Correspondence between Pope Pius XII, who served as Pope during World War II, and a German Jesuit, has shed light on Pius s awareness of the Nazi atrocities committed during the Holocaust.
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna has been elected president of the Italian bishops’ conference, now under pressure to set up an independent commission on clergy sex abuse
In 1610, a doctor and founding father of the Italian city of Livorno organized the mass rape of enslaved Jewish women from Morocco in a plot to extort money from local Jews
In 1610, a doctor and founding father of the Italian city of Livorno organized the mass rape of enslaved Jewish women from Morocco in a plot to extort money from local Jews