholicism after 50 years ...
It is “a symbolic act,” but once open, the Vatican archives on Pope Pius XII, who reigned from 1939 to 1958, “will confirm what we already know: about 967,000 Jews survived the Holocaust due to the ...
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School prayer up first today in #SupremeCourt.
In 6-3 decision, court says the free exercise and free speech clauses protect the coach's right to pray at midfield following high school football games.
