So it came as a surprise when Pope Pius
XII declared his approval in 1951 of a brand new cosmological theory — the Big Bang.
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)»
She focuses on the period from 200 to 1336, the year Pope Benedict
XII declared that souls experience beatific vision with the resurrection yet to come.
In 1829 Leo
XII declared, «Whoever allows himself to be vaccinated ceases to be a child of God.
Not exact matches
Pope Pius
XII, in an important allocution to medical experts,
declared that it was reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned of the benefit of life in expiation of their crimes.
Dogmas like the Immaculate Conception are «truth [s] revealed by God and contained in that divine deposit which Christ has delivered to his Spouse,» as Pope Pius
XII said in 1950 in Munificentissimus Deus, which
declared Mary's Assumption into Heaven a dogma.
Hence, when the opposition has reached its height, and Jesus stands in prospect of death, He can
declare, «Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast out» (
xii.
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.
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.
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.
A Contracting State may, at the time of ratification, acceptance, approval of, or accession to this Protocol,
declare that it will apply any one or more of Articles VIII,
XII and XIII of this Protocol.