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| | Pope Pius XII and Our Lady |
 | | Pius XII was instrumental in establishing the Feast of Mary's Queenship. | | | Pius XII had a deep personal devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and from early in his pontificate was frequent in promoting love and veneration to her among the faithful. | | | The liturgical Feast of Christ the King honors the kingly dignity of Jesus Christ and was established in 1925 by Pope Pius XI. |
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http://www.udayton.edu/mary/meditations/May98.html
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| | Pope Pius XII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1950, Pius XII issued the encyclical Munificentissimus Deus and infallibly defined the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven. | | | The Church of course ignored this threat and elected Pacelli Pope Pius XII on March 2, 1939. | | | This definition was the only occasion in the 20th century a pope solemnly defined a dogma ex cathedra, i.e. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII
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| | Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust |
| | One of his last acts before becoming Pope in 1939 was to notify American and Canadian bishops of his displeasure at the reluctance of Catholic universities in their countries to accept more European Jewish scholars and scientists on their staffs, and he looked to the bishops to remedy this situation. | | | Although Pius XII's personal involvement was not known at the time, these statements were so strongly worded and partisan that they prompted vigorous protests from the German Ambassador to the Holy See, and even from Polish bishops. | | | Pius XII promptly passed along this message to Sir D'Arcy Osborne, Britain's envoy to the Holy See. |
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http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n5p26_Martinez.html
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| | Bishop Fiorenza - Pius XII |
| | The teaching of the Church as proclaimed by Pope John Paul II is the biggest obstacle to their efforts to promote abortion world-wide, as well as the acceptance of pre-marital sex, homosexual acts, physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, and other aberrations of traditional morality. | | | The moral authority and culture influence of the Church conflicts with their utilitarian and secular ideologies and they will not cease to do whatever they can to belittle the Church's influence around the world. | | | It is not likely that they will abandon the efforts to discredit Pius XII, because they believe it will diminish or discredit the moral authority of the Catholic Church. |
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http://faithleap.home.att.net/PiusXII.htm
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| | Pope Pius XII Vicar of Christ Servant of God Deserving of Sainthood |
| | Their essential logic is this simple: the Holocaust occurred, millions died, and the mighty Pope refused to exercise his incredible authority. | | | Jewish leaders worldwide recognized the greatness of Pius XII - the Pope who had saved the lives of so many thousands of people without distinction of race, nationality, or religion. | | | The accusers' strategy is to rewrite history, to ignore the reality of who had the power and the will to destroy mercilessly from 1933 to 1944 and to pretend that Pius XII possessed some kind of extraordinary ability that no one else in the world had - to make Hitler obey him. |
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http://www.piusxiipope.info
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| | Pope Pius XII and the Jews |
| | He overlooks, for example, the letters addressed by Pope Pius XII to the German bishops between 1939 and 1945. | | | It is true that the author cannot be reproached for not consulting the archives of Pope Pius XII’s pontificate (1939-1958). | | | Cornwell does not hide certain initiatives taken during the war by the Church to come to the aid of the Jews, but he minimizes them and treats them as if Pope Pius XII had no part in them. |
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http://www.sspx.org/against_the_sound_bites/piusxii_and_the_jews.htm
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| | WorldNetDaily: Catholic-bashers and Pius' defenders |
| | Not only did the church of Pius XII remain "silent while Europe's Jews were murdered," he alleges, the church of John Paul II taught Catholics that the "sin of letting the Holocaust happen at its doorstep need not haunt the church..." | | | In a brilliant new anthology, "The Pius War," every lie about the church and libel against Pius XII is addressed. | | | At war's end, Moshe Sharett, who would become the second prime minister of Israel, met with Pius XII and "told him that my first duty was to thank him and through him the Catholic Church on behalf of the Jewish public for all they have done in the various countries to rescue the Jews." |
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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44329
