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unusual facts about Pius XII


Pius XII, The Holocaust, and the Cold War

Pius XII, The Holocaust, and the Cold War is a 2008 book by historian Michael Phayer which makes use of documents that had been released under Bill Clinton's 1997 executive order declassifying wartime and postwar documents.


Benedicamus Domino

During the liturgical reforms of Pope Pius XII (1938–1958) and Pope John XXIII (1958–1963) the use of the Benedicamus Domino was much restricted.

Giovanni Ferrofino

During the Second World War, according to Gary Krupp of the Pave the Way Foundation, he personally acted on the direct orders of Pius XII twice a year to obtain visas for Jews arriving from Portugal to the Dominican Republic.

J. Frank Norris

In September 1947, while on a tour of Europe, Norris secured an audience with Pope Pius XII and declared that the pope was "the last Gibraltar in Europe against Communism."

Josef Wirmer

Whether, as some believe, he tried to get the then Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII, to intervene personally cannot be proved by any sources from that time.

Joseph L. Lichten

In 1963, shortly after the initial production of Rolf Hochhuth's play, The Deputy, and while serving as director of the International Affairs Department for the ADL, he wrote a monograph defending the actions of Pope Pius XII during the Second World War.

Mirae Caritatis

Leo XIII's encyclical has been subsequently cited by Popes Pius XII and Paul VI in their own teaching documents, respectively Mediator Dei and Mysterium fidei.

Papal coronation

Popes Pius IX, Pius XII, John XXIII, and Paul VI all were crowned in public on the balcony of the basilica, facing crowds assembled below in St. Peter's Square.

Rubén Isaza Restrepo

He was, at the time, the youngest bishop in Colombia since he was Auxiliary Bishop of Cartagena, who began to lead the diocese February 20, 1955 at the consecration of His Excellence Paolo Bertoli, an ambassador of His Holiness Pius XII.

Supreme Order of Christ

Controversially Popes Pius XII and John XXIII had refused to award the honour to his predecessor, Seán T. O'Kelly, to the fury of the Irish government.


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Actes et documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre Mondiale

The remainder of the documents from Pius XII's papacy may not be released for years; Bishop Sergio Pagano, the prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives announced in June 2009 that five or six years additional of preparation would be necessary to organize the papers, after which the decision to make further documents available to researchers will be the pope's.

Alfredo Ottaviani

At the Vatican they encountered Monsignor Alphonso Carinci and Cardinal Augustin Bea, Pope Pius XII's confessor, who advised presenting the typed manuscript directly to Pope Pius XII, through a recommended intermediary, which was accomplished in 1947.

Banyo, Queensland

The Australian Catholic University chose to establish its Brisbane campus on the site of the former Pius XII Seminary, which boosted the housing market within Banyo.

Bernard Griffin

Griffin was created Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio by Pius XII in the consistory of 18 February 1946.

David G. Dalin

The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis (2005)

Deiparae Virginis Mariae

Following the example of Pope Pius IX, who with his encyclical Ubi Primum canvassed Catholic bishops before proclaiming the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, Pius XII asks all bishops for their opinion.

Emergency baptism

The Jewish orphans controversy is a legal dispute that occurred after the Second World War when the Holy See under Pope Pius XII issued instructions that Catholic institutions and families should keep baptized Jewish children in their ranks after they had been rescued from a likely deportation to Auschwitz.

Hereditary officers of the Roman Curia

This position had been shared jointly by the Princes Orsini and Colonna, but the former was deprived by Pius XII after obtaining a divorce and the title was conferred upon Prince Torlonia, Prince of Fucino, Canino and Musignano of the Torlonia Family.

José María Caro Rodríguez

He served as Archbishop of Santiago from 1939 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII.

Kazimierz Papée

Dr. Dariusz Libionka's analysis of Papée's attempts to get Pius XII to act or speak out against the Holocaust in Poland is bluntly titled "Against a Brick Wall".

Pacelli

Francesco Pacelli (1872–1935), Vatican lawyer, elder brother of Pius XII

Ernesto Pacelli (d. 1925), Vatican financial adviser, cousin of Pius XII

Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi

After the death of Pius XII, Galeazzi-Lisi gave an article and photographs of the dead Pope to a French magazine, Paris Match, and to an Italian magazine.

Sacri

Anni Sacri (March 12, 1950),is an encyclical of Pope Pius XII issued on the twelfth anniversary of his coronation.

Summi

Summi Maeroris is one of several peace encyclicals of Pope Pius XII focusing in particular on the dangers to peace during the Holy Year.

Summi Pontificatus is an encyclical of Pope Pius XII published on October 20, 1939.

The Myth of Hitler's Pope

The Myth of Hitler's Pope: How Pope Pius XII Rescued Jews from the Nazis is a book written by American historian and Rabbi David G. Dalin and published in 2005 by Regnery Publishing.

Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy

According to a New York Times book review by Christopher Duggan of Reading University, the book is well researched, though Zuccotti follows the anti-Pius XII tone of Hitler's Pope by John Cornwell, and builds a case for the Pope having been anti-Semitic at heart - a view which, according to Duggan, available evidence "does not warrant".

Vatican Radio

Following a December 1939 report from Cardinal August Hlond of Poznań detailing the oppression of the Catholic Church in Poland, Pope Pius XII decided, among other measures, to use Vatican Radio to provide "information regarding the condition of the church in Poland."