1967) critically examines Pope Pius XII. According to his research, the Catholic Church under Pius XII was instrumental in saving 860,000 Jews from Nazi death camps (p. 214). Could Pius have saved ...

Head of the Roman Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...

On October 9, 1958, after an extended decline, Pope Pius XII breathed his last at Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence ...

Blackedged posters proclaiming the death of Pope Pius XII covered the walls of the city, and everywhere, among the poor and the prosperous, men were wearing black armbands and women black veils.

Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle Peter—but is that true? After ...

As he stood over the body of Pope Pius XII, Eugene Cardinal Tisserant softly ... the office that would become most important after his death, that of Camerlengo (chamberlain), the 13 cardinals ...

As the sum of the first five pentagonal numbers, 75 is a pyramidal number, a mathematical representation of Abram’s name: ...

In the United States, they built the first Our Lady of Perpetual Help church in the Roxbury section of Boston, and it was eventually raised to the honor of a “Papal Basilica” by Pope Pius XII.