Sentences with phrase «xii for»

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

Felicity O'Brien, an historian at King's College, London, recently visited the museum and got to thinking about the many attacks of the past thirty years on Pius XII for his alleged indifference to the plight of the Jews under Hitler.

John Cornwall indicts Pope Pius XII for aiding and abetting the Nazis...

John Cornwall indicts Pope Pius XII for aiding and abetting the Nazis in order to consolidate his power over the Catholic Church.

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.

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According to Annie Mattson, a literature researcher at Uppsala University, Charles XII acquired a taste for köfte meatballs when he spent six years in exile in Turkey, and brought the recipe for the dish back to Sweden in 1714.

He was friends with Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican secretary of state responsible for negotiating the concordat and the future Pius XII.

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.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

Several weeks before Bonhoeffer arrived in Ettal, as war raged across Europe, Pope Pius XII had issued a Motu Proprio calling for a «crusade of prayer,» inviting Catholics around the globe to join in a prayer for world peace.

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.

Pius XII relied upon her for a variety of deeds — arranging private visits, secretarial work, special requests and charitable activities — but not everyone was pleased with her growing influence, nor her strong personality.

A book called Disinformation, co-written by General Pacepa and the American professor of law Ronald Rychlak (best known for his book Hitler, the War and the Pope, a well - researched defence of Pius XII's record during the Second World War), which spells out these revelations at greater length, is «dubious at best» — or at least, the bits written by Pacepa are: the reviewer NCR admits that «what Rychlak contributes, drawn from his earlier work on Pope Pius, appears solid».

In 1963, General Ivan Agayants, the famous chief of the KGB's disinformation department, told us that «Seat - 12» [the code name for the campaign] had materialised into a powerful play attacking Pope Pius XII, entitled The Deputy, an oblique reference to the pope as Christ's representative on earth.

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When, for example, at first in the 19th century down to Pius XII the Church adopted a very reserved attitude to any inclusion of the human bios in the idea of evolution, that was motivated, and rightly so, by a fundamental conception of the nature of man which for good reasons required to be defended.

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

How many Catholics realize that Pope Pius XII's 1950 encyclical, Humani generis, indicates that duscussion of biological evolution is compatible with Christian faith (# 36)-- as long as God's intervention is recognized as necessary for creating the human soul.

Pius XII was an active participant: transmitting information, encouraging resistance, even supporting plots for assassination.

It has been argued that Pius XII was under pressure to oppose Roosevelt's supply of arms to the Soviets through the American lend - lease scheme for Canada and Great Britain.

(For the Sake of Heaven, 2nd Edition [New York: Harpers and Brothers, 1953], Foreward, p. xii f. [In Gog und Magog, the German original, this is a postlude.]-RRB-

Ultimately, Pius XII chose not to sacrifice the Church's ongoing care for its flock in a desperate gamble of this kind.

While it would not have occurred to the editors to include Catholics in church unity schemes and pictures, they showed respect for Popes Pius XI and XII, wished Catholic citizens well, and often praised the church's achievements.

William Doino Jr. writes for Inside the Vatican and is a contributor to The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII.

Certainly Catholic Christianity has had the ability to engage the issue with seriousness, with respect for the integrity of science, and with fidelity to the biblical narrative and Tradition of the Church, as evidenced by the efforts of Pope Pius XII (Humani Generis, 1950) and Pope John Paul II [Address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, October 22, 1996).

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He also was among the first major historians to repudiate the groundless attacks against Pius XII, and was so impressed with the growing evidence in Pius's favor, that Gilbert concluded, «far from deserving obloquy,» the Pope «should be a candidate for Yad Vashem's order of «Righteous Gentiles.

As the Nazi's raised hell in the Holocaust in Europe in the 1930s and early 40s, his holiness Pius XII stood silently by... Fast forward to the epidemic of priestly pedophilia, covered up and stone - walled for decades by the Holy See.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Category xii, for instance, explains the two species of prehension as positive, absorbing antecedent data, and negative, eliminating incompatible data with the present actual occasion.

Earlier ecclesiastical pronouncements on the matter, before Plus XII's Allocution (Denzinger 2285) and the Encyclical Humani Generis, are therefore superseded, or must and can be interpreted in this sense, the Reply of the Biblical Commission of 1909 (Denzinger 2123), for example.

In Roman Catholicism, for example, one goes from the official condemnation of the «modernists» in an early part of this century to what might be appropriately described as the dominant position today, found in Pope Pius XII's Human generis (1950), which, concerning the relation between evolution and creation, accepts evolution yet insists on the special, «second» creation of the human soul.

Zuccotti, it should be noted, falsely contrasts the alleged inaction of Pius XII with the work of Father Marie Benoît, the French Capuchin monk who coordinated the provision of food, shelter, and new identities for thousands of French and Italian Jews.

He notes, for example, that in Under His Very Windows she ignores the important and well - known memoir Christian Resistance to Anti-Semitism by the French Jesuit theologian, priest - rescuer, and defender of Pius XII, Henri de Lubac.

Today, more than fifty years after the Holocaust, many of us need to be reminded that Pope Pius XII saved more Jewish lives than any other person, including Raoul Wallenberg and Oskar Schindler» men who are often, and rightly, treated as heroes for their efforts.

One had been prepared by the Holy Office (now the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith); it strung together various papal statements on the issue without even mentioning Pius XII's endorsement of natural family planning.

Pius XII made a tactical decision because he thought Pius XI's approach was too brutal — and because his fondness for Germany led him to consider that Hitler might eventually become more democratic.

His most recent articles for «On the Square» were Pius XII and the Distorting Ellipsis and Pope Benedict Confounds His Critics.

Both Corriere, and the Times tried to inappropriately drag Pius XII into the Palatucci story, failing to mention that to the extent he is involved, it speaks entirely in his favor: Pius XII ordered that money, specifically intended for persecuted Jews, be sent to Palatucci's uncle, the wartime Bishop of Campagna, who was in contact with his nephew, and assisting Jews imprisoned by the fascists.

Because of their leading role in the world — first in winning the war, then in rebuilding the peace — Americans were highly regarded, and Pope Pius XII sent them a letter, expressing his admiration and expectations: «The American people,» he began, «have a genius for splendid and unselfish action, and into the hands of America, God has placed the destinies of afflicted humanity.»

Cornwell is not alone either for one is reminded of the exaggerated claim made by former editor of the Catholic Herald Gerard Noel, in his book «Pius XII the Hound of Hitler» which also claims that Archbishop Pacelli, the then Apostolic Nuncio in Munich 1919, gave «a considerable sum of Church funds» to a «young man (who) had grave need of funds for his fledgling political party.»

At the end of the Second World War, when the Nuremberg prosecutors were gathering evidence for the upcoming trials, one of the many people they turned to for assistance was Pope Pius XII.

Like most European church leaders at the time, Pius XII worried about the threat of communism and viewed himself as a mediator for peace.

This became most evident with his 2000 book Papal Sin, one of several recent books from liberal Catholics trying to argue for their brand of Catholicism by the simple (if vulgar) expedient of beating up on the reputation of Pius 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.