Italian American news

September 2011
	Frank Capra, the Italian film director, on the U.S. Postal Service stamps Frank Capra has been announced as one of the three Great Film Directors to appear on the U.S. Postal Service postage stamps in 2012. L’Italo- Americano

 The Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday

Hitler's Pope," Pope Pius XII, may have arranged for 200,000 Jews to leave Germany after Kristallnacht, The Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday.

German historian Dr. Michael Hesemann told the paper that Pius XII, then known as Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, wrote to archbishops around the world, asking them to obtain exit visas for "non-Aryan Catholics" and Jewish converts to Christianity.   Hesemann is doing research in the Vatican archives sponsored by the Pave the Way foundation, a US interfaith group                   

Oldest surviving portraits of Apostles discovered in catacombs of St. Thecla   (WASHINGTON, D.C. – May 20, 2010) Thirty-four college students from across the United States will participate in the Ambassador Peter F. Secchia Voyage of Discovery program, an all-expenses-paid educational and cultural initiative that sends Italian American students to Italy. Sponsored by the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF), the tour will visit Italy’s Campania and Umbria regions from May 29 to June 8, 2010.

Church’s International contours changed under Pope John Paul II  VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The next pope will lead a Catholic Church whose international contours have changed dramatically under the more than 26-year pontificate of Pope John Paul II.

French nun cured of Parkinson's to speak at John Paul II prayer vigil

Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the papal vicar for Rome, speaks during an April 5 Vatican press conference about details of the May 1 beatification of Pope John Paul II. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Whenever politics tries to be redemptive it is promising too much where it wishes to do the work of God it becomes not Divine but demonic.  Pope Benedict XVI

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