Word: xii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such language had significance not only for U.S. Catholics, but for church members all over the world. Obviously, this militant indorsement of United Nations war aims would not have been made without due regard for the sympathies of Pope Pius XII. In no Axis country has the Catholic Church come out to pray for victory or pronounce the Axis' cause righteous...
Last week Pope Pius XII conferred on his Apostolic Delegate to the U.S. power to appoint substitutes for the Sacred Roman Rota (court to which Catholic cases from all over the world are appealed). This is the first time in modern history that the Vatican-final earthly tribunal for all things Roman Catholic-has granted such authority to any one outside Rome...
...these extramarital relaxations were not enough, then there were two other good reasons for dropping Serrano into the political ashcan. Three months ago in Rome, Pope Pius XII dressed him down for his sparsity of morals and his abundance of pro-Axis sympathies. Leaving the audience in a white rage, Serrano reportedly cracked: "This fellow is impossible!" In Catholic Spain the slur was intolerable. Even worse was Serrano's bumble of Aug. 15 when his Falangist thugs tossed a grenade into a crowd coming out of Bilbao Cathedral...
...world last week (from the Vatican State to Italy to Switzerland) leaked a report which Cardinal von Faulhaber recently sent Pope Pius XII. The Nazis' systematic war against Christianity, said the Cardinal, has contributed to Germany's present "spiritual unrest," to "manifestations against the regime" which the authorities call "machinations of Foreign Judeo-Communistic elements...
Pope Pius XII's 25th anniversary as a bishop was celebrated this week by the world's 338,386,000 Roman Catholics. He was consecrated at 41 in the Sistine Chapel by Pope Benedict...