ROME – Prince Harry paid solemn tributes to fallen Allied troops during World War II and made a surprise trip to the Colosseum as his two-day visit to Italy ended Monday. Wearing full military dress, ...

Eighty years on, document confirms Hitler’s role and reveals allied raid might have been avoided had action been taken to enforce neutral zone The mountaintop abbey of Monte Cassino ought to have been ...

The monastery of Monte Cassino after the Allied bombing of Feb. 15, 1944. (Credit: Wikicommons.) ROME – A newly discovered document in the Vatican Archives suggests that a more energetic response from ...

A document found in the Vatican archives relating to the period of Pope Pius XII's pontificate has helped to reconstruct the disastrous bombing carried out by the Allied forces at Montecassino. There ...

new video loaded: Prince Harry commemorates WWII soldiers at Montecassino Britain's Prince Harry takes part in a commemoration ceremony to mark the soldiers killed during the World War II battles of ...

The Italian campaign played second fiddle to the D-Day landings but it was a brutal war. Key to the liberation of the 'soft underbelly' of Hitler's Europe - as Churchill called it - was the Catholic ...