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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...
...complex, fascinating brothers took their achievements lightly. In Rome to be honored by Pius XII, Ronald chat ted amiably with the Pontiff about the Loch Ness monster. When Edmund, in his 70s, was asked to write his autobiography, he declined, but suggested a title: Must We Have Lives? Penelope, happily, decided that they must. - Mayo Mohs
When the Harvard Divinity School was founded 161 years ago, James Monroe was president of the United States, Pope Pius VII was head of the Roman Catholic Church, and the world in general held an outlook far different from that of modern society. The changes that have occurred since then, and in particular the trends of the last 20 years, have had a marked effect upon the Divinity School and its relationship with the outside world. In an effort to analyze this effect, Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School, has attempted, in a report to President Bok that will...
Hasler disputes the contention that most Vatican I bishops went to Rome seeking the infallibility decree. Instead, he asserts, Pius and the bishops supporting him outmaneuvered opponents of infallibility -without ever answering their historical arguments against it-so effectively that the council "degenerated into a ritual, mock discussion." Hasler provides new details on just how the outwardly jovial, accommodating "Pio Nono" plotted to get his infallibility decree...
Ostensibly, the Vatican council was supposed to be like the 1545-63 Council of Trent-a meeting of bishops that would exercise its own powers. But as Hasler tells it, Pius IX, then 78 and determined to complete his struggle to centralize church control in his office, dominated the council from the start. He decided that the less anyone knew about Trent, the better; so when the director of the Vatican Archives ordered a review of the Trent rules, Pius fired him in a "raving scene...