Tag: World War II

ROME -- Catholic and Jewish institutions announced Sept. 7 the discovery of a previously unpublished list of several thousand people, mostly Jews, who were...

By Kenneth Craycraft "Night" by Elie Wiesel Hill and Wang Publishing 120 pages, $6.50 In the early spring of 1945, as the end of World War II in...

By Kimberley Heatherington The recently released cinema biopic "Oppenheimer" dramatizes the progressive development, assembly, testing and detonation of the world's first atomic bomb which then...

Two U.S. archbishops are leading a "Pilgrimage of Peace" to Japan, hoping to promote global nuclear disarmament. Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New...

WARSAW, Poland (CNS) -- The Polish bishops' conference has cautiously endorsed new government demands for $1.29 trillion in reparations from Germany for damage during...

VATICAN CITY-- Beatifying 10 Polish nuns killed by Russian soldiers at the end of World War II, it is difficult not to think of...

CLAYMONT — Veterans Day, which was celebrated on Nov. 11, was a special occasion at Archmere Academy, where a former student was honored for...

CLEVELAND -- The path to true peace requires the world to abolish nuclear weapons, an American bishop and a Japanese archbishop said as the...

When Germany surrendered to Allied Forces May 7, 1945, Catholics saw a nation and their church shattered. Adolf Hitler’s destructive reign had turned many Germans...

The Nazis showed the world the worst side of human nature during World War II, but there were also people at that time who...