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...Charles XII of Sweden invaded Russia in 1707 to punish Tsar Peter for raids on his Baltic provinces. Peter drew him beyond his depth...
...millions of Catholics who had long awaited guidance, to statesmen who cocked careful ears on both sides of the battle lines, Pope Pius XII last week broadcast his first solemn pronouncement on basic social issues-the rights of the individual v. the growing power of the State; the equitable distribution of social goods; the relations of capital & labor; the importance of the family; the necessity of Lebensraum for overcrowded peoples; the need for a return to the land. The Pope's address charted the rights and obligations of Catholics in a changing society and foreshadowed the Church...
...hierarchy was raised to archiepiscopal dignity last week in the person of sandy-haired, twinkling-eyed Most Rev. Robert Emmet Lucey. With all the pomp and circumstance of his church's ritual, he was enthroned as Archbishop of San Antonio. The Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Pope Pius XII's Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., himself installed him. For the dozens of bishops and archbishops, the scores of red-robed monsignori, the hundreds of priests and nuns, the thousands of lay folk who jammed San Fernando Cathedral and the Military Plaza outside, it was a significant...
Because of the war, Pope Pius XII last week let it be known he would not celebrate the usual elaborate Easter Mass in St. Peter's, ending with a blessing urbi et orbi, "to the city and the world." To 3,000 pilgrims the Holy Father expressed his hope "that the nations in conflict today may as soon as possible sheathe their swords and attain a sure peace based on justice...
Eugenic Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, is an Italian, but he is neutral. He is also honest and suffers acutely because the Axis press and radio systematically distort his acts, words and purposes, try incessantly to persuade the world that somehow or other His Holiness is on the totalitarian side against Democracy. Recently, for instance, the Nazi-dominated No. 1 Catholic news-organ of the Czech Protectorate declared: "There is no Catholic in Europe who would shed a tear to see the collapse of democratic political disorder and who further would not sincerely welcome the fall of economic liberalism, which...