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    relations between Pope Pius XII and Judaism have long been controversial, especially those questions that surround Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust. Other...
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    Pope Pius XII (born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, Italian pronunciation: [euˈdʒɛːnjo maˈriːa dʒuˈzɛppe dʒoˈvanni paˈtʃɛlli]; 2 March 1876 –...
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    Archive and international diplomatic correspondence continue. Two Popes served through the Nazi period: Pope Pius XI (1922–1939) and Pope Pius XII (1939–1958)...
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  • The liturgical reforms of Pope Pius XII took place mostly between 1947 and 1958. On 20 November 1947, Pius XII issued the encyclical Mediator Dei. It included...
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  • memorial, has generally been critical of Pope Pius XII, the pope during The Holocaust. For decades, Pius XII has been nominated unsuccessfully for recognition...
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    The relations between Pope Pius XI and Judaism during his reign from 1922 to 1939 are generally regarded as good. The pontiff was particularly opposed...
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  • Pope Pius XII and Russia describes relations of the Vatican with the Soviet Union, Russia, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Eastern Catholic Churches...
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    The theology of Pope Pius XII is reflected in his forty-one encyclicals, as well as speeches and nearly 1000 messages, during his almost 20-year pontificate...
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  • Pope Pius XII's response to the Roman razzia (Italian for roundup), or mass deportation of Jews, on October 16, 1943, is a significant issue relating...
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  • "treacherous". In order to eliminate misunderstanding on this point, Pope Pius XII ordered in 1955 that, in Catholic liturgical books, the Latin word "perfidis"...
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    Seat 12 (category Pope Pius XII and World War II)
    history". Pope Pius XII and Judaism Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust Catholic Church and Nazi Germany Persecutions of the Catholic Church and Pius XII Religion...
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    Nazi-era Catholics Popes Pius XI (1922–1939) and Pius XII (1939–1958) led the Catholic Church during the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. Around a third...
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    and served in a number of posts, as nuncio in France and a delegate to Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. In a consistory on 12 January 1953 Pope Pius XII made...
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    Kronenberg, Pope and Devil: The Vatican's Archives and the Third Reich (2010), p. 283 Peter C. Kent, "A Tale of Two Popes: Pius XI, Pius XII and the Rome-Berlin...
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    Assisi Network (category Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust)
    library. Catholic resistance to Nazism Italian Resistance Pope Pius XII Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust Gilbert, Martin (2002). The Righteous - The Unsung...
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  • by Pope Pius XI, but drafted by the future Pope Pius XII and read from the pulpits of all German Catholic churches, it condemned Nazi ideology and has...
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  • Pave the Way Foundation (category Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust)
    contributor to First Things and compiler of the massive bibliography of work on Pius XII in The Pius War: Responses to the Critics of Pius XII, the late Dan Kurzman...
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    Geneva and Fribourg in Switzerland. The society is named after Pope Pius X, whose anti-Modernist stance it stresses, retaining the Tridentine Mass and pre-Vatican...
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  • Mystici Corporis Christi (category Encyclicals of Pope Pius XII)
    Corporis Christi (The Mystical Body of Christ) is an encyclical issued by Pope Pius XII on 29 June 1943 during World War II. Its main topic is the Catholic...
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  • where they served. In 1939 Pope Pius XII, within weeks of his coronation, radically reverted the 250-year-old Vatican policy and permitted the veneration...
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    seen by Israel and Jews around the world as of religious and historical consequence. These issues include the beatification of Pope Pius XII, the pardoning...
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    Pope Pius XII (r. 1939–1958) created 56 cardinals in two consistories. On both occasions Pius tried to bring the membership of the College of Cardinals...
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  • penalty and many rescuers and would-be rescuers were killed including St Maximilian Kolb In the prelude to the Holocaust, Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII preached...
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  • Conversion of Jews to Catholicism during the Holocaust (category Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust)
    Holocaust is one of the most controversial aspects of the record of Pope Pius XII during The Holocaust. According to John Morley, who wrote about Vatican...
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    Israel Zolli (category Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust)
    Father Augustin Bea, confessor of Pope Pius XII. Zolli chose to be christened "Eugenio Maria" in homage to Pope Pius XII, who was born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe...
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    Cesare Orsenigo (category Nazi Germany and Catholicism)
    diplomatic link between Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII and the Nazi regime, meeting several times with Adolf Hitler directly and frequently with other high-ranking...
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  • 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 US President...
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    Pope Pius IX (Italian: Pio IX, Pio Nono; born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846...
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    Summi Pontificatus (category Encyclicals of Pope Pius XII)
    Pope Pius XII published on 20 October 1939. The encyclical is subtitled "on the unity of human society". It was the first encyclical of Pius XII and was...
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    president, and its meetings were held at the Capuchin College in Rome. Two Popes served through the Nazi period: Pope Pius XI (1922–1939) and Pope Pius XII (1939–1958)...
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