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Search for in author OR full textWord matches: xii: 128 pius: 263 Articles containing the exact phrase: 122 (shown first)Articles containing 2 single search words: 1 1 - Feb 2016 - Books: THE SHADOW OF HIS WINGS by Fr Gereon Goldmann, Chris Rule(Subscribers only - please login to view) Because he had not studied theology he had to obtain a dispensation from the pope Pius XII to be ordained. 2 - Feb 2016 - Liturgy: Holy Thursday: Pope changes feet-washing ceremony, AD2000 Report(Subscribers only - please login to view) With the reform of Pius XII in the 20th century the rite was moved to the Mass of the Lords Supper to the evening with the washing of the feet of twelve men (not necessarily clergy) taking place during the Mass after the homily. 3 - Aug 2015 - Reflection: The doctrine of the Assumption, Pope Pius XII On All Saints Day (1 November) 1950 Pope Pius XII proclaimed the doctrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary body and soul into heaven. 4 - Jul 2015 - Books: THE MYTH OF HITLER’S POPE, by Rabbi David G. Dalin, Paul Simmons Pius XII and the Jews THE MYTH OF HITLERS POPE By Rabbi David G. 5 - Apr 2015 - Pilate's inscription on the Cross, Andrew Sholl Hebrew liturgy The final comment I would like to make as a Hebrew Catholic and a survivor of the horrors of the Holocaust at age 4 to 5 Im now 75 is about the much-maligned Pope Pius XII who according to well- authenticated Jewish sources is credited with saving hundreds of thousands of Jews from almost certain death. 6 - Apr 2015 - Today's prophets: where are they?, Anne Lastman What about Pius XII who guided the church through the war years and protected and helped Jewish people in wartime Europe through various hidden ways and today is acknowledged as Righteous amongst the nations a title of honour given to those gentiles who helped Jews during the Holocaust. 7 - Apr 2015 - Tu es Petrus: From John XXIII to Pope Francis: Four recent stages of Catholicism, Patrick Morgan Catholics brought up in Victoria after the Second World War had for decades the unchanging leadership of Archbishop Mannix Sir Robert Menzies and Pope Pius XII whose reigns went on so long that by 1960 many people could remember no others. 8 - Feb 2015 - Letters: The Church in China, Paul Simmons After the Catholic Patriotic Association was established Pope Pius XII issued an encyclical letter Ad Apostolorum Principis (At the Tomb of the Prince of the Apostles) which documented the persecution of Catholics in China and the attempts being made by the Catholic Patriotic Association to control Chinese Catholics. 9 - Feb 2015 - What Pope Francis really said to the Roman Curia, AD2000 Report This is an expression which as Pope Pius XII explained springs up and in some way blossoms from the frequent teaching of sacred Scripture and the Fathers of the Church. 10 - Feb 2015 - The Pope and the Holocaust: why did Pius XII not speak out?, Robert A. Graham SJ People often ask: why did Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli not speak out more forcefully against Hitler? 11 - Aug 2014 - Reflection: The Assumption: Mary leads us to Heaven, Bishop Anthony Fisher When Pope Pius XII definitely proclaimed the dogma in 1950 (Munificentissimus Deus) we were soon to experience the so-called sexual revolution. 12 - Aug 2014 - Books: IN SEARCH OF CARDINAL STEPINAC: A Complete Biography, by Fr Zvonimir Gavranovic, Fr Steven Ledinich In recognition of his courageous defence of the rights of the Church in most difficult circumstances Pope Pius XII made him a cardinal in 1952. 13 - Jun 2014 - Saints John XXIII and John Paul II canonised, AD2000 Report Aged 78 at the time of his election he was viewed at the time as a stop-gap after the long pontificate of Pope Pius XII. 14 - May 2014 - Editorial: April 27: Canonisation of two great popes, Peter Westmore John XXIII aged 76 was elected on the 11th ballot in October 1958 and was initially regarded as a stop-gap pope succeeding the immensely popular Pius XII who had served for almost 20 years. 15 - Apr 2014 - Books: Jorge Mario Bergoglio: Francis, Pope of a New World, by Andrea Tornielli, Br Barry Coldrey Andrea Tornielli has written numerous books including Pius XII the Pope of the Jews; The Choice of Martini; Pope Luciani: the Smile of a Saint; The Pope Who Saved the Jews; Benedict XVI Guardian of the Faith; The Secret of Padre Pio and Karol Wojtyla and The Attack on Ratzinger (with Paolo Rodari) Although lacking illustrations this straightforward clear and reasonably short biography of Pope Francis will add to Torniellis reputation. 