DOCUMENTS from the stillsealed Second World War section of the Vatican Secret Archives will be part of a major exhibition of Vatican papers hosted by the city of Rome.
The exhibit marking the 400th anniversary of the Vatican archives will be open from February to September 2012 at Rome’s Capitoline Museums.
Bishop Sergio Pagano, prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives, said that with permission from the Vatican Secretariat of State “a very limited number” of documents related to the Second World War would be among the 100 documents and objects from the eighth to the 20th century placed on public display, but would not shed new light on the role of the Venerable Pope Pius XII.