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...Pacelli negotiated a Concordat with social-democratic Prussia. When Lutherans objected, Pacelli suggested calling the Concordat a "solemn convention." Everybody was pleased...
...Pacelli was called to Rome, made a Cardinal and two months later Vatican Secretary of State-the official of whom Sixtus V once wrote: "He must know everything, understand everything -but he must say nothing...
...Pacelli was ordained a priest. Almost at once Monsignor Gasparri, later papal Secretary of State and Pius XI's grey eminence, invited Pacelli to stop teaching law at the Roman Seminary of Apollinare and to help him make history in the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs (the Vatican's foreign relations office). Pacelli continued there and in the Secretariat of State until he became Pope in 1939. Nevertheless, he saw more of the Church Universal than any other prelate in papal history...
...Russian Revolution had just begun) Pacelli went as Papal Nuncio to Munich, tried (and failed) to talk the Kaiser into a peaceful frame of mind After the Kaiser fled, Pacelli lived through the Bavarian Soviet Republic. On one occasion he faced down a band of armed revolutionaries who had broken into the Papal Embassy, intending to loot the building...
...Archbishop Pacelli* concluded a Concordat with Bavaria. Franz Ritter von Epp's forces had overthrown the Soviet, and a police spy named Adolf Hitler was scooping in revolutionary circles for the new government...