The film, produced by Vatican Media, the Fabric of St. Peter, and AF Films, will be released in 2026 for the 400th ...

Sam Sorich, a Catholic filmmaker producing a documentary on Catholicism and UFOs, is seen filming a behind-the-scenes segment of an episode of Jesse Michels’ podcast on location in San Oreste, Italy, ...

He grew up hating Pope Pius XII, but now Gary Krupp, the Jewish founder of Pave the Way Foundation, is possibly the best-known defender of the wartime pontiff. He recently met with the Register in ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY — Declaring that the church “isn’t afraid of history,” Pope Francis said Monday he has decided to open up the Vatican archives on World War II-era Pope Pius XII, who has been criticized ...

The newly discovered letter, written by a German Jesuit to Pope Pius XII’s personal secretary, suggests that the pope knew of Hitler’s atrocities but chose to remain silent. By Elisabetta Povoledo The ...

A series of recently opened Vatican archives are shedding new light on the relationship between Pope Pius XII and Hitler as he led Nazi Germany during World War II. A new book takes a deeper look at ...

Other books critical of Pius XII followed, such as “Hitler’s Pope,” by John Cornwell in 1999, and “Under His Very Windows” by Susan Zuccotti in 2000. In January this year, the Miami Jewish Film ...

The drama is called Der Stellvertreter, a title that has been translated as The Representative or The Deputy, hut is perhaps best rendered as The Vicar—in echo of the title Vicar of Christ on Earth, ...

FILE - Undated file photo of Pope Pius XII. Newly discovered correspondence suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and ...

ROME — After more than three decades of pressure from historians and Jewish organizations, Pope Francis announced on Monday that he would open the sealed archives from the World War II-era pontificate ...