‘I Am a Practicing Catholic and I Am a Proud Jew’
Newly opened Vatican files detail the desperate circumstances of Italian Jewish families under Fascism—including the family of the prominent American jurist Guido Calabresi.
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Photo-illustration by Blake Cale for The Atlantic.* The Pope’s Secret Back Channel to Hitler
Newly revealed Vatican documents uncover a long-held secret: As war broke out, Pius XII used a Nazi prince to negotiate with Adolf Hitler.
Illustration by Cristiana Couceiro. Sources: Ullstein / Getty; Süddeutsche Zeitung / Alamy; Realy Easy Star / Fotografia Felici / Alamy The Pope, the Jews, and the Secrets in the Archives
Documents reveal the private discussions behind both Pope Pius XII’s silence about the Nazi deportation of Rome’s Jews in 1943 and the Vatican’s postwar support for the kidnapping of two Jewish boys whose parents had perished in the Holocaust.
Getty / Paul Spella / The Atlantic What the Vatican’s Secret Archives Are About to Reveal
Documents from the papacy of Pius XII may settle some long-debated questions.
Vatican Media / Reuters The Secrets That Might Be Hiding in the Vatican’s Archives
After decades of controversy, Pope Francis has announced that he will open the records of Pius XII’s papacy to researchers—along with other restricted Church holdings.
Luigi Felici / AP The Doctored 'Memoir' of a Jewish Boy Kidnapped by the Vatican
Edgardo Mortara’s autobiography is roiling Catholic-Jewish relations—based on the false assumption that the text is accurate.
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