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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 ...
Pope Pius XII's previous encyclical Deiparae Virginis Mariae (1 May 1946) to all Catholic bishops stated that for a long time past, numerous petitions had been received from cardinals, patriarchs, archbishops, bishops, priests, religious of both sexes, associations, universities and innumerable private persons, all begging that the bodily Assumption into heaven of the Blessed Virgin should be ...
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.
Pope Pius XII apostolic constitutions and bulls includes a listing of all apostolic constitutions and papal bulls issued by Pope Pius XII (1939-1958): Bis saeculari (September 27, 1948) [1] Christus Dominus (January 6, 1953) [2] Exsul Familia (August 1, 1952) [3] Munificentissimus Deus (November 1, 1950) [4] Provida Mater Ecclesia (February 2 ...
The Church never saw missions as an end in themselves. Like Maximum illud (1919) of Benedict XV, and Rerum Ecclesiae (1926) of Pius XI, Pope Pius XII in 1944 saw the end of missionary work as the very measure of success "The magnanimous and noble purpose which missionaries have is the propagation of the faith in new lands in such a way that the Church may ever become more firmly established in ...
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.
Mediator Dei, par. 60), Pius XII approves the use of the vernacular in the Ritual for sacraments and other rites outside the Mass. All such permissions, however, were to be granted by the Holy See, and Pius XII strongly condemned the efforts of individual priests and communities to introduce the vernacular on their own authority.
Within a year of his election, Pope Pius XII made a dramatic change in policy on the Chinese Rites issue. At his request, the Sacred Congregation of the Propagation of Faith issued new instruction on December 8, 1939, by which Chinese customs were no longer considered "superstitious" but an honourable way of esteeming one's relatives and therefore permitted to Catholic Christians. [2]