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...Pius XII (later, to Winston Churchill) : Tell my son Joseph he will meet my divisions in heaven...
...Rome. They were cheering not only the office, not only a faith, not only the past in which they glory. They were cheering not only the Pontifex Maximus as they have almost always cheered him, but a man. For Eugenio Pacelli, for the past 15 years known as Pius XII, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, is a new kind of Pope...
More than any other Pope in history, Pius XII is heard outside his own Church, for millions of non-Catholics-disagree as they might with Roman Catholic dogma -have come to expect from him an occasional, tonic reminder of Christian morals, phrased with a lofty sense of verities...
...Pius entered the basilica, under a velvet and damask canopy, while the choir sang the triumphant Tu es Petrus. Then, with members of a Catholic Action youth group, he recited the prayer he wrote for the Marian Year: "Enraptured by the splendor of your heavenly beauty, and impelled by the anxieties of the world, we cast ourselves into your arms, O Immaculate Mother of Jesus . . . Bend tenderly over our aching wounds. Convert the wicked, dry the tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble, quench hatreds, sweeten harshness, safeguard the flower of purity in youth, protect...
...When Pius IX proclaimed the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception a century ago, the Age of Enlightenment had proclaimed sin to be a word with which to frighten children, scientific progress was god, and man was widely regarded as merely a higher animal. The Marian dogma challenged this non credo of the age-an assertion that man is sinful but touched by God, that the greatest mysteries are beyond science, that the supernatural and the spiritual are real. That is also the significance of Pius XII's attention to Mary, including the proclamation three years ago of the Dogma...