Before the hundredth commemoration of Armenian Genocide Vatican will publish a book documented from its secret archives. The announcement was made at the opening of the exhibition “Lux Arcana”. In its archives, the Vatican has a number of documents that reflect the genocidal done on the Armenian people. These will be announced shortly co-published with the Vatican Archives.

Reportedly, the official said Secret Archives, Monsignor Sergio Pagano, describe “in detail” the “torture procedures used the Turks against the Armenians.” For example, he said, “there is evidence of how the soldiers of the Sublime Porte were willing to bet” on the sex of the fetus in the womb of pregnant women before cutting them into quarters and with the same knife they killing babies. “

These episodes, said the Archivist of the Vatican, “make me ashamed to be a man, and if it were not for faith I would see only darkness.”

The Catholic Church is still waiting for a recognition of the genocide by the Turkish state, although recently some progress has been made. For example, it has become easier to make pilgrimages to the church of Tarsus, the birthplace of St. Paul.

It is likely that the publication of these documents will revive tensions between the Holy See and Turkey. But that is the price that the truth will come out in the open to the chagrin of Holocaust deniers.