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| | Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust |
| | A letter from Konrad von Preysing, Bishop of Berlin, that proved that the Pope was aware of the situation as early as January of 1941, particularly caught the attention of the commission. | | | The Pope replied by quoting verses from Psalms and advising Septyckyj to "bear adversity with serene patience." | | | He was head of his church and was in direct communication with bishops everywhere. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/pius.html
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| | Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust |
| | he charity and work of Pope Pius XII during World War II so impressed the Chief Rabbi of Rome, Israel Zolli, that in 1944 he was open to the grace of God which led him into the Catholic faith. | | | On September 20, 1938, Pius XI told German pilgrims that no Christian can take part in anti-Semitism, since spiritually all Christians are Semites. | | | It was smuggled into Germany and read in all German Catholic churches at the same hour on Palm Sunday 1937. |
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http://users.binary.net/polycarp/piusxii.html
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| | Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights |
| | Angelo Roncalli (the future Pope John XXIII), expressing his gratitude for the actions taken by Pope Pius XII on behalf of the Jewish people. | | | Following Pope Pius' direct instructions, individual Italian priests and monks, cardinals and bishops, were instrumental in saving hundreds of Jewish lives. | | | These points are especially significant in evaluating Pope Pius XII's enduring legacy for twentieth, and twenty-first, century Jews. |
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http://www.catholicleague.org/pius/dalin.htm
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| | Pius XII and the Holocaust |
| | Description: A summary of the position of Pius XII and the Catholic Church against the Nazis. | | | The short article, Pius XII is victim of calumny, scholar says, lays out some of Fr. | | | In the papal encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge, whose final form Pius XI attributed to then-Cardinal Pacelli, he made the statement that Catholics must never be anti-Semitic because "we are all Semites spiritually" and ought to hold the Jewish people in high regard accordingly. |
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http://members.aol.com/cmcginmd/PiusXII_Holocaust.htm
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| | Pope Pius XII And The Holocaust |
| | The Pope received them in the Sistine chapel and, seeing that his Jewish visitors felt uncomfortable in that place, he came down from his throne and warmly welcomed them telling them to feel completely at home, saying "I am only the Vicar of Christ but you are His very kith and kin". | | | Jean Charles-Roux, now a Rosininian priest living in London and whose father was French Ambassador to the Holy See in the 30’s, lived with his family in Rome during the fateful pre-war period. | | | The following editorials, written on Christmas Day of 1941 and 1942, are published in the Catholic League book, Pius XII and the Holocaust; see the section on book orders for more information. |
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http://www.cfpeople.org/Apologetics/page51a039.html
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| | Pope Pius XII - A Verifiable Defense |
| | In his book The Last Three Popes and the Jews (Souvenir Press, London, 1967), Jewish historian Pinchas Lapide concludes that during the Nazi period "Pius XII, the Holy See, the Vatican’s Nuncios, and the whole Catholic Church saved between 700,000 and 850,000 Jews from certain death."... | | | In 1940, in a letter to be read in all churches entitled Opere et Caritate ("By Work and by Love"), Pope Pius XII instructed the Catholic bishops of Europe to assist all people suffering from racial discrimination at the hands of the Nazis. | | | These anti-Catholic sentiments also manifested themselves in chaotic student gatherings, the day before yesterday, in the University, which were attended by people who did not attend the university (and were not even from Bavaria) obliging the Rector in the end to close the university until further notice. |
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http://members.aol.com/johnjrh/pius.html
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| | Pope Pius XII - Ascension of Immortal Saints |
| | Pope Pius XII proclaimed, in the Catholic Church, the bodily Ascension of Mary, the Mother of Jesus, at the conclusion of her last physical embodiment - without passing through the change called death. | | | It is independent of The Theosophical Society, Agni Yoga Society, I AM Religious Activity of the Saint Germain Foundation, ADK Luk Publications, Ascended Masters Teaching Foundation, The Summit Lighthouse, Church Universal and Triumphant, or The Temple of The Presence. | | | The Word of the Ascended Masters is the ultimate Authority in any question relating to Truth. |
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http://www.ascension-research.org/pius-xii.html
