World War II Archives

Marking start of WWII, Polish, German bishops urge new peace efforts

Catholic News Service, Church in Europe
Sep 4, 2019

Catholic bishops from Poland and Germany have warned that peace and unity are still needed in Europe, 80 years after the start of World War II.

Mass honors Polish wartime group that allegedly collaborated with Nazis

Associated Press, Church in Europe
Aug 14, 2019

Polish officials joined war veterans on Sunday to pay tribute to a World War II-era underground force that allegedly collaborated with Nazi German forces toward the end of the war in their battle against the Communists, who were imposing control on the nation.

Catholic peace advocates commemorate Hiroshima, Nagasaki anniversaries

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Aug 14, 2019

About 40 peace advocates representing about a dozen religious communities held a special Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration Prayer Service of Repentance midday Aug. 9 outside the White House in Washington.

In recalling soldiers’ D-Day sacrifice, archbishop prays for world peace

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 6, 2019

In remembering the estimated 4,400 Allied troops who died storming the beaches of Normandy, France, 75 years ago on D-Day, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services said that “Jesus Christ reminds us there is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.”

Pope apologizes to gypsies for ‘discrimination and segregation’

Pope in Romania
Jun 2, 2019

“History tells us that Christians too, including Catholics, are not strangers to such evil. I would like to ask your forgiveness for this,” Pope Francis said while telling Romania’s gypsies that he’s sorry for their mistreatment.

U.S. cardinal welcomes opening of Vatican documents on Pope Pius XII

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Mar 13, 2019

New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan March 12 praised Pope Francis’s recent announcement regarding the opening of the Vatican Secret Archives from the wartime pontificate of Pope Pius XII.