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The keeper of the Vatican’s secrets is finally spilling the beans
The Vatican has been trying for years to debunk the idea that its vaunted archives are full of secrets: it has opened up the files of controversial Second World War-era Pope Pius XII to scholars ...
The World’s Most Mysterious No-Go Zones
Find out why places like Vatican Secret Archives, Vatican City to North Sentinel Island, India are the most mysterious and ...
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Vatican archives reveal pope Pius XII's failed bid to punish priest
Documents from the Vatican Archives, published on Sunday by the newspaper "Corriere della Sera," show that Pope Pius XII wanted to punish the priest Marcial Maciel Degollado, accused of pedophilia ...
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Vatican Archives Papal Letter Registers
The Vatican Archives Papal Letters Registers on CD-ROM consist of digital image reproductions of the manuscript registers of papal letters housed in the Archivio Segreto Vaticano. The registers ...
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The Vatican will release WWII-era ‘Jewish files’ online, including unanswered pleas to the pope
The Vatican itself has long insisted that Pius ... The Church opened its secret files on Pius’s archives to historians in 2020, but by publishing its Jewish-related files online, it opens ...
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Vatican will open secret archive on Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII
(JTA) — The Vatican secret archive relating to controversial Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII will be opened next year. Pope Francis made the announcement at an audience with managers and staff of ...
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The Vatican, Il Duce and the Jews
Curiously, it was Italy’s Jews who first led me to work in the Vatican archives and triggered my interest in papal politics. A colleague of mine, Steve Hughes, an American historian of Italy, asked me ...
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The Vatican knew about the Holocaust, WW2-era letter reveals
The transcript of the letter will be available to see in a book about Pius to be published on September 18 by Giovanni Coco, a researcher and archivist in the Vatican’s Apostolic Archives.
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Visiting the Vatican Film Library
The Vatican Film Library is open to all members of the Saint ... must be directed to the libraries or archives that hold the original materials. See: ...
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INTERNATIONAL: The Vatican and the Peace
Pius XII last week used his annual Christmas message to expound the Vatican’s views on world politics. This was the first of six wartime Christmases at which Fascist guards have not stood ...
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In Christmas message, Pope Francis criticizes gossip among Vatican staff
Pope Francis told Vatican bureaucrats on Saturday to stop speaking ill of one another, as he once again used his annual Christmas greetings to admonish the backstabbing and gossiping among his ...