Word: pius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pius XII last week used his annual Christmas message to expound the Vatican's views on world politics. This was the first of six wartime Christmases at which Fascist guards have not stood ominously at every entrance of Vatican City. And this time, without giving democracy direct support,* the Pope clearly lined up the Roman Catholic Church with a democratic organization of the postwar world...
Pouring his pontifical periods in precise Italian into the microphone in his library, Pius XII declared: "Beneath the sinister lightning of the war that encompasses them, in the blazing heat of the furnace that imprisons them, the peoples have . . . awakened from a long torpor. . . . Taught by bitter experience, they are more aggressive in opposing the concentration of dictatorial power . . . and call for a system of government more in keeping with the dignity and liberty of citizens. These multitudes . . . are today firmly convinced . . . that had there been the possibility of censuring and correcting the actions of public authority, the world would...
...Communism! Having thus as a matter of foreign policy described the Roman Church, once the staunch defender of the divine right of rulers, as an organ of democratic society, Pius XII was at lengthy pains to make plain that by democracy he did not mean Communism: "[The State] should in practice be the organic and organizing unity of a real people. The people and the shapeless multitude (or as it is called the masses) are two distinct concepts. The people lives and moves of its own life energy. . . . The masses, on the contrary, wait for the impulse from outside...
...Pope Pius XII spoke wise words: "In this grave moment radio can exercise the work of cohesion among the people, reconciliation and love among all nations, but in the hands of perverse men it can also transform itself into an instrument of hatred and ruin...
...Pope Pius XII last week altered the U.S. Roman Catholic map, creating a new archdiocese (Indianapolis) and three new dioceses (Steubenville, Ohio; Lafayette and Evansville, Ind.). To be Archbishop of Indianapolis, he named the city's Bishop since 1934, kindly, tolerant Joseph Elmer Ritter...