16 - Dec 2013 - Books: HOLY SEE, UNHOLY ME by Tim Fischer, John Barich Fischer is very clear-sighted on the injustice of attacking Pius XII as anti-Semitic. 17 - Dec 2013 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic World News Pius XII knew he would be misunderstood A priest who knew Pius XII personally and had access to every strip of paper in the Vatican archives says the pontiff believed he did the right thing during the Holocaust despite knowing he would be questioned. 18 - Oct 2013 - Pope Francis to consecrate world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Peter Westmore In her messages the Virgin Mary specifically asked for the consecration of Russia to her Immaculate Heart and based on these messages Popes Pius XII and John Paul II consecrated Russia and the world to the Virgin Mary. 19 - Sep 2013 - Letters: Anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Ken Bayliss Both authors explain the great influence of Pius XI and Pius XII in promoting Catholic Action throughout the world including the Campion Society (in Melbourne 1930) the forerunner the Movement and the National Civic Council. 20 - Aug 2013 - Reflection: Benedict XVI's Assumption homily: 'In God there is space for man', Benedict XVI On 1 November 1950 the Venerable Pope Pius XII proclaimed as dogma that the Virgin Mary having ended the course of earthly life was assumed into heavenly glory in soul and body. 21 - Aug 2013 - Books: FRANCIS: POPE OF A NEW WORLD, by Andrea Tornielli, Br Barry Coldrey Andrea Tornielli is Vatican correspondent for the major Italian newspaper La Stampa and has previously published a number of books including: Pius XII: Pope of the Jews Benedict XVI: Guardian of the Faith The Secret of Padre Pio and Karol Wojtyla and The Attack on Ratzinger. 22 - Aug 2013 - Sacra Liturgia 2013: Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith: interview on liturgy, Zenit News Service Cardinal Ranjith: Sacrosanc tum Concilium is a natural development for example of Mediator Dei the encyclical on the Sacred Liturgy of Pius XII and the process of reform which had been going on from the time of Dom Prosper Guranger author of The Liturgical Year in the 19th century. 23 - Jul 2013 - Musicae Sacrae: The essential role of music in the Mass, Ronan Reilly No one therefore will be astonished that always and everywhere even among pagan peoples sacred song and the art of music have been used to ornament and decorate religious ceremonies wrote Pius XII in his 1955 encyclical Musicae Sacrae. 24 - Jun 2013 - Why we need the Rosary, Cedric Wright Pius XII died reciting the Rosary; John XXIII prayed the entire 15 decades each day; Paul VI prayed the Rosary each evening with his personal secretary; for John Paul II it was his favourite prayer and Benedict XVI was never without his Rosary beads and made pilgrimages to the three major Marian Shrines (Guadalupe Lourdes and Fatima) during his papacy. 25 - Dec 2012 - News: The Church Around the World With developments in philosophical thought and in ways of understanding the modern State the doctrine of tolerance as worked out in detail by Pius XII no longer seemed sufficient. 26 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Transubstantiation, John Young Pius XII in his encyclical Humani Generis reaffirmed it noting that setting it aside leads to Christs Real Presence being thus reduced to a kind of symbolic communication . 27 - Aug 2012 - The Virgin Mary's key role in our salvation history, Cedric Wright In 1942 on the 25th anniversary of the apparitions at Fatima Pope Pius XII consecrated the entire world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and this was repeated by Pope John Paul forty years later. 28 - Nov 2011 - Saints: G.K. Chesterton: Is there a case for his canonisation?, Karl Schmude When he died the future Pope Pius XII sent a cable on behalf of the then Pontiff Pius XI calling Chesterton a gifted defender of the Catholic faith. 29 - Aug 2011 - Exegesis: Genesis account of creation and fall: what does the Church teach?, John Young Pope Pius XII expressed the constant belief of the Church when he rejected the idea that Adam was not an individual man but only a name given to some group of our ancestors. 30 - Aug 2011 - Homily: Benedict XVI: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Pope Benedict XVI It is 60 years since Venerable Pope Pius XII on 1 November 1950 solemnly defined this Dogma: We believe that Mary like Christ her Son overcame death and is already triumphant in heavenly glory in the totality of her being in body and soul. 31 - Jul 2011 - Lübeck martyrs of the Nazis beatified on 25 June, Frank Mobbs When we are inclined to blame Pope Pius XII and the German bishops for not speaking out against Nazi atrocities we might like to note what happened to anyone who even queried the justice of the regime. 