Topic: Pope Pius Xii

Would You Pay $8,000 for a TV?

One Christmas Eve in the mid-13th century, a devout woman named Chiara Offreduccio found herself too ill to attend the Mass in her town of Assisi...
It must be a combination of the decline of the summer (which has been splendid and convivial and mostly temperate in New York City); another...
CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY Denver, Colo. — An expert on Pope Pius XII says new discoveries show that the Jewish community strongly supported the pontiff...
AFP. Pope Pius XII. . ROME - An Israeli official who caused a storm in the Jewish world by praising Pope Pius XII for saving Jews during the Second...

Top Unsolved Mysteries

Top Unsolved Mysteries -. . The world is a mysterious place. Yet, there are some mysteries that have plagued mankind for longer than others...
For 40 years now the Vatican consistently has demonstrated initiative in the field of Catholic-Jewish relations. Every Pope since John XXIII has...

Pope's remarks on Jews raise eyebrows in US

The American Jewish Committee on Sunday criticized Pope Benedict XVI for saying his World War II-era successor, Pope Pius XII, "did all he could to save people," in the current pontiff's new book."There is certainly enough evidence to refute those ...

Additional Reading

The literature on Pius XII is perhaps the most extensive for any pope, and it continues to grow. Eugenio Pacelli, Pope of Peace (1954); and Nazareno Padellaro, Portrait of Pius XII (1956; originally published in Italian, 1949)-were countered by the critical ...

Biography: Pope Pius XII

Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli must have been relieved to be known Pope Pius. The Vatican Council of 1870 declared that the Pope was "dogmatically infallible in matters of faith and morals" and "the unchallenged primate of the faithful. Pacelli entered the ...

How to shake off hiccups

The only people in the world who treat hiccups with astonishing equanimity are babies. Poor Pope Pius XII, back in the mid-1950s, used to suffer bouts of hiccups that lasted for weeks! Stress and anxiety can also be a cause that disrupts ...