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February 14, 2024
The key theme this Ash Wednesday is that ashes symbolise death and penitence. Recent events in Israel have reminded us of the continual plight of the Jewish people. The ashes of the Holocaust emphasise wrongful death on a scale that is all but unimaginable and incomprehensible. Just as incomprehensible is whether within those terrible ashes
September 18, 2023
ROME – Two new discoveries regarding Pope Pius XII are rekindling debate over the role of the wartime pontiff, including a letter suggesting he had earlier knowledge of the Holocaust than previously believed and a Nazi dagger presented to the pontiff by a repentant SS officer. Both items were published in a Sunday insert of Corriere
February 01, 2023
80 years after their deaths, the members of the White Rose Resistance have much to teach the world, explains Alexandra Lloyd
November 22, 2021
A Catholic priest guillotined by the Nazis in 1942 was declared blessed on Saturday.  Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, presided at the beatification of Fr. Jan Macha at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Katowice, southwest Poland, on Nov. 20. Preaching at the live-streamed Mass, the Italian cardinal said: “The witness
April 09, 2018
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March 02, 2018
The memoirs of Goebbels' secretary show a woman who just got on with the job without questioning
September 29, 2017
'It is very exhausting as well as dangerous to live under the strain of a deliberate compromise with evil'
July 01, 2016
The Pope Emeritus reportedly admitted to the diary in a book-length interview to be published in September
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