Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pope Pius XII, the wartime pontiff, appears in an undated file photo from the archives of Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano.

VATICAN CITY – Under a gray sky in Saint Peter’s Square, hundreds of pilgrims and tourists waited in line to visit the Vatican. Only meters away, a different queue formed as the Vatican played host to ...

A new Italian film that attempts to defend wartime Pope Pius XII against accusations he turned a blind eye to the Holocaust has been panned by the Vatican as well as Catholic and Jewish media. “Shades ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A new Italian film that attempts to defend wartime Pope Pius XII against accusations he turned a blind eye to the Holocaust has been panned by the Vatican as well as Catholic ...