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| | A Righteous Gentile (Pope Pius XII) |
| | In her book, Susan Zuccotti seeks to discredit the many tributes Pius XII received from Jews by insisting that most, if not all of them, were all motivated by ignorance and dishonesty in praising him. | | | The Catholic Church relief and rescue program under the pontificate of Pius XII was instrumental in saving the lives of as many as 860,000 Jews from certain death at Nazi’s hands. | | | Lapide says the Catholic Church saved more Jewish lives than all the other institutions in Europe put together. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418090/posts
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| | Catholic Culture : Document Library : The Charity of Pope Pius XII |
| | With a heart broken by the suffering of so many of her children, but with the courage and firmness that come from faith in the Lord's promises, the Spouse of Christ [the Church], advances towards the approaching storm. | | | An old priest, who could do nothing further, gathered around him in the church the women and children of the village (the men had been slaughtered outside the village) so that they might die together in the presence of the crucifix. | | | Nevertheless, I do feel the duty of rendering homage and of affirming that the charity of the Gospel was the light that showed the way to my old and weary heart. |
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http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=1068
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| | Amazon.com: Pius XII and the Second World War: According to the Archives of the Vatican: Books: Pierre Blet,Lawerence ... |
| | Blet makes it abundantly clear that Pius XII was an informed and eloquent foe of Nazism, and directed Church activity in furtherance of saving innocent Jewish lives from what he deemed to be the unmitigated evil of Nazism. | | | At a time when attempts to derail Pope's forthcoming beatification are intensifying, both Catholics and non-Catholics can finally educate themselves about this controversy by consulting Father Blet's extraordinary book. | | | In the end, the Catholic Church acted to save 860,000 Jewish lives from the clutches of Hitler, whose aggressive and frightful reign was ended only by the combined and sustained sacrifices of the world's greatest military powers. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0809105039?v=glance
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| | Pope Pius XII 2 June 1951 Promotion of Catholic Missions |
| | Our Predecessor of happy memory, Pius XI, in the Jubilee Year 1925, ordered a great missionary exhibition to be held; he described its striking success in the following words: "It seems almost a miracle, which gives us a new experimental proof of the vital unity and harmony of the Church of God among all nations. | | | Catholic inhabitants of missionary countries, although they are first of all citizens of the Kingdom of God and members of His great family,[46] do not for all that cease to be citizens of their earthly fatherland."[47] | | | Given at Rome, St. Peter's, 2nd day of June, the Feast of St. Eugene I, in the year 1951, the 13th of Our Pontificate. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/P12EVANG.HTM
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| | HPR Man of Peace: Pope Pius XII |
| | The attacks on Pope Pius XII are really an attack on the Catholic Church, an increasingly common phenomenon that is part of the virulent secularized culture. | | | He was ordained in 1899 and was elected Pope at the age of 63 in 1939, and lived 19 years as the Holy Father. | | | The chorus from Jews that this Pope had done all he could to alleviate the lot of the Jews cresecnded. |
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http://www.ignatius.com/magazines/hprweb/bk_marchione.htm
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| | Defending Pope Pius XII |
| | This book is particularly timely, coming as it does when one of the world's religions, Islam, has declared a holy war against the West and, seen in its wider implication, against all other religions. | | | "The liberal culture war against tradition--of which the Pope Pius XII controversy is a microcosm--must be recognized for what it is: an assault on the institution of the Catholic Church and traditional religion." | | | Renaissance popes were instrumental in collecting and protecting 116 Hebrew books and manuscripts. |
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http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=7417
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| | Homiletic & Pastoral Review - July, 2001 |
| | The Jewish community is in mourning for the death of Pope Pius XII, and with sincere sentiments it raises its prayers to the Lord that He may grant His generous and chosen soul every beatitude.” (The Tablet of London, October 25, 1958, p. | | | And the Catholic Church, on his direct authority, immediately dispersed as many Jews as they could.” | | | “For all these painful matters I have referred to the Holy See and simply carried out the Pope’s orders: first and foremost to save Jewish lives.” (Michael O’Carroll. |
