St. LOUIS — The perception that Pope Pius XII was a man who aided and abetted Hitler's Holocaust through inaction and indifference might be changing, thanks in part to the accidental discovery of high ...
Seven years ago, tall Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, laid his lean hands upon the round head of a plump U. S. priest, made him the first U. S. Roman Catholic bishop ever ...
Spectacular as any Wall Street “success story” was the career of the amiable mountain-climbing librarian, Achille Ratti, who in three years (1919-22) became first Archbishop, then Cardinal, then Pope.