32 - Jun 2011 - Books: MARRIAGE: The Rock on Which the Family is Built, by William E. May, Br Barry Coldrey In keeping with the traditional papal teachings on marriage and the family since Pope Pius XII the author explains persuasively how Christian marriage creates not only a stable institution from which to raise children but also the embodiment of the call to sanctification and holiness which all faithful Catholics have as their primary vocation. 33 - Feb 2011 - Book Review: Cardinal Pell and Pope Benedict XVI's interview, Cardinal George Pell The Holy Father is right to point out that sexual abuse is not just a Catholic or Christian problem that Pope Pius XII saved more Jews than anyone else and that the two vital issues for Islam are their attitudes to violence and reason. 34 - Sep 2010 - News: The Church Around the World World War II research vindicates Pius XII Claims of papal inaction in the face of Jewish persecution during World War II have been further challenged by a German historian conducting research in the Vatican archives who says that Pope Pius XII may have arranged for the escape of 200000 Jews from Germany in the weeks after the Kristallnacht Nazi attacks. 35 - Jul 2010 - Newly discovered World War II documents further vindicate Pius XII New findings have revealed documents and testimony which clearly show that on 16 October 1943 it was the intentional lack of a public denunciation by Pius XII against the arrest of the Roman Jews which saved their lives and enabled their rescue. 36 - Jun 2010 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: The Eucharist: the background to Vatican II's liturgical reforms, Br Barry Coldrey However Pope Pius XII through his encyclicals on the Mystical Body of Christ (Mystici Corporis 1943) the Sacred Liturgy (Mediator Dei 1947) and Sacred Music (Musicae Sacrae 1955) encouraged reform. 37 - Jun 2010 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic World News Archives show Church excommunicated Nazis An interreligious group trying to discover the facts regarding Pope Pius XII and his efforts to help Jews during World War II has announced the discovery of documents showing how the Church excommunicated Catholics who joined the Nazis. 38 - Apr 2010 - News: The Church Around the World Vatican Information Service Vatican archives on Pius XII to go online In cooperation with the Vatican the Pave the Way Foundation will soon publish online twelve volumes of World War II documents from the Holy See during the time of Pope Pius XII. 39 - Mar 2010 - Foundations of Faith: What the Second Vatican Council really said, John Young As indicated in the documents footnote to Pius XII this is the perennial philosophy of which St Thomas Aquinas is the greatest exponent. 40 - Mar 2010 - Culture of Life: Cardinal Pell receives pro-life von Galen Award, Babette Francis After his ordination he worked at Saint Matthias Church in Berlin where he became close friends with Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli later to be Pope Pius XII. 41 - Mar 2010 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic News Agency Pius XII defended in Israeli newspaper American writer Dimitri Cavalli has recently had an article defending Pope Pius XII published in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. 42 - Nov 2009 - Letters: Pius XII vindicated again, Arnold Jago Pope Pius XII sometimes labelled by certain writers as Hitlers Pope was nothing of the kind. 43 - Nov 2009 - Holocaust: English nun who saved Jews from the Nazis put forward as saint, AD2000 Report Pope Pius XII secretly ordered the religious houses of Rome to shelter Jews after the Gestapo seized 1007 Jews during a sweep of the city on 16 October 1943. 44 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Liturgy reform, Paul Martin It contains several references to his predecessors St Pius V and Pius XII and the latters reforming work after 1947. 45 - Sep 2009 - Reflection: The centrality of the tabernacle, Bishop John M. D'Arcy Pope Pius XII said of the altar and the tabernacle An awareness of their unity is more important than a realisation of their differences. 46 - Aug 2009 - Letters: Pope Pius XII vindicated, Tony Evans Readers overwhelmed and perhaps confused by the ferocity of the attacks on Pope Pius XII concerning his attitude to the Jews and his so-called silence during the Holocaust must be grateful to Fr Michael Butler for his article on this subject in AD2000 (July 2009). 