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Pope Pius XII

March 2020

  • Pope Pius XII addresses a crowd in Rome in 1943 after a US bombing raid.

    Unsealing of Vatican archives will finally reveal truth about ‘Hitler’s pope’

    Historians can now pore over secret files from the papacy of Pius XII, who has long faced accusations of being a Nazi sympathiser

March 2019

  • Pope Pius XII at the Vatican in 1955.

    The Guardian view on Pius XII: a pope not a saint

  • Pope Pius XII.

    Vatican to unseal archives on controversial WWII pope

May 2015

  • Law will play a fictional American-born pope in the mini-series.

    Paolo Sorrentino set to direct Jude Law in Young Pope mini-series

    The Oscar-winning director will team up with Law for a HBO show about a fictional American pope

March 2015

  • Pope Pius XII in 1956

    Wartime pope film angers Vatican and Jews

    Film in defence of Pius XII, accused of failing to bring attention to Hitler’s attempted extermination of the Jews, universally panned

April 2014

  • Pope Pius XII (1876-1958)

    Vatican Radio digitises archive of popes' voices

    Clips available online include Pius XII's eve of war address and Benedict XVI's unprecedented 2013 resignation speech

February 2013

  • Portrait of Pope Pius XII

    Vatican hopes secret files exonerate 'Hitler's pope'

    Author uncovers evidence on Pius XII's wartime efforts to save Jewish refugees

December 2010

  • Portrait of Pope Pius XII

    WikiLeaks cables: Vatican vetoed Holocaust memorial over Pius XII row

  • US embassy cables: the documents
    US embassy cables: US-Vatican talks continue over archives of Pius XII

August 2010

  • Cif belief
    Middle ways on evolution

    John Farrell

    John Farrell: Sixty years ago pope Pius XII moved the the Catholic church to a compromise position on human evolution

December 2009

  • Cif belief
    Pius XII: a saint too far?

    Hugh O'Shaughnessy
  • A portrait of Pope Pius XII

    Jewish anger as Pope Benedict moves Pius XII closer to sainthood

March 2009

  • Cif belief
    A new side to the wartime pope?

    Danny Rich

    Danny Rich: Documents revealed by the Vatican archive suggest that Pope Pius XII may have aided the rescue of thousands of Jews

December 2008

  • Cif belief
    The rehabilitation of Pius XII

    Rocco Buttiglione

    Rocco Buttiglione: A longstanding Germanophile, the wartime Pope was nonetheless an anti-Nazi

October 2008

  • A portrait of Pope Pius XII

    Sainthood for Pope Pius XII unacceptable, Israeli minister says

  • Cif belief
    Sins of the fathers

    Tim Luckhurst

May 2007

  • Saints go marching in

    Tim Luckhurst

    Tim Luckhurst: Pius XII knew evil was being perpetrated and made no effort to prevent it. We should despise him, not canonise him.

March 2007

  • News blog
    Holy row over troop colours

    The discovery of a second world war telegram has led Italians to question whether even if Pius XII was not anti-Semitic, he may have been colour prejudiced, writes John Hooper in Rome.

December 2004

  • The ways of true religion

    Letters: It is time to stop the nonsense about Pope Pius XII and his supposed anti-semitism (Vatican hit by new row over war role, December 29).

February 2002

  • Pius the hero

    It comes as no surprise to learn that Hochhuth's witless slander on Pope Pius XII has been made into a film. Indeed, given the anti-Roman Catholic bias of much of the media one can only marvel that this tripe has taken so long to reach the silver screen. There are a few facts to be born in mind, however.
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