Vatican WWII - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 27 Jun 2022 09:00:52 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Vatican WWII - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Pope orders online release of WWII-era Pius XII Jewish files https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/06/27/pope-orders-online-release-of-wwii-era-pius-xii-jewish-files/ Mon, 27 Jun 2022 07:53:36 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=148429 Pope Francis has ordered the online publication of 170 volumes of its Jewish files from the recently opened Pope Pius XII archives, the Vatican announced on Thursday, amid renewed debate about the legacy of its World War II-era pope. The documentation contains 2,700 files of requests for Vatican help from Jewish groups and families, many Read more

Pope orders online release of WWII-era Pius XII Jewish files... Read more]]> Pope Francis has ordered the online publication of 170 volumes of its Jewish files from the recently opened Pope Pius XII archives, the Vatican announced on Thursday, amid renewed debate about the legacy of its World War II-era pope.

The documentation contains 2,700 files of requests for Vatican help from Jewish groups and families, many of them baptised Catholics, so not actually practising Jews anymore.

The files were held in the Secretariat of State's archives and contain requests for papal intervention to avoid Nazi deportation, to obtain liberation from concentration camps and help finding family members. Read more

Pope orders online release of WWII-era Pius XII Jewish files]]> 148429 Vatican wartime archives online https://cathnews.co.nz/2017/09/21/vatican-wartime-archives-online/ Thu, 21 Sep 2017 07:51:15 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=99808 Some of the Vatican wartime archives will soon be available free of charge online. However, the documents won't include material directly relating to Pius XII. Pope Pius XII's attitude and behaviour towards the Holocaust has often been criticised. Read more

Vatican wartime archives online... Read more]]> Some of the Vatican wartime archives will soon be available free of charge online.

However, the documents won't include material directly relating to Pius XII.

Pope Pius XII's attitude and behaviour towards the Holocaust has often been criticised. Read more

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