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A number of other scholars replied with favourable accounts of Pius XII, including Margherita Marchione's Yours Is a Precious Witness: Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy (1997), Pope Pius XII: Architect for Peace (2000) and Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII (2002); Pierre Blet's Pius XII and the Second World War ...
Cupimus imprimis (January 18, 1952) is an apostolic letter of Pope Pius XII to all the faithful in China regarding their persecutions and the persecution of the Catholic Church. [ 1 ] Cupimus Imprimis expresses the great admiration and love of the Chinese people.
Pope Pius XI was editing and putting the finishing touches on Humani generis unitas when he died in February 1939, and his successor, Pope Pius XII, subsequently chose not to publish it, possibly in light of strong anti-Judaic or anti-rabbinic language in parts of it, which could be misunderstood by the faithful or perverted by pro-Axis media. [13]
Communium interpretes dolorum is an encyclical by Pope Pius XII stating an urgent need for World War II to end, appealing for prayers for peace during the month of May, 1945. It was delivered in Rome, at St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday, 15 April 1945, in the seventh year of his pontificate.
Bis saeculari (September 27, 1948), is an apostolic constitution, of Pope Pius XII on the Sodality of Our Lady issued to mark the two hundredth anniversary of the Papal bull Gloriosae Dominae of Pope Benedict XIV in 1748. Apostolic constitutions are the highest form of papal teaching, above encyclicals, below dogmatization ex cathedra.
Addressing the problems of racism and anti-semitism in 1939, Pius XII said: What a wonderful vision, which makes us contemplate the human race in the unity of its origin in God in the unity of its nature, composed equally in all men of a material body and a spiritual soul; in the unity of its immediate end and its mission in the world; in the unity of its dwelling, the earth, whose benefits ...
The Vulgate, made mostly by Jerome, had formed the textual basis for all Catholic vernacular translations of the Bible until Pius XII's encyclical. Divino afflante Spiritu inaugurated the modern period of Roman Catholic biblical studies by encouraging the study of textual criticism (or 'lower criticism'), pertaining to text of the Scriptures themselves and transmission thereof (for example, to ...
There was no "dominating personality" as Pius XII had been in 1939 and the customary search for contrast suggested a "pastoral pope" to follow a "diplomatic pope". [8] Another analysis set the likely age range between 55 and 70, with a preference for an Italian outside the curia. [9] Several papabili were discussed.