47 - Aug 2009 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic News Agency Pope Pius XII and Jews: new evidence A foundation that promotes interreligious dialogue announced in June that it has more than 2300 pages of original documents illustrating Pope Pius XIIs efforts to help Jews in the face of Nazism. 48 - Aug 2009 - Editorial: Feast of Our Lady's Assumption, 15 August, Michael Gilchrist When on 1 November 1950 Pius XII declared infallibly that the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was a dogma of the Catholic Faith he was confirming what the Church had always believed down the centuries. 49 - Jul 2009 - History: Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust: revisiting Jewish sources, Fr Michael Butler For many years now the reputation of Pope Pius XII has been blackened by allegations of his apparent inaction and silence while the Jews of Europe were being murdered in the Nazi gas-chambers in their millions. 50 - Jun 2009 - Vocations: Brisbane's Holy Spirit Seminary: promising signs of growth, Anthony Barich Queenslands seminary was first established as Pius XII Seminary in 1941 to service the dioceses of Brisbane Cairns Rockhampton Toowoomba and Townsville. 51 - Apr 2009 - Benedict XVI addresses a Vatican conference on evolution and Christianity, Michael Gilchrist In his address Benedict said there was no opposition between faiths understanding of creation and the evidence of the empirical sciences as he quoted from Popes Pius XII and John Paul II. 52 - Oct 2008 - Eugenio Pacelli: The enduring legacy of Pope Pius XII: a 50th anniversary tribute, Fr John Walshe Without the rich and consistent papacy of Pope Pius XII the decrees and teachings of Vatican II would not have been possible. 53 - Aug 2008 - Letters: Timeless truths?, John Frey As an example Pius XII identified the Church of Christ with the Catholic Church in his encyclicals Mystici Corporis Christi (1943) and Humani Generis (1950) reflecting the traditional teaching of the Church: If we would define and describe this true Church of Christ - which is the One Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church - we shall find nothing more noble more sublime or more divine than the expression The Mystical Body of Christ (Mystici Corporis Christi 13). 54 - Mar 2008 - Tribute: B.A. Santamaria: ten years on, Cardinal George Pell There was no rupture no abrogation of most doctrines and practices followed by the Church between Vatican I and Pope Pius XII. 55 - Feb 2008 - Letters: True Church, John Frey The first is given by Pope Pius XII in his encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi which states (13) that this true Church of Jesus Christ is the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic and Roman Church the Mystical Body of Christ. 56 - Feb 2008 - A remarkable father remembered, Maria Rankin For Dad God always came first and he would be later knighted for this work by Pope Pius XII. 57 - Nov 2007 - Letters: True Church?, John Frey Instead of stating that the Church of Christ is the Catholic Church - as Pope Pius XII did in his encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi (13) - Lumen Gentium says that the one Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church governed by the successors of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him. 58 - Oct 2007 - More of the same: Retired Sydney bishop calls for a radical overhaul of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist Elsewhere on the doctrinal front Bishop Robinson believes that Pius XIIs infallible declaration in 1950 on Marys Assumption into heaven should never have been issued: The problem is that there is no evidence from the bible for the Assumption the tradition does not go back to the event itself and the arguments from the world around and within us are weak (p. 59 - Sep 2007 - Rome reaffirms Vatican II's teaching on 'one true Church', Frank Mobbs Preachers and conductors of seminars wax eloquent on the way Vatican II saw the light and abandoned the narrow and intolerant view of Christs Church that one finds in catechisms and in official documents such as Pius XIIs encyclical Mystici Corporis (1950). 60 - Jul 2007 - News: The Church Around the World Catholic News Agency Cardinal Bertones strong defence of Pius XII Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone the Vatican Secretary of State offered an extended defence of Pius XII on 5 June at a conference announcing the publication of a new biography by Andrea Tornielli titled Pius XII Eugenio Pacelli: A Man on the Throne of Peter. 