Surveying Cardinal Augustin Bea’s Path of Destruction: From Pius XII to the Synod and Beyond
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The Remnant Newspaper ^
| October 10, 2023 | Robert Morrison
Surveying Cardinal Augustin Bea’s Path of Destruction: From Pius XII to the Synod and BeyondIn his February 25, 2019 address on the fiftieth anniversary of Cardinal Augustin Bea’s death, Francis praised Bea’s ability to foster unity among all people as well as his immense influence at Vatican II: “[The Cardinal Bea Centre
for Judaic Studies], in collaboration with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Center for the Study of Christianity in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is commemorating Cardinal Augustin Bea by a series of scholarly lectures marking the fiftieth anniversary of his...
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[Catholic Caucus] Pius XII’s Humani Generis, and the Holy Ghost’s Protection of What John XXIII Rejected
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The Remnant Newspaper ^
| July 18, 2023 | Robert Morrison
[Catholic Caucus] Pius XII’s Humani Generis, and the Holy Ghost’s Protection of What John XXIII Rejected“The Holy Spirit does not always prevent the necessary consequences of our negligence.” (Fr.
Alvaro Calderon, Prometheus: The Religion of Man, p. 201) In his One Hundred Years of Modernism, Fr. Dominique Bourmaud provided a sobering assessment of the way in which the architects of Vatican II so thoroughly disavowed Pius XII’s encyclical condemning the errors threatening the Church, Humani Generis:“Humani Generis appeared in 1950. The year 1965 marked the closing of the Second Vatican Council, which cast doubt on the fundamental points reaffirmed by...
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[Catholic Caucus] Shelf Warmer: Francis' "New Morality" Was Already Condemned By Pius XII
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Gloria TV ^
| August 12, 2022 | Gloria TV
[Catholic Caucus] Shelf Warmer: Francis' "New Morality" Was Already Condemned By Pius XIIAs early as 1952, the Francis' “rigidity” accusation which is used to promote immorality was debunked by Pius XII (+1958).In his 23 March 1952 Radio Message, Pius XII condemned Situation Ethics, an ideology of which Francis is a representative which
evaluates human acts only in light of their narrow situational context ("case by case") rather than by the application of broad-minded moral principles which Situation Ethics attempts to denigrate.Therefore, Pius XII said: "The accusation of oppressive rigidity made against the Church by the ‘new morality,’ in reality, attacks,...
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[Catholic Caucus] Viganò on Liturgical Revolution and the Holy Week Reforms of Pius XII
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Remnant Newspaper ^
| May 10, 2022 | Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
[Catholic Caucus] Viganò on Liturgical Revolution and the Holy Week Reforms of Pius XII Dear Monsieur…,Thank you for sending Abbé…'s question to me regarding the reform of Holy Week.I agree with him that the reform can effectively be considered a sort of trial balloon with which the architects of the subsequent
conciliar reform introduced an entire series of modifications – which in my opinion were entirely questionable and arbitrary – to the Ordo Majoris Hebdomadæ as it existed up until that time.I would say in fact that this modification may have appeared almost harmless, albeit bizarre, because the mens...
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The Poisonous Fruit of the "New Morality" ~ Pius XII and his radio address of March 23, 1952
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Gloria Romanorum ^
| March 24, 2021 | Florentius
On March 23, 1952, Venerable Pope Pius XII gave a radio address on the necessity of Catholics to properly form their own consciences and to provide for the proper Catholic education of the youth in matters of conscience. In
that same address, he also cautioned of the dangers of an encroaching “new morality” which found the Church’s moral rules oppressive, rigid, and ultimately impossible to follow. We are now nearly 70 years from the broadcast of that radio address. When one looks at Western civilization in general and the state of the Catholic Church in the West in particular over...
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"Volumes could be written on the multiform works of succor of Pius XII" ~ The testimony of Eugenio Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome during World War II
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Gloria Romanorum ^
| February 4, 2021 | Florentius
“No hero in history has commanded such an army; none is more militant, more fought against, none more heroic than that conducted by Pius XII in the name of Christian charity.” These
are the words of an elderly Italian Catholic known as Professor Eugenio Maria Zolli. He was not always known by this name, however. Prior to 1945, he was known as Rabbi Israel Zolli, and before that, as Israel Anton Zoller. He was born in 1881 in what was then a Polish region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His mother was a German Jew and on her side of the...
