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Saint of the Day: St. Helen

World War II

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

FILE PHOTO OF POPE PIUS XII

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

Edith Stein

Philip Kosloski

“Year of Edith Stein” celebrates 100 years since her baptism

Maria von Trapp

Mark Haas

When Maria von Trapp was faced with abortion and Hitler

CROSS AND BIBLE

Larry Peterson

He saved so many Jews from the Nazis he was known as the “Angel of Rome”

NAKAJIMA

John Burger

The Japanese war pilot who came to Pearl Harbor to apologize

dreidels

J-P Mauro

New Yorker amasses collection of 4,000 dreidels from pre-WWII

Cross of Lorraine

Lucien de Guise

This cross was chosen by Charles de Gaulle as a response to Hitler’s swastika

Agnès Pinard Legry

The Jewish man saved from the Nazis by a cardinal, a monsignor, and a diplomat

Francisco Veneto

Holocaust survivor sends letter of gratitude to Pope Francis

Pope Francis stands by graves with flowers at the French military cemetery

Kathleen N. Hattrup

The graves cry out for peace: Pope visits military cemetery for All Souls Day

Camille de Longvilliers

A life full of contagious love: Holocaust survivor Magda Hollander-Lafon

Placido Cortese

Philip Kosloski

This Italian priest was killed for helping Jews in WWII

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