61 - May 2007 - Books: The Catholic Church and the Counter-Faith, by Philip Trower, John Morrissey Existentialism which Pope Pius XII described as a strange confusion between thought and volition receives some of Trowers most biting comments while Friedrich Nietzsche undergoes brusque treatment. 62 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Presumption, John H. Cooney It came at the end of half a century including two horrendous World Wars which caused anguish to both Pope Benedict XV and Pope Pius XII and each experienced their efforts to restore peace being ignored. 63 - Dec 2006 - Letters: Infant Baptism The denial of that doctrine is commonplace but it is Catholic doctrine and its denial was condemned by Pope Pius XII in the encyclical Humani Generis (n. 64 - Sep 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing 95 Pope Pius XII: Architect for Peace Margherita Marchione Margherita Marchiones book provides a telling defence of Pius XII against critics - from Hochhuth to Cornwell - of his World War II role and in particular his alleged failure to intervene on behalf of the Jews. 65 - Aug 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from Freedom Publishing 95 Pope Pius XII: Architect for Peace Margherita Marchione Margherita Marchiones book provides a telling defence of Pius XII against critics - from Hochhuth to Cornwell - of his World War II role and in particular his alleged failure to intervene on behalf of the Jews. 66 - Aug 2006 - Music: Benedict XVI seeks a greater sense of the sacred in church music Musical approach Monsignor Bartolucci was named the perpetual director the director for life of the Sistine Chapel by Pius XII in 1959. 67 - Jul 2006 - Letters: Pope Pius XII, Br Con Moloney CFC In the June issue of AD2000 I read with interest Michael Daniels review of Ralph McInernys The Defamation of Pius XII. 68 - Jun 2006 - Books: The Defamation of Pius XII, by Ralph McInerny, Michael Daniel THE DEFAMATION OF PIUS XII by Ralph McInerny (South Bend Indiana: St Augustines Press 2001 187pp hardback $40. 69 - Mar 2006 - Modernism: 'New Church' not true Church: what modernists believe, Pastor Remotus Subversion Popes Pius XII and Paul VI likewise drew attention to a similar kind of subversion in the Church during their pontificates. 70 - Oct 2005 - Books: More good reading from AD Books Dalin Rabbi Dalin demolishes the recent vicious attacks on the reputation of Pius XII using the available evidence to demonstrate that this pontiff was a genuine friend and defender of the Jewish people. 71 - Sep 2005 - BOOKS: The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis, Thomas E. Woods Jr A new Jewish defence of Pius XIIs Holocaust role Just published in the United States and able to be ordered through AD Books is The Myth of Hitlers Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis by Rabbi David G. 72 - Sep 2005 - Cinema: The Church under Nazism: a sensitive film portrayal in 'The Ninth Day', Michael E. Daniel Early in the film the SS in dialogue argue that they did not view the actions of the Vatican as a threat; however they were worried about a proposed statement by Pius XII on the Jews. 73 - Aug 2005 - Letters: Real Presence (letter), John Schmid For those who really believe that the Eucharist is the Body and Blood of Christ Pope Pius XIIs encyclical Mediator Dei provides a reminder that a suitable thanksgiving should be made after Mass: When the Mass which is subject to special rules of the liturgy is over the person who has received Holy Communion is not thereby freed from his duty of thanksgiving; rather it is most becoming that when the Mass is finished the person who has received the Eucharist should recollect himself and in intimate union with The Divine Master hold loving and fruitful converse with Him. 74 - Aug 2005 - Benedict XVI's pontificate: the possibilities, Damian Thompson In the conclave following the death of Pius XII the cardinals elected a 77-year-old pope John XXIII who by the time of his death four-and-a- half years later had set in motion an aggiornamento a turning towards the world. 75 - Jul 2005 - Living Stones: Church architecture: can a sense of the sacred be recovered?, Christian Xavier How many parishioners would have read what Pope Pius XII wrote in his great encyclical on the liturgy Mediator Dei (62) in which he states that one would be straying from the straight path were he to wish the altar restored to its primitive table-form; were he to want black excluded as a color for the liturgical vestments; were he to forbid the use of sacred images and statues in churches; were he to order the crucifix so designed that the divine Redeemers body shows no trace of His cruel sufferings? 