Pius XII contributed to his predecessor's 1937 anti-Nazi encyclical and in his own first encyclical repeated Paul's assertion of the fundamental equality of Jews and Gentiles. (faith.org.uk)
If first encyclicals set the tone for a new papacy, then this one has begun quitebrilliantly.» (faith.org.uk)
It has welcomed, naturally enough, the warmth and the poetry of Deus est Caritas; but it is now hoping that the Pope's first encyclical signals that there will be no more uncomfortable demands for the renunciation of relativist moral values, indeed, that thePope will now bask in his new popularity and become a mellow and liberal guru to the modern world, that his life story will be rather like that of Pius IX but in reverse. (faith.org.uk)