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Pius XII: "Disturbances, riots and revolts are organized and fomented" by Atheism, when Religion is taken away.
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Rorate Ceeli ^
| March 12, 1950 | Pope Pius XII
Pius XII: "Disturbances, riots and revolts are organized and fomented" by Atheism, when Religion is taken away. That
which seems to Us not only the greatest evil but the root of all evil is this: often the lie is substituted for the truth, and is then used as an instrument of dispute. On the part of not a few religion is passed by as a thing of no importance, and elsewhere absolutely prohibited in family and social life as a remnant of ancient superstitions; public and private atheism is exalted in such a way that God and His law...
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[Catholic Caucus] Sermon of Pius XII on Passion Sunday
The virus (or the economic harm that the reaction to it is causing) as a punishment for so many sins in the world
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Catholic Action, Vol. XXXII, No. 5, May, 1950, pp.3-4. | March 26, 1950 | Pius XII
THE SPONTANEOUS and ardent devotion, beloved sons and daughters, with which you flocked here on his day of penance could not better interpret Our intentions nor fulfill with greater satisfaction for Us the desire of Our Heart confided to you on the vigil of the opening of the Holy Door, when We
exhorted you to give life and strength to a fervent spiritual movement of expiation during this Jubilee Year. On this particular Sunday, the Church opens the sacred time of the Passion and with the sorrowful note of its rites causes the drama of the Divine Expiator of human...
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Death and Funeral Rites of Pius XII
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YouTube ^
| 06-21-2012 | Istituto Luce Cinecittà
Today is the anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII. The film footage is from one of the Italian newsreel firms.
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Vatican City Under Pius XII (Rare documentary from 1941)
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YouTube ^
| 03-31-2019 | Time Marches On
A rare documentary by the people who did the Time Marches On newsreels from 1941. Note
this was before the US entry into World War II. The film explores the history and working of the Vatican City during the reign of Pope Pius XII. (appx 18 minutes)
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Pope Francis Says Secret Archives On Holocaust-Era Pope Pius XII Will Be Opened Early
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MSN/ Time ^
| 3/4/19 | Billy Perrigo
<p>Lake Turkana, KenyaHelicopter crash in Kenya kills four Americans and their pilot Dr. Walid FitaihiUS State Department confirms American citizen held in captivity in Saudi… Pope Pius XII © ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images Pope Pius XII Pope Francis announced Monday that the Vatican’s archives on controversial World War II-era pope
Pius XII would be opened up eight years earlier than planned, in 2020, a move seen as an olive branch to Jews who have criticized the Vatican for not doing enough during the Holocaust.</p>
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Pius XII's Condemnation of Situation Ethics: "Accusations of rigidity first attack... [Cath Cauc]
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Rorate Caeli ^
| 1952 | PiusXII / Andrew Guernsey
Pius XII's Condemnation of Situation Ethics: "Accusations of rigidity first attack the adorable person of Christ" "Taking, therefore, the words of Christ and of the Apostle [Paul] as the strict rule, should not one say that the Church of today is rather inclined more to coddling than to severity? It
so happens that the accusation of oppressive rigidity made against the Church by the ‘new morality,’ in reality, attacks, in the first place, the adorable Person of Christ Himself." These words, uttered 65 years ago in 1952 by Pope Ven. Pius XII against so-called 'situation ethics' ring true today now...
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Prophetic Speech of Pope Ven. Pius XII Warns of "a Church which Weakens the Law of God"
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Rorate Caeli ^
| February 20, 1949 | Pope Pius XII
In this time of new persecutions against Christians by Islamicists, secularists, and sexual anarchists, and of a pope who so openly emboldens and gives comfort to these and other enemies of Holy Mother Church, while shirking his duty to confirm his brethren in the faith, we publish in English translation (below) the
prophetic words of the Venerable Pope Pius XII, given on February 20, 1949 to the people of Rome, condemning the persecution of Christians in Eastern Europe by the socialist and communist dictatorships. Pius XII warns of "a Church which weakens the law of God, adapting it to the taste of...
