Posts Tagged ‘Pope Pius XII’

Former spy tells of campaign to discredit Pius XII

Tuesday, August 21st, 2012

Further evidence of a Soviet plot to frame Pope Pius XII as “Hitler’s Pope” has been revealed in a new book co-authored by a former Romanian intelligence chief. Ion Mihai Pacepa, who defected to the United States in 1978, previously claimed he was part of a KGB-led campaign of disinformation to discredit the wartime pontiff, Read more

Holocaust museum revises criticism of Pope Pius XII

Friday, July 6th, 2012

The Holocaust museum in Jerusalem has revised the controversial text of a plaque in which Pope Pius XII was portrayed as silent in the face of Nazi persecution of Jews. Officials at the Yad Vashem museum said the change was made on the recommendation of its International Institute for Holocaust Research, not as a result Read more