Benedict XVI says the Church feels ‘a great closeness’ to the Jewish people
Topic: Holocaust
Allied diplomats urged Pius XII to stay silent about Nazi deportations
US and British diplomats feared that the Pope’s criticism of German and Russian war crimes could threaten a fragile alliance
Ten Catholic heroes of the Holocaust
As International Holocaust Remembrance Day approaches, Simon Caldwell tells the remarkable stories of 10 lesser-known heroes
SSPX threatens to expel Williamson over extremist lawyer
Society of St Pius says it will exclude Bishop Williamson unless he drops lawyer with neo-Nazi ties
Vatican newspaper criticises Berlusconi for joke about Jews
L’Osservatore Romano said the offensive joke was a ‘sad’ example of the decline of public discourse in Italy
Please, let’s not be victims of hate crime
The Protect the Pope website seems to present Catholics as a ‘victim group’. But let’s keep our dignity, and not whine about our rights
How to kill the myth of Hitler’s Pope
Harold Bloom said he wanted to bin all the remaining copies of his novel. Perhaps that idea could be taken up elsewhere
‘Why were you Catholics so awful to the Jews during the War?’
Some controversies just won’t lie down and die. Pius XII and the Holocaust is one of them.







Should pro-life campaigners compare abortion to the Holocaust?
A new American film compares abortion to the Final Solution, but is such a comparison tasteless, and does it even help the pro-life cause?