Tuesday 28 March |

Saint of the Day: Bl. Dedë Maçaj

World War II

CARITÀ FINO AL MARTIRIO

Isabella H. de Carvalho

This unique church in Rome preserves thousands of stories of modern martyrs

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Anna Kurian

Pius XII’s archives on Holocaust are fully available in digital format

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Silvia Lucchetti

104-year-old sister remembered for fooling the Nazis with 4 coffins

New Jersey pastor blesses Four Chaplains monument

John Burger

The moving heroism of a WWII priest, rabbi and 2 Protestant ministers: 80 years ago today

Rodzina Ulmów z Markowej zostanie beatyfikowana

Dk. Michał Lubowicki - Poland

An entire family – also the unborn baby – to be beatified. What does this mean?

Rudolf Höss, the Commandant of Auschwitz

John Burger

The tragic yet hopeful story of the Commandant of Auschwitz

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Kathleen N. Hattrup

Pope notes 80 years since ‘Operation’ to kill Polish Jews: “And history repeats itself”

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Gelsomino Del Guercio

This 97-year-old Italian nun entered the convent at 17, and helped rebuild it after World War II

Anne Frank in School

Daniel Esparza

Anne Frank’s best friend, Hannah Pick-Goslar, dies at age 93

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Ray Cavanaugh

Unbowed when facing evil: This Dutch cardinal resisted the Nazis

Kathleen N. Hattrup

Pope Francis shares memory of when he was 9 years old: Would we cry for peace?

Pope Francis during his weekly general audience in saint peter's square - June 22 2022

Kathleen N. Hattrup

It’s legitimate to rebel against fighting in a “dreadful war,” Pope tells youth

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I.Media for Aleteia

Pope Francis asks that full Pius XII archives be digitalized, published

Victor Butler

Cerith Gardiner

What one of the last Tuskegee airmen wants for his 100th birthday

POPE FRANCIS AUDIENCE

Kathleen N. Hattrup

Stop! War is not the solution, war is a monster: Pope Francis stresses worry of WWIII

Theresa Civantos Barber

Meet the Auschwitz survivor who’s gone viral on TikTok

Zelda Caldwell

Read J.R.R. Tolkien’s response to a Nazi-allied publisher who asked for proof of his “Aryan descent”

STEFANIA LACKA

Sandra Ferrer

Stefania Łącka: The daring woman who baptized babies and survived Auschwitz

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Agnieszka Bugała

Born in Auschwitz and hidden in a footstool: “I suckled fear along with my mother’s milk”

John Gonsalves Lost Letter

Cerith Gardiner

Missing letter from WWII finally delivered 76 years later

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