The Matt Walsh Show - Introducing The Pope and the Führer: The Secret Vatican Files of World War II with Michael Knowles

Aug. 17, 2025 - The Matt Walsh Show

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Introducing The Pope and the Führer: The Secret Vatican Files of World War II with Michael Knowles

Pope Pius XII, the man who led the Church through WWII, has been maligned by history as the Pope that could have stood against Hitler, but remained silent. Recent archival revelations, however, tell a different story. What is the truth? How did he respond to the Nazi threat? And who told his story? Streaming Now Exclusively on DailyWire+. - - - Privacy Policy: ⁠https://www.dailywire.com/privacy⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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	These are questions that take cultures thousands of years to answer.
	During Answer the Call, I take questions from people just like you about their problems, opportunities, challenges, or when they simply need advice.
	How do I balance all this grief, responsibility?
	How do you repair this kind of damage?
	My daughter, Mikaela, guides the conversations as we hopefully help people navigate their lives.
	Everyone has their own destiny.
	Everyone.
	You.
	you Thank you.
	For eighty years, the narrative about Pope Pius XII during World War II has been simple and also wrong.
	They called him Hitler's Pope, accused him of silence, complicity, cowardice.
	It's been repeated so many times, most people stopped asking whether any of it was actually true.
	Now for the first time, we have the documents, the real ones, from the Vatican's once secret wartime archive.
	They tell a very different story.
	In a new four-part series, The Pope and the Secret Vatican Files of World War II, Michael Knowles investigates what the church actually did during World War II.
	What did the Pope know?
	Why didn't he speak publicly?
	And why has the story been twisted for so long?
	This series is the most in-depth look at yet one of the most misunderstood figures of the 20th century, with access to files that were hidden for nearly eighty years.
	The truth matters, and that's why we made this series.

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These are questions that take cultures thousands of years to answer.

During Answer the Call, I take questions from people just like you about their problems, opportunities, challenges, or when they simply need advice.

How do I balance all this grief, responsibility?

How do you repair this kind of damage?

My daughter, Mikaela, guides the conversations as we hopefully help people navigate their lives.

Everyone has their own destiny.

Everyone.

You.

you Thank you.

For eighty years, the narrative about Pope Pius XII during World War II has been simple and also wrong.

They called him Hitler's Pope, accused him of silence, complicity, cowardice.

It's been repeated so many times, most people stopped asking whether any of it was actually true.

Now for the first time, we have the documents, the real ones, from the Vatican's once secret wartime archive.

They tell a very different story.

In a new four-part series, The Pope and the Secret Vatican Files of World War II, Michael Knowles investigates what the church actually did during World War II.

What did the Pope know?

Why didn't he speak publicly?

And why has the story been twisted for so long?

This series is the most in-depth look at yet one of the most misunderstood figures of the 20th century, with access to files that were hidden for nearly eighty years.

The truth matters, and that's why we made this series.