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...Roman-born patrician Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, bombing Rome differs from bombing any other city. The Holy Father has often lifted his voice against warfare, more than once deplored destruction from the air. But never before has the full power of papal rhetoric been turned on a specific bombing. Last week, while the bombs fell four miles and more away, the Pope prayed in his private chapel. Later he visited San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, found it "in grandissimi parte" destroyed, though the altar and the tomb of Pius IX survived. Drawing upon his rich reservoir of sonorous prose...
President Roosevelt gave Axis Europe the measure of its fate last week. In a message to Pope Pius XII, the President said that the churches and the religious institutions of Italy will be spared destruction "to the extent that it is within our power." It was a promise that nothing else will be spared...
Chaplain (Colonel) William D. Cleary, commandant of the Chaplain School, has been elevated to the rank of Domestic Prelate of the Papal Household by His Holiness Pope Plus XII, it was announced last week by the Roman Catholic Military Ordinariate in New York...
...days after Roosevelt spoke, worried Pope Pius XII, addressing 25,000 workmen brought to Vatican City from all parts of Italy, warned: "Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord." He decried anti-religious propaganda among the people, inveighed against labor-employer strife, condemned "social" revolution as "a mere show incapable of realization in fact." More than ever it was apparent that the hope for the underground, and for all Italian democrats, lies first in unconditional surrender, followed by military occupation. After that, if the Allies are wiser than they were in North...
Born. To the Marchese Giulio Pacelli and Signora Piera Bombrini Pacelli: a son, Eugenio; somewhere in Italy. His namesake and granduncle: Pope Pius XII...