Dolls, clothing, pillows and socks represent St. Maximilian Kolbe as a comic-like character with half an Auschwitz uniform. Retailers say the products honor the saint and evangelize. Critics call it "kiddifying" the Holocaust.
Researchers said it would likely take years to assess the Vatican material made available about Pius XII, who led the church from 1939-58 and has been scrutinized over his actions during the Holocaust.
Book review: Navigating between Germany's reckoning with Nazism and the reactionary grip of Southern myth, Learning From the Germans tells the stories of people facing a historical memory they want to change.
From Where I Stand: We have lost a taste for solid gold leadership and accepted the gold-plated lookalike. We have bought into the emptiness of soul that takes a nation into the clutches of political subservience.
Soul Seeing: So many saints and spiritual mentors elected solitude, or had it imposed by circumstances. What kind of wisdom, I wondered, might they impart to "ordinary" people entering into this unfamiliar world?
Distinctly Catholic: One of the most dangerous attributes of our culture is our penchant for selective memory, and that selectivity has been on full display in recent days.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Ethicists on the Soleimani assassination; bystanderism and the lessons of the Holocaust; taking down "political hobbyists"; rebuilding Notre Dame.