76 - Apr 2005 - Exploding myths about the 'pre-Vatican II' Church, John Young Scripture reading Pope Pius XII in the encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu of 1943 urged bishops to encourage the associations that promote daily Scripture reading among families. 77 - Mar 2005 - Editorial: Pray for John Paul II ..., Peter Westmore There have been many occasions when popes have spent their last years seriously ill and incapacitated: among recent popes Pius XII and Leo XIII are well-known examples. 78 - Jun 2004 - Books: The Outline Of Sanity, by G.K. Chesterton, Peter Westmore Too many Catholics who should know better reject or ignore the warnings and admonitions which issued from the popes from Leo XIII to Pius XII and have also remained ignorant of the critiques of the liberal capitalist system which have issued from Catholic intellectuals such as G. 79 - Apr 2004 - Books: AD Books - More new titles for 2004 95 A Pope and a Council on the Sacred Liturgy Edited by Alcuin Reid OSB This book provides the texts of Pius XIIs key document on Liturgy Mediator Dei and the Vatican II Liturgy Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium with a commentary by Fr Aidan Nichols OP. 80 - Nov 2003 - Letters: Celibacy (letter), Kim Albertini As far as Trent or Pius XII go was there any solemn definition on the matter with an extraordinary note of infallibility? 81 - Aug 2003 - Letters: Pantheism (letter), Fr G.H. Duggan When Pope Pius XII published his encyclical Humani Generis in 1950 every perceptive reader knew that one of its main targets was Teilhardism. 82 - Aug 2003 - Priesthood: Clerical celibacy 'for the sake of God's Kingdom': the Church's teaching, John Young Pius XII later confirmed that this was solemnly defined as a dogma of faith by the Holy Council of Trent and explained in the same way by all the Holy Fathers and Doctors of the Church (Encyclical Sacra virginitas n. 83 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Catholic visionary? (letter), Richard Congram Yet in defiance of Popes Pius Xl Pius XII John XXIII and Paul VI Teilhards disciples have continued promoting his insidious doctrines which were and still are in clear conflict with the magisterium. 84 - Jun 2003 - Interview: Vatican II and the liturgy, 40 years later, Zenit News Service Basically the work of the liturgical movement and Pius XII in Mediator Dei on the meaning and spirit of the liturgy was not properly assimilated before the Council. 85 - Mar 2003 - New Age ideas: how Catholics should respond, Fr Peter Joseph Pius XII sums it up so powerfully in Mystici Corporis: This is truly a tremendous mystery and one which can never be sufficiently meditated: namely that the salvation of many souls depends upon the prayers and voluntary mortifications offered for that intention by the members of the mystical Body of Jesus Christ. 86 - Feb 2003 - Liturgy: The sacrifice of the Mass: the Eucharistic words of Christ, Msgr Peter J. Elliott When priests offer the sacrifice for and with the people the Mass is the offering of the whole Mystical Body of Christ as taught by Pope Pius XII (Mediator Dei 80-111) and the Second Vatican Council (Lumen Gentium 10 34). 87 - Aug 2002 - Editorial: The Assumption of Our Lady: 15 August, Michael Gilchrist Although defined as an article of faith by Pope Pius XII as recently as 1950 the Assumption of Our Lady into heaven had been accepted as true from the earliest years of Christianitys existence. 88 - Jul 2002 - Books: A Pope and a Council on the Sacred Liturgy, by Aidan Nichols OP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott A POPE AND A COUNCIL ON THE SACRED LITURGY: Pope Pius XIIs Mediator Dei and the Second Vatican Councils Sacrosanctum Concilium with a comparative study by Aidan Nichols OP (St Michaels Abbey Press 2002 151pp $36. 89 - Jul 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000 Having worked closely with every Pontiff since Pius XII he had often been seen as a potential Pope himself and a representative of the rising strength of Catholicism in the Third World. 90 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Refugees, Arthur Negus If a nation chooses to enact precautionary laws for the safeguarding of its own genius and qualities it has the Churchs approval as long as all is done without prejudice to duties which the common origin and destiny of the whole human race impose upon us (Pope Pius XII Summi Pontificatus 1939). 