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Holocaust

Promotional art for Ken Burns' film "The U.S. and the Holocaust." (PBS)

An American reckoning with the Holocaust

Robert Brennan|Oct 6, 2022|4 Min Read

Pope Pius XII, who led the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958, is pictured in this undated photo at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

The pope and the Jews

Russell Shaw|Jul 18, 2022|3 Min Read

A young man reacts Oct. 29 at a makeshift memorial outside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. (CNS photo/Cathal McNaughton, Reuters)

‘Maus’ and the necessity of remembering

Greg Erlandson|Feb 15, 2022|4 Min Read

Heidi Crowter, who has Down syndrome, speaks outside the High Court ahead of a case to challenge the Down syndrome abortion laws in London July 6, 2021. (CNS photo/Hannah McKay, Reuters)

Marked as “other” with honor

Robert Brennan|Oct 21, 2021|4 Min Read

Roll call at Buchenwald concentration camp, circa 1938-1941. Two prisoners in the foreground are supporting a comrade, as fainting was frequently an excuse for the guards to "liquidate" useless inmates. (Everett Collection/Shutterstock)

The arrival of the new executioners

Heather King|Apr 1, 2021|4 Min Read

“Portrait of Max Jacob,” 1934, by Carl Van Vechten. (Library of Congress)

A saint for sinners? The messy conversion story of Max Jacob

Msgr. Richard Antall|Mar 25, 2021|5 Min Read

Pope Francis leads his general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Jan. 27, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Pope Francis on Holocaust Remembrance Day: 'These things can happen again'

Catholic News Agency|Jan 27, 2021|5 Min Read

Cardinal Stepinac. (Public domain via CNA)

Faith

How one Croatian cardinal saved thousands of Jewish lives

Mary Farrow|Dec 21, 2020|18 Min Read

Pope Pius XII in an undated file photo inside Vatican City. (Vatican Media/Catholic News Service)

New front in ‘Pius Wars’ shows evidence no longer matters on wartime pope

John L. Allen Jr.|May 8, 2020|4 Min Read

Men, women and children are seen behind barbed wire after the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945 in Oswiecim, Poland. Historians estimate that the Nazis sent at least 1.3 million people to Auschwitz between 1940-45, and it is believed that some 1.1 million of those perished there. Auschwitz was liberated by the Russian Army Jan. 27, 1945. (CNS photo/Yad Vashem Archives via Reuters)

World

Remembering Holocaust is 'a duty,' pope says

Junno Arocho Esteves|Jan 27, 2020|3 Min Read

Pope Pius XI is seen in a publicity still from the documentary "Holy Silence." The film examines whether Jewish lives would have been saved had Pope Pius XI or his successor, Pope Pius XII, issued a statement urging the protection of Jews in Axis-held Europe. (CNS photo/PerlePress Productions)

Film examines whether papal message could have saved Europe's Jews

Mark Pattison|Dec 9, 2019|4 Min Read

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