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President Truman's envoy to the Vatican, Myron C. Taylor, left, has an audience with Pope Pius XII at Castelgandolfo near Rome, on Aug. 26, 1947. The Vatican has long defended its World War II-era pope, Pius XII, against criticism that he remained silent as the Holocaust unfolded, insisting that he worked quietly behind the scenes to save lives. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Kertzer’s “The Pope at War,” which comes out Tuesday, June 7, 2022 in the United States, citing recently opened Vatican archives, suggests the lives the Vatican worked hardest to save were Jews who had converted to Catholicism or were children of Catholic-Jewish “mixed marriages.” (AP Photo/Luigi Felici, File)

Vatican’s Pius XII archives begin to shed light on WWII pope

A view of the St. Francis Catholic Church in Owo Nigeria, Sunday, June 5, 2022. Lawmakers in southwestern Nigeria say more than 50 people are feared dead after gunmen opened fire and detonated explosives at a church. Ogunmolasuyi Oluwole with the Ondo State House of Assembly said the gunmen targeted the St Francis Catholic Church in Ondo state on Sunday morning just as the worshippers gathered for the weekly Mass. (AP Photo/Rahaman A Yusuf)

Over 50 feared dead in Nigeria church attack, officials say

This image provided by the New York City Police Department shows a missing tabernacle and damaged angel statue in St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood in New York, which was stolen between Thursday, May 26, 2022 and Saturday, May 28, 2022. The tabernacle, a box containing Holy Communion items, was made of 18-carat gold and decorated with jewels, police and the diocese said. It’s valued at $2 million. (NYPD via AP)

$2M relic stolen, angel statue beheaded at Brooklyn church

Pope Francis delivers his blessing at the end of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis demands humility in new zinger-filled Christmas speech

A rainbow shines over St.Peter's Square at the Vatican, on Jan. 31, 2021. A Vatican official has apologized to a leading Catholic LGBTQ advocacy group for having yanked a reference to it on the Vatican website, saying he realized the move caused pain and that the Catholic Church indeed wants to include gays and hear from them. The Vatican’s General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops, which is organizing a two-year consultation of rank-and-file Catholics ahead of a 2023 meeting of bishops at the Vatican, restored the reference to New Ways Ministries on the website over the weekend. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

Vatican official apologizes for taking down LGBTQ resource

Pope Francis attends a meeting of listening and prayer inside the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, central Italy, Friday, Nov. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Pope Francis thanks journalists for exposing Catholic Church sex-abuse scandal

US President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden and Pope Francis walk as they meet at the Vatican, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. President Joe Biden is set to meet with Pope Francis on Friday at the Vatican, where the worlds two most notable Roman Catholics plan to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and poverty. The president takes pride in his Catholic faith, using it as moral guidepost to shape many of his social and economic policies. (Vatican Media via AP)

Biden says the pope told him to keep receiving communion

In this April 29, 2016, photo, Pope Francis shakes hands with then-Vice President Joe Biden as he takes part at a congress on the progress of regenerative medicine and its cultural impact, being held in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/L'Osservatore Romano/Pool photo via AP) **FILE**

Biden’s meeting with Pope Francis puts a spotlight on rifts in Catholic Church

Author and actor Laurent Martinez gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated-Press at "Theo Theater" in Paris, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. French author and actor Laurent Martinez has been sexually abused by a priest. Over forty years later, he has chosen to make his story a theater play to show the devastating consequences and how speaking out can help overcoming the trauma. The play called "Pardon?" is deeply inspired from the Martinez's own life, describing how he felt devoured from the inside and the difficulties of daily life after being abused. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

French actor breaks silence on child sex abuse within church

Pope Francis listens to speeches during his weekly general audience in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope Francis expresses ‘shame’ at scale of clergy abuse in France

The Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Boulder County, Colorado, was heavily vandalized in the early morning hours of Sept. 29. Photo courtesy Mark Evevard.

Another Colorado Catholic church hit with pro-abortion graffiti, vandalism

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., joined from left by Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., and Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., holds a news conference just before a House vote on legislation aimed at guaranteeing a woman’s right to an abortion, an effort by House Democrats to circumvent a new Texas law that has placed that access under threat, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Nancy Pelosi aligns herself with the Satanic Temple

Louisville police in Colorado said St. Louis Catholic Church was defaced on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021. (Image: Courtesy of the Louisville Police Department via Facebook)

Vandals deface Boulder County Catholic church with pro-abortion graffiti

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden speak with a priest as they depart after Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church, Saturday, June 19, 2021, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Biden’s parish in D.C. won’t restrict Communion

Blessed Sacrament and Holy Communion Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Should Biden receive Holy Communion?

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WARSAW, Poland - A leader of Poland’s Catholic Church says his recent visit to sites of mass murder in Ukraine led him to conclude that humans have drawn no lessons from previous deadly wars but have only improved their killing methods.

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The Catholic Church frowned on divorce (and continues to even today.) Because the Holy See wouldn’t accommodate his demand, Henry VIII banished the Catholic Church, created the Church of England, declared himself its leader and then granted his own divorce. 

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