Diary shows pope's opposition to Hitler
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A 1938 diary written near the end of Pope Pius XI's papacy confirms his opposition to fascism was hardening as the outbreak of World War II grew closer, a historian said Tuesday after examining documents in the Vatican's just-opened secret archives.
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Pope Benedict held an open  air mass on Tuesday in the town where he had hoped to spend his  retirement and rejected the use of God's name to justify hatred  and fanaticism.
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Pope Benedict is due to visit Austria, where he will join Jewish leaders to pay tribute to victims of the Nazis.
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The Pope was due on Sunday to make   his first public appearance since Muslim fury erupted over   remarks he made about Islam, with pressure growing for a   personal apology.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended   Pope Benedict on Saturday against allegations that he had   attacked Islam as worldwide Muslim fury continued over a speech   he made earlier this week.
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The Pope has revised a section of the old Latin liturgy that castigated the Jews. But it still calls for their conversion. Jewish leaders are up in arms
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A controversial article by a prominent Italian doctor asserts as much, eliciting a strenuous rebuttal from the Vatican, which opposes euthanasia.
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The pope's top aide said Wednesday that Benedict XVI's reason for canceling a visit to a Rome university was that he did not want to create a pretext for further "unpleasant" protests by professors and students opposed to the religious leader speaking at a secular campus.
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A TIME correspondent recalls his meeting with the late U.N. Secretary General on the defensive about his Wehrmacht past
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History condemns Italy's World War II dictator Benito Mussolini for his crimes, but a new book by his son depicts Il Duce as a caring father, who loved music and cried at the wedding of his beloved first-born daughter.
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Pope Benedict was opposed to Bob  Dylan appearing at a youth event with the late Pope John Paul  in 1997 because he considered the pop star the wrong kind of  "prophet," Benedict writes in a new book issued on Thursday.
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The head of the U.N. panel on climate change compared him to Hitler. Another leading scientist called him a parasite. A third described his latest book as a "stealth attack" on mankind.
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Vandalized Jewish graves in western Europe. Growing support for extreme-right parties in Germany. Comments by France's far-right leader playing down the evils of the Nazi occupation.
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ROME -- Pope Pius XII ordered the church in France not to return Jewish children to their parents if they had been baptized into the Catholic faith to save them from the Nazis, according to a 1946 letter obtained by a historian.
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A Muslim Labour peer calls for an apology after Pope Benedict XVI's comments on holy war.
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VATICAN CITY -- Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler gave one of his generals a direct order to kidnap Pope Pius XII during World War II, but the officer did not obey, Italy's leading Roman Catholic newspaper reported yesterday.
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More than 700 people in Poland, including a former prime minister and foreign minister, signed an open letter condemning statements about Jews by a right-wing Roman Catholic priest who runs a controversial radio station.