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 ...
This is the sixth in a series looking at the Church’s 12 most recent popes and the marks they’ve made on the Church. The series appeared monthly throughout 2018. On Aug. 23, 1939, Nazi Germany ...