Sentences with phrase «pius xii»

There have been six Roman Catholic Popes during The Queen's reign (Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI).

How Ottley came to meet Pius XII, and why he wrote about him so admiringly, is an inspiring story that deserves to be better known.

Eventually, as Wistrich reports, the Hungarian government «did buckle to pressure from the Western Allies, Pope Pius XII, the king of Sweden, and other dignitaries» and stopped the deportations.

The twentieth - century liturgical movement had included a revival of interest in the symbolic value of the Mass ceremonial and this found striking endorsement, specifically in relation to the consecration ritual, in Pius XII's 1947 encyclical Mediator Dei:

HUMANI GENERIS (Concerning Some False Opinions Threatening to Undermine the Foundations of Catholic Doctrine) Pope Pius XII Encyclical Promulgated on 12 August 1950 http://www.ewtn.com/library/encyc/p12human.htm

A Catholic principle becomes ever clearer at this time, and Pius XII expressed it in these words: «Just as the substantial Word of God became like men in every respect except sin, so too the words of God, expressed in human languages, became like human language in every respect except error.»

Since the teaching of Pius XII on sacramental signification clearly derives from St Thomas (S.T. III, q. 76, a2, ad 1, q. 78 a. 3, ad.1), recalling Catholics to Mediator Dei is once again to underline the Church's debt to St Thomas for her understanding of the issue.

She did not recognise the latter until she saw a picture of Pius XII: «That's him!»

He even borrows (with acknowledgment) Pius XII's phrase «memorialis demonstratio» for his reiteration of the traditional teaching on the basis of the identity of the Mass with the sacrifice of the Cross.

Pope Pius XII did not demand that people rise up in violence to stop the Nazis, yet many regard him as a hero because he and the Church were able to save 800,000 Jews through civil disobedience and cultural resistance.

In his encyclical Humani Generis (1950), Pope Pius XII has already affirmed that there is no conflict between evolution and the doctrine of the faith regarding man and his vocation, provided that we do not lose sight of certain fixed points.

It is this teaching of St Thomas Aquinas and Pope Pius XII which Paul McPartlan dismisses as «pious nonsense»: see note 7 above.

[7] Mediator Dei attempted to reverse this trend, but its teaching was eclipsed by the Second Vatican Council's Sacrosanctum Concilium, which, remarkably, contains not a single reference to Pius XII's encyclical of just 16 years before.

Contrast this with the genuine church teaching of Pius XII: «This anti-Christian hedonism... promotes the desire to render always more intense thepleasure in the preparation and actualisation of the conjugal union, as if in matrimonial relations the whole moral law could be reduced to the regular accomplishment of the act itself, and as if all the rest, in whatever manner done, remains justified by the effusion of mutual affection, sanctified by the sacrament of marriage...» [11] In fact, it would be hard to distinguish Popcak's «One Rule for Infallible Lovers» from the kind of reduction described by the Pope.

Finally it should also be noted that Pius XII, as quoted, lavished praise on «the method of Aquinas» which one can legitimately distinguish from the content of Aquinas» thought, and argued that it was «most effective... for safeguarding the foundation of the faith».

Pope vs. Hitler opens by asking whether Pius XII really was «Hitler's Pope,» as John Cornwell notoriously alleged, or rather, as Riebling's book maintains, Hitler's implacable enemy.

To be true to the Incarnational Principle expressed by Pius XII we must seek to understand the meaning of the texts in their historical, cultural context.

Pius XII left the question open.

Have dissenters on these matters really, in the words of Pius IX, «suffered shipwreck in faith» or, as Pius XII put it, «certainly abandoned divine and Catholic faith»?

Pius XII's address to which I referred (distributed in English translation on December 15, 1953) did not go further than the traditional position allows, but the timing of it suggests that he was in fact rebuking the extreme position advanced by Cardinal Ottaviani.

Elsewhere Pius XII made a very dear place for democracy.

My admission was that Pius XII's silence can be explained by not wanting further reprisals on Jews and Christians throughout the world, which Hitler had a tendancy to do.

Not surprisingly, our strongest objections arose in regard to the Immaculate Conception, the belief that Mary was preserved by God from original sin, and the Assumption, the belief that her body was taken into heaven at the end of her earthly life, the first declared by Pope Pius IX in his 1854 Ineffabilis Deus and the second by Pope Pius XII in 1950 in Munificentissimus Deus.

Comment on this seems unnecessary in view of Pius XII's pronouncement to the Italian jurists.

