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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...
...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 of the Assumption.† For the crisis the Church faced 100 years ago continues...
After his election, Pius XII received the first "obedience" of the College of Cardinals, each kissing his red leather slipper. During the ceremony, he was heard to murmur: "Miserere mei, Deus [Pity me, Lord...
...Pius XII, now 77, works an 18-hour day, seven days a week. He rises at 6:15 every morning, opens his windows, prays, and takes a cold shower. He shaves with an electric razor. While he shaves, a goldfinch named Gretel-one of five small pet birds he keeps-perches on his arm as it moves with the razor.* Until he goes to sleep in his simple brass bed between 12 and 2 a.m., Gretel is his only entertainment. He rarely listens any more to the records from his fine collection (favorites: Bach, Brahms, Wagner), and he has given...
...personal theologian, an Irish priest named Michael Browne, but, as in the days when he was a "library mouse," the Pope loves to do his own research. He will not trust a secretary to verify a quotation. Unlike his predecessor (who locked it in a closet), Pius XII uses his telephone constantly; he has a one-way line-no one can dial the Pope...