Keeper Wants You to Know Vatican’s Secrets — VOA Learning English
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The Roman Catholic Church has been trying for years to inform the public that its “secret” collection of documents is not secret.
The Vatican has opened documents of World War II-period Pope Pius XII to researchers. It even changed the official name of the archive to remove the word “Secret.”
Recently the chief of what is now called the Vatican Apostolic Archive, Archbishop Sergio Pagano, spoke to the Associated Press. Pagano told some of the secrets he had uncovered in the 45 years of working in the archive. The Vatican’s archive is one of the world’s most important stores of documents.
In a new book-length interview called “Secretum,” Pagano explained some of the largely unknown details of…
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