Historian: Diary in Vatican secret archive documents Pius XI’s opposition to Hitler, Mussolini
ROME A 1938 diary written near the end of Pius XI’s papacy supplies fresh confirmation that the pope’s opposition to Hitler and Benito Mussolini was hardening as the outbreak of World War II grew closer, a French historian said Tuesday after a first look at documents in the Vatican’s just-opened secret archives. for more click here