91 - Dec 2001 - Books: De Lubac's writings in English translations, Tracey Rowland The intensity of the debates which followed culminated in Pope Pius XIIs encyclical Humani Generis. 92 - Nov 2001 - Letters: Catholic teaching, John Schmid Pope Pius XII in Humani Generis did not declare for or against evolution. 93 - Oct 2001 - Letters: Papal teaching (letter), John Young If Mr Keane were right in saying that Catholics are obliged to reject human evolution then both Pope Pius XII and the present Pope have violated this obligation! 94 - Sep 2001 - Letters: Church teachings (letter), Gerry Keane In Humani Generis (1950) polygenism was heavily frowned upon by Pius XII. 95 - Aug 2001 - Letters: Evolution/Original Sin (letter), John Schmid I would urge people to read: Catechism of the Catholic Church sections 388-390; Humani Generis Pope Pius XIIs encyclical sections 35-38; In the Beginning by Cardinal Ratzinger Third Homily (Creation and Evolution) and Fourth Homily (Original Sin); Questions People Ask by Rev Dr Leslie Rumble MSC section 28. 96 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Altar (letter), Stuart J. Blackwood As regards the altar Pope Pius XII had stated that To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their nature and their origin should remain united. 97 - Apr 2001 - News: The Church Around the World New revelations on Jews saved by Pius XII Testimonies from Founders of Israel As early as 1939 Pius XII organised special operations to help Jews persecuted by Nazism according to a new book on the Vaticans prewar and wartime activity. 98 - Feb 2001 - Books: 'Pope Pius XII: Architect For Peace' by Margherita Marchione, Michael Daniel Pope Pius XII: Architect For Peace Margherita Marchione (Gracewing 2000 330pp plus notes and index RRP $39. 99 - Jul 2000 - US historian criticises 'Hitler's Pope' book Regarding Pius XIIs work with European Jews Doorhy pointed to the 80 percent survival rate in Italy as far and away the highest rate in any of the Nazi occupied countries and the fact that the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust published in 1990 in Tel Aviv and written mostly by Jewish scholars credits Pope Pius XII with saving no fewer than half the Jews of Rome during the Nazi occupation. 100 - May 2000 - Books: 'The Legacy of Pope John Paul II' ed. Geoffrey Gneuhs, Anthony Cappello Fr Smith argues that the doctrinal-moral patrimony of John Paul II has surpassed the scope and volume of Pius XII and that John Paul II will have the same influence in the 21st century as Pius XII had in the 20th Century (p. 101 - May 2000 - News: The Church Around the World Support for Pius XIIs World War II role Conclusions of Russian historian One of the latest historical testimonies to Pope Pius XIIs honourable role during World War II has come from Russian historian Evghenija Tokareva. 102 - Apr 2000 - Should the Church apologise?, Fr Colin Barker The Catholic Church and very specifically that spiritual and intellectual giant of our century Eugenio Pacelli Pius XII are being held by some responsible for the Holocaust or at least not doing enough to prevent it. 103 - Mar 2000 - Biography: Fulton J. Sheen: prophetic inspiration for today's new evangelisation, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey Pope Pius XII once asked him how many converts he had made. 104 - Nov 1999 - News: The Church Around the World Father Peter Gumpel SJ Reporter of Eugenio Pacellis (Pius XII) Beatification Cause commented that there was legitimate indignation because Cornwell has simply produced an authentic set-up against Pius XII and against the . 105 - Oct 1999 - Apostleship of the Sea: the Stella Maris Seafarers' Centre, AD2000 Report Pope Pius XII had earlier transferred the Apostleships headquarters from Glasgow (Scotland) to an International Secretariat in Rome while the Australian bishops recognising that the care of seafarers was a task requiring more of the Churchs attention appointed an Episcopal Committee with a National Director to head the Apostleship of the Sea in Australia. 106 - Oct 1999 - Pope Pius XII's efforts to avert World War II, Zenit News Service The release this October of Hitlers Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwall signals yet another campaign against Pope Pius XII over his role during World War II and in particular his alleged silence and inaction over the Jewish Holocaust. 107 - Aug 1999 - Reflection: Hymn In honour of Our Lady's Assumption, Fr Ramsey Williams SSC Marys Assumption - the belief that the Mother of God by a unique privilege was transported body and soul into heaven at the end of her life on earth - was defined as a part of revealed truth by Pope Pius XII on 1 November 1950. 