Movie review: "Of Animals and Men", releasing for one night June 22, tells the true story of the Warsaw Zoo and Antonina and Jan Zabinski, a couple who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews amid World War II.
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.
A U.S. government forensic team announced March 4 it has identified the remains of Fr. Emil Kapaun, a priest of the Diocese of Wichita, who was an Army chaplain and died in a Chinese prisoner-of-war camp during the Korean War.
The newly opened Pius XII archives could lead to some rethinking about the role of the future Paul VI in World War II and after, says one historian: "We may be headed for a more nuanced picture of Montini."
Book review: Originally published in Russian in 1985, now in English, Svetlana Alexievich's Last Witnesses listens to adults looking back on their experiences as children during World War II in the Soviet Union.
From Where I Stand: Where other countries have made a distinction between pathological individualism and the common good, we are still burying our dead, closing our schools, straining our hospitals and destroying our economy.
The U.S. bishops' conference has been flatfooted when it comes to addressing the racial injustices in this country. But the U.S. Catholic Church, including the bishops, was once engaged with issues of social justice.
Distinctly Catholic: Our patriotism must be more honest than it was in 1943. Americans must learn to pray for America with our eyes open. Make no mistake, however: America is still worth praying for and fighting for.