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http://www.catholic.net/rcc/Periodicals/Homiletic/2001-07/marchione.html
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| | Patron Saints Index: Venerable Pope Pius XII |
| | Under his encouragement, a vast underground of priests, religious, and laity throughout Italy, served as a pipeline to save Jews and non-Jews alike from the Nazi government. | | | Through her prayers to the Redeemer may all of us, each in his own way, joyfully try to follow the inspriring example of Maria Goretti who now enjoys eternal happiness in heaven. | | | Undoubtedly she accomplished all this through the faith which was always so vibrant and alive in her heart; through the divine love which burned within her; and finally, through constant prayer by which she was so closely united with God from whom she humbly asked and obtained whatever her human weakness could not obtain. |
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http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/pope0260.htm
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| | Kevin Madigan, who is identified as a teacher at the Harvard divinity school, claims that here was a man who valued buildings instead of people. | | | Did Pope Pius and the Catholic Church do enough? | | | The letters were accompanied by a lengthy response from Madigan lambasting the pope. |
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http://www.catholicherald.com/shaw/shaw02/shaw0131.htm
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| | Pope Pius XII |
| | Pope Pius XII was a man of deep religious beliefs and dedication. | | | In any case, Pope Pius XII demonstrates the great effect that religious individuals and leaders can have on society and politics. | | | Who knows, if Pius XII had handled things differently, World War II may not have occurred, or at least, the Nazis would have had a tougher time beginning their drive for power. |
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http://www.trincoll.edu/classes/hist300/newpage41.htm
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| | Pope Pius XII 25 March 1954 Consecrated Virginity |
| | To Our Venerable Brothers, the Patriarchs, Primates, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Local Ordinaries in Peace and Communion with the Apostolic See. | | | Pope Pius XII 25 March 1954 Consecrated Virginity |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/P12SACRA.HTM
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| | But last week, after the Vatican issued its long awaited "mea culpa" for failing to do more, critics of the Church greeted the Vatican's statement with the sound of one hand clapping. | | | But the Pope refused to sign an Allied condemnation of Nazi attrocities against the Jews (and Christians) if he could not also condemn the slaughter of Jews and other religious believers by Stalin, then an ally of the United States. | | | "The voice of Pius XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness enveloping Europe this Christmas..He is about the only ruler left on the Continent of Europe who dares to raise his voice at all". |
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http://www.al-bushra.org/vatican/indefense.htm
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| | Big-Bang Theology - God makes a cosmological comeback. By Jim Holt |
| | Hence, creation took place in time, therefore there is a creator, therefore God exists!" | | | Pope Pius XII, opening a conference at the Vatican in 1951, declared that this scientific theory of cosmic origins bore witness "to that primordial 'Fiat lux' uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation. | | | Proof of the biblical account of creation had dropped into their laps. |
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http://www.slate.com/id/3142
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| | Pope Pius XII |
| | On Psychotherapy And Religion April 13,1953 [Address to a Congress] | | | Sacram Communionem (On Laws of Fasting and the Evening Mass) March 19, 1957 [Motu Proprio] | | | Si Diligis - Canonisation Of St Pius X May 31, 1954 |
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http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius12
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| | Pope Pius XII coins |
| | After the war Pius was alarmed by the resurgence of Communism in Italy and in 1949 he excommunicated Italian Catholics who joined the Communist party. | | | Pius had as only secretary of state Cardinal Luigi Maglione, and after his death in 1944 the pope acted as his own secretary of state. | | | In 1965 the proceedings for Pope Pius beatification were begun. |
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http://www.ilmarengo.com/vaticano/pio12/welcome.html
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| | Pope Pius XII Table of Contents |
| | Pope Pius XII Encyclical: On The Holy Places In Palestine | | | Pope Pius XII Encyclical: On Prayers For Peace In Palestine | | | We offer here some of the accusations made against the Pope and a number of responses from his defenders. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/piustoc.html
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