108 - May 1999 - Vatican launch of book highlights Pius XII's World War II role in saving Jews, Zenit News Service Throughout World War II Pius XII remained in the Vatican at the heart of occupied Rome seemingly separated from the action of the war. 109 - Apr 1999 - News: The Church Around the World The biggest single intake was eight new students for Melbournes Corpus Christi Seminary with seven for the Melbourne Archdiocese; Perths St Charles Seminary received five (according to The Record) and Brisbanes Pius XII Seminary five. 110 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World This chapel could well serve as a focal point for the fostering of Eucharistic adoration in the Ballarat Diocese in line with Pope Pius XIIs famous encyclical Mediator Dei (129-133). 111 - May 1997 - Brisbane pastoral ministers guidelines: 'Zooming along' to priestless parishes?, Michael Gilchrist Commenting on the absence for 1997 of even one new seminarian for the whole of Queensland at the Pius XII Seminary Banyo its Rector had said this was not a cause for alarm suggesting that some of the more than one hundred people studying theology at the Brisbane College of Theology (part of which occupies the seminary premises) might later proceed to the priesthood. 112 - Mar 1997 - Brisbane's Banyo seminary: zero recruits is 'not a cause for alarm', Michael Gilchrist Not one single new recruit entered the Pius XII Seminary Banyo for the 1997 academic year. 113 - Oct 1996 - Reflection: Mediator Dei: Recovering the 'vital impulse' of the liturgical movement, Bishop Basil Meeking (Christchurch, New Zealand) Pope Pius XIIs Mediator Dei after 50 years Sometimes people speak as though the Second Vatican Council were a complete break with the past as though it brought a different kind of Church into being. 114 - Sep 1996 - Fr Joseph Fessio in Australia: Principles of genuine liturgical reform, Michael Gilchrist The expression active participation said Fr Fessio had appeared in a number of earlier Church statements on liturgy ranging from Pope St Pius X in 1903 through Pope Pius XI and Pius XII. 115 - Mar 1996 - Examining the impact of Vatican II after 30 years, Fr John Parsons It is perhaps significant that from the time of Constantine to the time of Pius XII there was open country immediately behind the Vatican where now lies a great expanse of blocks of flats. 116 - Aug 1995 - Blessed Edith Stein (1891-1942): The most significant German woman this century, Mary O'Neill When the Dutch Hierarchy spoke out against Nazi persecution of the Jews in Holland in 1942 the German authorities retaliated by sending Jewish Catholics previously spared including Edith Stein to the gas chambers of Auschwitz a response often overlooked by those who criticise Pope Pius XII failing to be more publicly outspoken in condemning Hitlers final solution. 117 - Feb 1994 - Can liturgical 'reform' be reformed?, Simon Matthews Pius XIIs encyclical letter Mediator Dei is a clear and authoritative statement that the aims of the movement were central to the mind of the Church. 118 - Nov 1993 - Brompton Oratory, London: Keeping Catholic tradition alive, Simon Matthews Famous visitors have included John Henry Cardinal Newman (of the earlier Birmingham Oratory) Franz Liszt Monsignor Eugenio Pacelli (later Pius XII) and Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini (later Paul VI). 119 - Sep 1993 - Lincoln, Nebraska - how to fill seminaries with vocations, Fr T.I. Thorburn Brisbanes Pius XII Seminary Banyo according to The Future Times July 1993) held six seminarians. 120 - Oct 1992 - Reflection: Fatima - after seventy-five years, Bishop George Pell Pope Pius XII was a great champion of Fatima. 121 - Oct 1991 - France and the revival of traditional Catholicism, Dr Geoffrey Hull Without going into the thorny question of the status of the Society of St Pius X since June 1988 it is clear from the current epidemic of sedevacantism a belief that the Church has had no real Popes since Pius XII in France and elsewhere that a good number of Western traditionalists risk going the same way as the Byzantine schismatics of the Middle Ages. 122 - Nov 1990 - Can Australia's seminaries turn the tide?, Michael Gilchrist The Pius XII Seminary Banyo in Brisbane which serves the five Queensland dioceses and was built 50 years ago to accommodate 130 had an enrolment of 24 during this year (and full-time seminary staff of 123 down from 31 in 1989 and 53 in 1983. 123 - Nov 2011 - The Lion of Munster: Blessed Cardinal von Galen: a voice against tyranny, Babette Francis
