Word: xii
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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...
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...
...Moselle into one, engulfing Thionville, then launched a push which carried across the German border. The 3rd Cavalry Division seized the German villages of Besch and Wochern, while the 10th Armored rumbled through a place called Launstroff-three miles inside Germany. Major General Manton S. Eddy's XII Corps, halted only briefly by counterattacks, was swinging around to the south and east of Metz toward Saarbrücken...
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...