His assessment of Pius as ‘odiously anti-Semitic’ is based on one source – John Cornwell
Topic: Pope Pius XII
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
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In new book, Pope says abuse crisis left him ‘stunned’
In a wide-ranging and candid interview the Pope describes crisis as ‘a tremendous cloud of filth which darkens everything’
Abbot and Sister take on ‘bear pit’ of atheists in debate over papal visit
London audience backed the motion ‘The papal visit should not be a state visit’
Heaven is a place within God, says Pope
On the feast of the Assumption of Mary, Pope Benedict explains that heaven is not a location in the cosmos
Nuns in Rome pray for Russia for more than half a century
Convent was established by Pope Pius XII
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
Pius XII ‘secured visas for Jews’ after Kristallnacht
Pope may have saved thousands of Jewish lives by secretly securing visas so they could escape the Third Reich, a German historian claims







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