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Pope Pius XII: Vindication
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New Oxford Review ^
| March 2017 | Mary McWay Seaman
The decades-long controversy over whether Pope Pius XII failed to do and say enough to thwart Nazi atrocities has been dubbed the “Pius Wars.” Mark Riebling has struck a firm blow for Pius’s defenders by using recently unsealed transcripts and files to turn the oft-repeated narrative on its head. Riebling
builds his case around Bavarian lawyer Josef Müller, whom the Nazis called “the best agent of the Vatican Intelligence in Germany.” The Nazis eventually arrested Müller for protecting Jews and conspiring to kill Hitler and accused him of “using the spy service of the Catholic clergy.” A war hero and...
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The Pontificate of Pius XII
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Fr. Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment ^
| Fr. John Hunwicke
The endless and vulgar showcasing of Papa Bergoglio demonstrates how inherently dangerous this cult of personality really is. Turning
the Servus servorum Dei into a cosmopolitan celeb obscures, rather than expresses, his true place in the Church Militant. Even Pio Nono did not consider that his Primacy (which he was indeed so anxious to get defined) required him to gad around the world showing it off like a girl with an engagement ring.
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Catholics and Jews pan film defending wartime Pope Pius XII
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Daily Mail / Reuters ^
| March 3, 2015 | Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY, March 3 (Reuters) - A new Italian film that attempts to defend wartime Pope Pius XII against accusations he turned a blind eye to the Holocaust has been panned by the Vatican as well as Catholic and Jewish media. "Shades
of Truth" is the account of a fictional present-day American journalist who starts off as a critic of Pius and changes his mind after research in Israel, Rome and elsewhere in Europe. [SNIP] After a screening on Monday near the Vatican, the film, which calls Pius "the most misunderstood person of the 20th century", was universally panned. The...
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In Defense of Pius XII
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the-american-catholic.com ^
| February 11, 2015 | Donald R. McClarey
The guy whose behavior during the Nazi occupation converted the chief rabbi of Rome to Catholicism was working with the Nazis? The guy who was supposedly so silent and passive, at best, did enough that EWTN found a dozen paged of quotes from contemporary Jewish sources that were favorable to his behavior?
A Pope who is defended from such accusations by a Jewish historian (formerly of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America) who not only debunks the claims, but describes Pius XII as the greatest friend to Jews of the 20th century? The man who, at his death, got this...
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Pope Pius XII on Large Catholic Families
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OnePeterFive ^
| January 19, 2015 | Brian Wiliams
Below is an excerpt from an address given by Pope Pius XII to the Directors of the Associations for Large Families of Rome and Italy in January 20, 1958, the nineteenth (and final) year of his papacy. Throughout
the address the Holy Father eloquently speaks of the joy, sacrifice and generosity so prevalent amongst those families who God has abundantly blessed with the gift of children. “Large families are the most splendid flower-beds in the garden of the Church; happiness flowers in them and sanctity ripens in favorable soil. Every family group, even the smallest, was meant by God to...
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Pope Pius XII - Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J. with Sr. Margherita Marchione
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EWTN ^
| 6 October 2010 | Sr. Marcherita Marchione
EWTN Global Catholic Television Network: EWTN Live - Fr. Mitch Pacwa, S.J. - Sr. Margherita Marchione - Pope Pius XII
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Pius XII On Those Who Put Faith In Evolution, Like Materialists And Communists Do
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Pewsitter.com ^
| October 29, 2014 | Frank Walker
Nate Anderson at ars Technica science site reported on Pope Francis' words on creation, the Big Bang, and evolution theory. Though
only a few paragraphs long (and currently available only in Italian; the translation below is unofficial), Francis's remarks focused largely on evolution—still a controversial doctrine in parts of the worldwide Christian church. "When we read in Genesis the account of Creation, we are in danger of imagining that God was a magician, complete with a magic wand capable of doing anything," Francis said. "But he was not. He created beings and let them develop in accordance with the internal...
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