ECCLESIA. - Illustrated monthly review (Città del Vaticano). Promoted by the Information Office established to gather news about prisoners of war and to reconnect them with their families, it appeared (September 1942) as a dutiful testimony to the Pope’s charity. Alongside its photographic and statistical documentation, it provided Vatican information and highlighted the Church’s work through historical documents. It also included literature in every language, though its primary focus remained the panorama of charity extended to the victims of the conflict, as commentary on reports and photographs sent by the Office and the Secretariat of State. Throughout the entire duration of the war, it thus coordinated a complex body of firsthand information, serving as the voice of the Holy See for all the good that radiated amid infinite suffering.
In the immediate postwar period, its vitality was ensured by the development of various columns. At one point, a monographic orientation seemed to prevail (see, for example, the issues of October, November, and December 1945, which respectively addressed, framed within a vivid context, *The Clergy and the War*, *Pain and the War*, and *Christian Beatitude Amid War*). Yet the magazine’s line adhered to its program of documenting Catholic life in the most significant events, extending even into poetry and art. Notable were its *Vatican Chronicles*.