The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tim Luckhurst: I don't think that Pope Benedict XVI is a Nazi, but beatifying Pius XII is morally indefensible and encourages suspicion
What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fr. Lombardi, spokesman for the Holy See, has said that the Holy Father has not signed the decree of beatification of Pius XII. Città del Vaticano, 9 October (Apcom) The Pope hasn’t signed any decree for the beatification of Pope Pacelli. Fr. Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See’s Press Office clarified this in a note, commenting [...]
Credo,Catholic Journal (Ireland) (Free subscription) | yesterday
From www.catholic.com By Jimmy Akin The twentieth century was marked by genocides on an monstrous scale. One of the most terrible was the Holocaust wrought by Nazi Germany, which killed an estimated six million European Jews and almost as many other victims. During this dark time, the Catholic Church was shepherded by Pope Pius XII, who proved himself an untiring foe of the Nazis, determined to save...
Valle Adurni (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's a Youtube video showing scenes from the funeral of Pope Pius XII. What an extraordinary sight that procession is!
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oct. 9 marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII, one of the most controversial leaders of the era of World War II. Yet he is controversial not because of what he did, but because of what he didn't do.
Saint Mary Magdalen, Brighton, UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
Orbis Catholicus carries these pictures and this explanation: When you visit Israel's holocaust memorial museum, the Yad Vashem, this is what you're greeted with as seen above. Photos are not allowed to be taken, and nobody outside is meant to see these pics. When you complain you get a smirk from the museum custodians. Early this week the Chief Rabbi of Hyfer who had spoken at the Synod said he wouldn't...
Vultus Christi (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
I was in first grade when Pope Pius XII died. The news reached our parish school in the early afternoon. We were instructed to lower the window shades in every classroom as a gesture of mourning. For some reason,...
Saint Mary Magdalen, Brighton, UK (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Pope Benedict celebrate Mass on the anniversary of the "Angelic Pastor", in his homily he said, “The war highlighted the love he felt for his ‘beloved Rome’, love expressed in the great charitable work he undertook on behalf of the persecuted without distinction of religion, ethnicity, nationality or political leanings. When, once the city was occupied, he was repeatedly advised to leave the Vatican...
What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Has anyone seen the Catholic League’s ad on the op-ed page of the New York Times?
What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
NLM has some screen captures of the Holy Father’s Mass today in honor of Pius XII. They are kind of doing their own thing over there at NLM, but they sure post great liturgical photos! A real service and encouragement. I am very happy to have seen these screen captures and that someone took the [...]
Time (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
The road to sainthood for the Nazi-era pontiff had been put on hold, but on the holiest of Jewish holy days, the current Pope appears to renew the process
Credo,Catholic Journal (Ireland) (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Today marks the 50th Anniversary of the death of this great Pope . Pius PP. XII Eugenio Pacelli 2.III.1939 - 9.X.1958 Source
The New Liturgical Movement (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Today is the 50th anniversary of the death of the Servant of God Pope Pius XII, which saw Mass celebrated by the Pope today in the Basilica of St. Peter's. The NLM, having received a tip about some continuing developments in Benedict's liturgical program of continuity, wanted to cover this event live, and indeed, aside from the Mass and occasion itself, there was some things of liturgical interest....
Whispers in the Loggia (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a year chock-full of milestones of the modern papacy, as yesterday marked a half-century since the death of Pius XII, this month likewise sees the golden anniversary of the election of Bl John XXIII. The latter falls on the 28th, but most of the celebration of the still-beloved "Good Pope" -- once termed (only half-jokingly) a member of the Italian "Holy Trinity" along with God and Padre Pio --...
The Daily World Affairs Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
Reading between the lines, and thinking outside the box . . . T HE H OLY R OMAN... [ Sacrum Romanum / Heiliges Römisches ] [ Vaticams ] P12 and his Bible revolution For decades, the figure of Pope Pius XII has been at the center of some volatile polemics. The controversy has raged since the end of [WW2] over whether the Pope did and said enough in defense of the Jews and other victims of the Nazis....
