Sentences with phrase «xii does»

Released late in the PlayStation 2's lifespan, Final Fantasy XII doesn't have quite the same legacy as, say, Final Fantasy X, and didn't seem to reach as many players as the better - known games in the series.

After he became Pope, Pius XII did everything in his power to prevent the war from breaking out — issuing appeal after appeal, warning the mass destruction that would ensue — but the forces of evil would not listen, and war commenced.

The question is left open and even Pius XII did not absolutely rule it out.

In Humane Generis Pius XII did indeed speak very strongly in favour of monogenism, saying «it is in no way evident» how any other view could be reconciled with defined teaching about Original Sin.

Intelligence Squared will host the debate on November 14 at the Royal Institution in London, where participants will take up the motion «Hitler's Pope: Pius XII did....

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

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

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».

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.

This wouldn't necessarily be an awful thing, except for two main points: Firstly, the AI is worse than that of XII; and secondly — XII didn't offer sod all to do outside of its combat.

But you're right, XII did have the best writing, and XIII DOES get away with a lot of melodrama.

Not sure why Mistwalker thought that this was a logical next step for the series, but hey, Final Fantasy XII did it, so why the fuck not?

While Final Fantasy XV pulls this off better than Final Fantasy XII did, it doesn't quite give you enough information to follow these events cohesively.

Not exact matches

The chief Rabbi of wartime Rome had been sheltered by Jesuits, and he later paid eloquent and generous tribute to Pius XII and his collaborators for their rescue efforts, as did Dr. Raffael Contoni, head of Italy's wartime Jewish Assistance Committee and later president of the union of Italian Jewish communities.

All of you «ignorant» Catholics — you have it all wrong when you say the Catholic Church does not believe in contraception - they do in fact — the Vatican approved it in 1951 — Pope Pius XII announced that the Church will sanction the use of the rhythm method as a natural form of birth control.

His Humble Servant ends with Pius XII's death in 1958, and so doesn't cover Mother's subsequent activities: her productive time at the Pontifical North American College in Rome (1959 - 1969), and her highly praised leadership of the «Casa Pastor Angelicus,» a residence for the elderly, until her death in 1983.

In her memoirs Mother Pascalina does not dignify her detractors by responding, instead focusing on the privilege of serving Pius XII for over forty years.

As Pius XII brings out St Thomas» philosophical synthesis does go significantly beyond such essentialism balancing it with a much needed existentialist emphasis upon «dynamic», even relational, being.

Pius XII, in a further clarification of the standard argument, holds that when the State, acting by its ministerial power, uses the death penalty, it does not exercise dominion over human life but only recognizes that the criminal, by a kind of moral suicide, has deprived himself of the right to life.

While he does engage some of the criticisms of Pius XII — such as those made by the Polish government - in - exile in London — he tends to explain them away, always giving Pius the benefit of the doubt.

• The subject of Pius XII and what he should or should not have done will be with us for a while.

Benedict also put his predecessor, Pius XII, on the path to sainthood, further antagonizing many Jews, who believe the World War II - era pope did little to save Jews from Hitler.

A prince of the Church with the courage to abandon the shell of the institution and fight on principle, I thought, would have done better than Pius XII.

Certainly, Pius XII is not above or beyond criticism regarding what he could or could not have done during the war.

I do recognize, as you say, that Pius XII delivered many fine speeches and radio addresses on social ethics.

We need not recall here the history of what led up to the declaration of Humani Generis (which is doctrinal in character, even if it does not constitute a dogmatic definition), starting with the pronouncement of the local synod at Cologne in 1860 rejecting evolution in any form, the censure passed on the works of theologians favourable to evolution, such as M. D. Leroy (1895) and P. Zahm (1899), the decree of the Biblical Commission in 1909, the tacit toleration of works favourable to evolution by theologians such as Ruschkamp (1935), Messenger (1931), Perier (1938), down to Pius XII's Allocution to the Papal Academy of Sciences in 1941.

[1] John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae (Washington, D.C.: United States Catholic Conference, 1995), 65: AAS 87 (1995) 476, recalls that «Pius XII affirmed that it is licit to relieve pain by narcotics even when the result is decreased consciousness and a shortening of life, «if no other means exist, and if, in the given circumstances, this does not prevent the carrying out of other religious and moral duties.»

As long as human beings are capable of moral judgment we will be sorting through what people, including Pius XII, could have done and should have done in a time when the lights of decency were largely extinguished.

Felicity O'Brien is among those who are rightly disturbed by the injustice done Pius XII and, more inclusively, the Catholic Church in many accounts of the Holocaust.

Dr. O'Brien concludes that the «unbridled criticism» of Pius XII not only does a disservice to him «but also can be said to cast at best a shadow, at worst a slur, on the integrity of those Jews — leaders and ordinary people — who said thank you to him.

Neuhaus» position can somehow be reconciled with Pius XII's, why does it feel like one is reading two entirely different positions?

If one goes to the center's website, there are no less than four articles or interviews assailing Pius XII (one of which combines criticism of Pius with criticism of Palatucci), repeating all the standard errors about the wartime pontiff» e.g., that he was «silent» or indifferent during the Holocaust and did little or nothing to protect Europe's Jews during their darkest hour.

At a time when leading scholars in Germany, Italy, Britain, and North America have done so much to clear the good name of Pius XII, honoring his life - saving efforts, it is distressing to find such outdated and discredited allegations being promoted by the Levi Center.

Hence it is possible to do what Pope Pius XII urged in his encyclical Divino Afflatu: to read history, where it is present, as history although written of course in the fashion thought right at the time; and to recognize and study poetry as poetry, legend as legend, myth as myth, moral teaching as moral teaching.

Ultimately, we don't know whether Pius XII believed that he was actually doing the best he could to help the victims of Nazism.

We may all wish that Pius XII had spoken out forcefully against the genocide and rallied Europe's Catholics behind him; but we simply don't know whether that would have stopped the Nazis.

But if Pius XII had such detailed knowledge of these atrocities, it's difficult to believe he didn't know that Jews were being hidden in convents and monasteries.

He concludes with Pope Pius XII that, although they do not offer a specific date, there is a growing sense among the popes that «there are numerous signs that [Christ's] return is not far off» (Pius XII, Urbi et Orbi, 1957).

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.

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.

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)»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It is much easier for Herman to vault Texas to the cream of the Big XII — which if he does — Texas gets into the Football playoff with prune juice regularity.

[xii] Additionally, a YouTube clip of a military commander in Sinjar during the crisis said that those refugees on Sinjar who do not want to convert can die of thirst on the mountain.

When they were treated with the Factor XII suppressors, however, their success in getting out of the maze increased significantly, although it didn't reach the levels of healthy mice.