Articles on this issue "World War II"
For harboring Jews, the nine members of the Ulma family were executed by firing squad in 1944 in their German-occupied Polish village. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, …
read moreHere is the address given by Lisa Palmieri-Billig, liaison of the American-Jewish Committee to the Holy See, and Rome correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, on the occasion of the presentation …
read moreCardinal William Keeler says the U.S. bishops stand in solidarity with the universal Church in condemning "revisionist history" that seeks to minimize the horror of the Holocaust. The …
read moreHolocaust Memorial Day, observed Jan. 27, was dedicated to the memory of the \"Righteous among the Nations,\" those who saved Jews destined for the Nazi death camps. In order to know the …
read moreA new book details the lives of hundreds of Italians, including Catholic clergy and religious, who helped to save Jews from Nazi persecution. The work, \"The Righteous of Italy: Non-Jews Who …
read moreA cardinal assailed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\'s claim that the Holocaust was a myth, condemning the view as a shocking injustice to the victims of the Nazi genocide. Cardinal …
read moreBenedict XVI recalled the Jewish Holocaust as an \"indelible disgrace in the history of humanity\" and assured that God always hears the cry of the victims. The Pope\'s reference to the …
read moreHere is the address delivered Tuesday by Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Holy See\'s permanent observer to the United Nations, before the U.N. General Assembly on \"Holocaust Remembrance.\" …
read moreWith the strong support of the Holy See, the United Nations decided to declare Jan. 27 as an annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, in memory of the victims of the atrocity. In a resolution, …
read moreHere is a translation of the address Benedict XVI gave today, from the window of his study, when reciting the midday Angelus prayer. * * * Dear Brothers and Sisters, This morning the …
read moreThe 49th pilgrimage of gypsy communities to Lourdes remembered victims, especially their own, who died in the Nazi-run Auschwitz-Birkenau camps. Last Sunday, after a Mass in the Basilica of …
read moreCardinal August von Galen, who dared to defy Hitler, will be beatified Oct. 9, according to the Muenster Diocese Web page. The cardinal, who lived 1878-1946, would become the first German to …
read moreHere is the statement of the Vatican on the anniversary of the end of World War II delivered Monday by Archbishop Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, …
read moreGlobal peace and security is possible only if life is respected, stated the Holy See to the U.N. General Assembly that commemorated the end of World War II. On Monday, Archbishop Celestino …
read moreJohn Paul II's representative to the inauguration of Yad Vashem's new Holocaust museum in Jerusalem says that the building is a "warning" and an "appeal" to the world. Cardinal Jean-Louis …
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