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by bcadmin | Oct 15, 2022 | Books, Catholic University of America Press, Communism, Hungary, Margit Balogh, Naziism, News, Pope Pius XII, Venerable József Cardinal Mindszenty, “Victim of History” | 0 |
Many voices in the contemporary Church call for Christians to “accompany” and “dialogue” with those opposed to the Gospel message and ethos. All too often, this becomes accommodation with the spirit of the times. This […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | 2022, Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, Columns, George J. Marlin's "Pius XII: The Pope Who Defied Hitler", Golda Meir, Jewish historian Pinchas Lapide, Leonard Bernstein, News, Pacelli wrote Pius XI's Mit brennender Sorge, Pius XII and the Jews, Pius XII saved live, Pope Pius XII, Rome’s chief rabbi Israel Zolli, The Pope and the Holocaust: Pius XII and the Vatican Secret Archives by Michael Hesemann, The Pope at War The Secret History of Pius XII Mussolini and Hitler by David I. Kertzer | 0 |
At the end of the Second World War, Pope Pius XII was universally acclaimed for his courageous leadership. The Jewish…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 3, 2022 | Dobbs, Drag Queens, Florida, Gender ideology, Governor DeSantis, Jane's Revenge, News, Pope Francis, Pope Pius XII, Roe v. Wade, The Dispatch, TLM, Traditional Latin Mass | 0 |
Pius XII and the Jews – “The opening of the archives on the pontificate of Pope Pius XII has launched a new season of studies that will hopefully prove fruitful and stimulating.” On the already-public […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 15, 2022 | Featured, News, Pope Pius XII | 0 |
Two substantial new historical studies of Pope Pius XII’s response to the Jewish Holocaust reach sharply opposed conclusions. Not surprisingly, it’s the negative criticism of Pius rather than the documented defense that’s getting attention, including puff-piece interviews by the New York Times and the Associated Press. Brown University historian David Kertzer in The Pope at […]
by bcadmin | Jul 14, 2022 | David Kertzer, Hitler, Holocaust, Jews, Michael Hesemann, News, Pope Pius XII, The Dispatch | 0 |
Two substantial new historical studies of Pope Pius XII’s response to the Jewish Holocaust reach sharply opposed conclusions. Not surprisingly, it’s the negative criticism of Pius rather than the documented defense that’s getting attention, including […
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 23, 2022 | Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Associated Press, Catholic-Jewish relations, Church History, Holocaust, lead, News, Pope Pius XII, Vatican, World War II | 0 |
Pope Francis has ordered the online publication of 170 volumes of its Jewish files from the recently opened Pope Pius XII archives, the Vatican announced Thursday, amid renewed debate about the legacy of its World War II-era pope.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 18, 2022 | 1917, American Catholicism, Columns, Communism, Fatima, Features, Memorial Day, News, Our Lady of Fatima, Pope Benedict XV, Pope Pius XII, Russia, Russian Revolution, Spanish War, The Past Present, Una M. Cadegan | 0 |
The month of May presents American Catholics with mixed martial messages. On May 12, we celebrated the Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Roman soldiers who left the army after their conversion to Christianity and ultimately gave […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 30, 2022 | Blessed Klymentiy Sheptytsky, Blessed Mykola Tsehelskyi, Blessed Vitaliy Vladimir Bayrak, May Day, News, Pope Pius XII, Saint Joseph the Worker, Saints, socialism, The Dispatch, Ukraine | 0 |
Are there any saintly Catholics who lived under Communist governments, died as martyrs, and are remembered by the Church during the month of May? Unfortunately, there is no shortage of blesseds who fit that description. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 18, 2022 | Featured, Marian apparitions, Mary, News, Pope Pius XII, Sophia Excerpts, The Blessed Virgin Mary | 0 |
The Virgin Mary appeared to a would-be papal assassin — an encounter that changed his life. This unexpected meeting with the Mother of God and the special grace he received freed him from the noose of evil and gave him strength to live according to divine teaching. In 1937, Luigina Sinapi had an extraordinary vision. The Holy […]
by bcadmin | Nov 6, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Jesuits, News, Papal meetings, Pope Francis, Pope Pius XII, President Joe Biden | 0 |
A priest told a story about how a rarely seen object from their sacristy, possibly worn by a previous pope, had days earlier ended up in the hands of Pope Francis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 18, 2021 | Aukus, Australia, China, Europe, lead, Nato, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Pope Pius XII, Prime Minister Mario Draghi, United States | 0 |
Vatican thinkers, especially those from traditionally Catholic cultures such as Italy and the Iberian peninsula, tend to see the Anglo-Saxon realm as dominated by a sort of Calvinistic Protestant psychology.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2021 | Assumption, Between the Sundays, Blessed Mother, dogma, Dormition, Eugenio Pacelli, Fatima, Featured, human dignity, Living the Faith, Marian apparition, Mary, News, Our Lady of Fatima, Pope Pius XII, resurrection of the body, rosary | 0 |
“The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed extraordinary attacks on the truth that underlies this dogma…” Pope Pius XII declared in 1950, “The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course o…
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