Pope Pius XII declared that «the teaching authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions... take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter --[but] the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God» (Pius XII, Humani Generis 36)»

Pope Pius XII gave tacit approval to the Third Reich's policies by adopting a «neutral» stance.

And the «vague» papal pronouncement that Mr. Lowell seems to doubt was ever made was, in fact, a major — some think historic — allocution, delivered in 1953 to an audience of Italian jurists, in which Pope Pius XII laid down the principle that «in the interest of a higher and broader good, it is justifiable not to impede error by state laws and coercive measures.»

As Rabbi David Dalin, for example, points out: «The technique for recent attacks on Pius XII is simple.

That pre-eminence can be sensed in the words used by Pius XII on the occasion of the definition of the Assumption of Our Lady «By the authority of Our Lord Jesus Christ, by the authority of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul and by our own authority do pronounce, declare and define as a divinely revealed dogma...» It is an awesome power, linking the current successor of St. Peter to the Lord who taught as one having authority, and not as their scribes and Pharisees (Matt.

Even those who condemn Pope Pius XII for his alleged silence over Nazi atrocities increasingly accept that he was not «Hitler's Pope.»

A new generation of Biblical scholars has made full use of the freedom opened up by Pius XII.

FAITH: In 1952 Pius XII did indeed write in Humanae Generis that the Church is not closed to «the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter», but that it «obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God».

It was created by Pope Pius XII.

But to this mix we should of course also add things that indicated the way ahead: Pius XII's Divino Afante Spiritu and Mystici Corporis, the work of German - speaking theologians von Balthasar and (newly emerging) Ratzinger, plus the French Jean Daniélou and Henri de Lubac.

Scott Hahn has founded a study centre specifcally to «promote biblical literacy for Catholic lay people and biblical fuency for Catholic scholars and clergy» — a fruit of Pius XII's Divino Afante Spiritu and Vatican II's Dei Verbum.

When Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, Pope Pius XI declared wars of conquest to be unjust, and during the Second World War Pope Pius XII worked for peace and tried to protect the suffering.

Consider the extraordinary phenomenon of the devastation during the Sixties and Seventies of the reputation of one of the great popes of the last century, Pius XII, in which Cornwell's book Hitler's Pope played a prominent part.

In a booklet published during Vatican II, Joseph Ratzinger wrote that the notion of the Mystical Body, as expounded in Pius XII's encyclical of 1943, «made it all but impossible to give any status to Christians separated from Rome» and that it «easily led to a false identification of the Church with Christ.»

Which is, of course, one of the points we have to keep making about Pius XII, who had to make excruciating decisions about what to say and what not to say, because people would suffer and die if he said the wrong thing, but who receives from his critics no such understanding as Roosevelt receives here.

If Noonan was moved in middle age to discover her faith through John Paul II, and tingled when this most mobile of popes appeared on our shores, so did I admire Pius XII, who modeled perfectly the «Spiritual Father» as Unmoved Mover by staying put.

Pope Pius XII clearly taught that when efforts to sustain life are extraordinary (or become excessively burdensome to the patient or others) there is no moral obligation to employ them or continue them.

«During the discussion about the possible beatification / canonization of Pope Pius XII the major critique of Pius has been his failure to speak out against the Nazi Holocaust with sufficient specificity.

Those archives revealed that Stein's plea was answered ¯ in a sympathetic reply by none other than Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (the future Pius XII), then Pius XI's secretary of state.

McDonnell's purpose is not to «excuse» what Pius XII did or did not do, but to try to understand.

The Vatican Declaration on Euthanasia (1980) enlarged on the teaching of Pius XII and the Church's moral tradition.

Carroll's treatment of Pius XII is particularly atrocious: Every discredited allegation against the pope ¯ from his alleged silence to his supposed failure to intervene against the Nazi roundup of Rome's Jews ¯ is repeated without qualification.

All the instances are heartbreaking, especially Pius XII's restraint as the Nazis were brutally crushing the Church in Poland.

That's the opening paragraph of an article that throws new light, as unlikely as that may seem, on the dispute over Pius XII and the Holocaust.

I would certainly agree, as Eric Voegelin put it in his lectures on Hitler and the Germans, that Aquinas» understanding of the corpus mysticum was subsequently, tragically, overshadowed by a «ghettoizing» conception of the Church among both Catholics and Protestants and that Pius XII's Mystici Corporis Christi represents «the most severe contraction of the membership of the Church that it had ever received.»

Pius XII did welcome prophetic protest in encouraging local bishops in Germany to speak out.