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...Holiness, Pope Pius XII...
...done more for peace than any other man in the last ten years, Pope Pius XII...
...Rome, Pope Pius XII issued an encyclical (Mirabile Illud) calling for a "sacred crusade" for peace. Though destined for other purposes, the human mind, he said, has devised "instruments of war of such power as to raise horror in the souls of all honest persons, above all because they do not strike only the armies but often wipe out private citizens-children, women, the aged and the sick-and with them sacred buildings and the most outstanding monuments...
...seemed fully confident that he and Stalin understood each other. As early as 1941 he wrote to Admiral William D. Leahy: "I do not think we need worry about any possibility of Russian domination" in Europe. He wrote Pope Pius XII: "I believe there is a real possibility that Russia may as a result of the present conflict recognize freedom of religion in Russia...
From a proud Newark, N J. representative, Pope Pius XII accepted a gold badge making him an honorary member of the Newark Police Department...