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...apple in Cornwell's tale of sin is papal power. Pius, born Eugenio Pacelli, hailed from a family of Vatican loyalists dedicated to tightening Rome's rein on its semi-independent European churches. As a diplomat in Germany, he pursued the long-term goal of a church-state pact granting Rome near total control over its Teutonic flock. No German leader would sign--until Hitler...
DIED. Mother Pasqualina Lehnert, 89, austere German nun who, as the de facto secretary, housekeeper and confidante of Pope Pius XII, was called the Pope's Guardian Angel; of a brain hemorrhage; in Vienna. Mother Pasqualina met Archbishop Eugenio Pacelli in 1918 when he was papal nuncio in Munich, moved with him to the Vatican and, after he was elected Pope in 1939, became the channel through which outsiders had to pass to gain access to the ascetic, withdrawn Pontiff...
...Vatican's assets began to grow, Francis Spellman, an American bishop then living in Rome, urged Eugenic Pacelli, the Vatican Secretary of State and later Pope Pius XII, to set up a modern stock portfolio to manage the funds better. After Pacelli became Pope, he decided to set up a bank. The IOR, established in 1942, served to shield some Vatican money from war-torn Europe...
While the young Montini studied the works of Catholic liberals, he also listened to one of the Church's last great autocrats-his superior in the Secretariat of State, Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli. In 1939 Pacelli became Pope Pius XII. Monsignor Montini, as a Substitute Secretary of State, was soon embroiled in the delicate Vatican maneuvering between the enemy forces of World War II. It was Montini, evidence suggests, who coined the famous phrase that Pope Pius uttered on the eve of that conflict: "Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost...
...freedom of conscience, as freeing them to vote Communist in good conscience. The result has split the nation's Catholic intellectuals into two warring groups, the "conciliari," who follow the Council, and the "Pa-celliani," who hold to the views of Pope Pius XII, the former Eugenio Pacelli. By supporting Catholic candidates, the Communists hope to exploit this "postconciliar" split. They now hope for more open Catholic support, both from ordinary voters and vocal Catholic intellectuals...