The Vatican Apostolic Archives contain centuries of documents collected by the Catholic Church. These records include letters, historical texts, and official documents from across Europe and beyond.
Historians will begin combing the archives of the world's most contentious pope on Monday, hoping to glean why Pius XII stayed silent during the Nazi extermination of Jews in the Holocaust. More than ...
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has been trying for years to debunk the idea that its vaunted secret archives are all that secret: It has opened up the files of controversial World War II-era Pope Pius XII ...