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  Pope Pius X
On the other hand, as the dioceses of Central and of Southern Italy were so small that their respective seminaries could not prosper, Pius X established the regional seminary which is common to the sees of a given region; and, as a consequence, many small, deficient seminaries were closed.
Pius X reverted to this vital subject on other occasions, especially in those Encyclicals that were written in commemoration of St. Anselm (21 April, 1909) and of St. Charles Borromeo (23 June, 1910), in the latter of which Reformist Modernism was especially condemned.
The desire of Pius X is for the economical work to be avowedly Catholic, as he expressed it in a memorable letter to Count Medolago-Albani.
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 Pope Pius IX
On the death of Pope Gregory XVI (June 1, 1846) the College of Cardinals met in conclave on the 14th of June.
Pius was carried away at first on the flood-tide of excitement, and seemed, after his proclamation of the 30th of March, on the point of conferring his blessing upon the war against Austria.
Among the most important acts of Pius IX must be counted his proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, by the bull Ineffabilis Deus, on the 8th of December 1854.
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 Pope Pius IX Summary
Pope Pius IX Because the conclave was deadlocked, liberals and moderates decided to cast their votes for Mastai-Ferreti – a move that was certainly contrary to the general mood throughout Europe.
Pius IX escaped in disguise to Gaeta on November 24, leaving Rome to the radicals and the mob.
Pope Pius IX Outside the loss of territory in Italy the rights of the Church were reduced across Europe, with Piedmont leading the way (Pius condemned them repeatedly, in allocutions in 1850, 1852, 1853 and 1855).
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 Pope Pius XI and the European Fascists
Italy, in chaos and near anarchy when Pope Pius XI was elected, had risen to be a strong state and was the home of the new political doctrine of fascism.
The problem for Pius was the fact that the church had taken a position against the spread of communist, and it appeared from the rhetoric coming out of Berlin that the Third Reich stood between Russian Bolshevism and the rest of Europe.
Pius XI had the misfortune to back two regimes which in later years came to be associated with brutality and dictatorships in Italy and Spain.
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 Pope Pius X Summary
Pius X's moral attitude was again clearly manifested in his refusal to approve of the Austrian and German cause at the outbreak of World War I and in his denunciation of all recourse to violence as a means of settling disputes.
Pius X's feast day was changed from 3 September to 21 August on 14 February 1969 by Pope Paul VI (1963–78) as an obligatory memorial to the sanctity of Pius X in the universal calendar.
The papal arms of Pius X are composed of the traditional elements of all papal heraldry prior to Pope Benedict XVI: the shield, the papal tiara, and the keys.
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 Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
The Pope was born in 1876 in Rome as Eugenio Pacelli.
The Pope's demands, combined with similar protests from the King of Sweden, the International Red Cross, Britain and the United States contributed to the decision by the Hungarian regent, Admiral Miklos Horthy, to cease deportations on July 8, 1944.
Pope Pius XII ordered Jewish babies baptized by Catholics during the Holocaust not to be returned to their parents.
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 Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, 1792-1878)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, 1792-1878) The longest-reigning pope, who played an important part in 19th century Italian and European developments, shaping the character of the Catholic church and the papacy prior to Vatican II, was born into a family of the lower nobility in Senigallia.
Pius reestablished the hierarchy in England in 1850 and that in the Netherlands in 1853, while his devotion to Mary led him to favor the proclamation of the immaculate conception (December 8, 1854).
Pius was convinced that this miraculous event was due to the intervention of the holy mother.
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 Pope Pius XI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pope judged that it was folly for the French Church to continue to tie its fortunes to the unlikely dream of a monarchist restoration, and found the movement's tendency to defend the Catholic religion in merely utilitarian and nationalistic terms, as a vital contributing factor to the greatness and stability of France, unorthodox.
Pius XI thus became a head of state (albeit the smallest state in the world), the first Pope who could be termed as such since the Papal States fell after the unification of Italy in the 19th century.
Pope Benedict XVI has decreed that from September 18, 2006 all documents related to the pontificate of Pope Pius XI be made available to researchers.
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 Pope Pius IX
Feb. 7, 1878, Rome), head of the Roman Catholic Church whose pontificate (1846-78) was the longest in history and was marked by a transition from liberalism to conservatism.
Victor Emanuel, having been aided by Garibaldi, a 33° Mason, in overthrowing the temporal power of the papacy and establishing religious and constitutional liberty in Italy, was informed that the Pope, when a young man, had been Initiated, Passed and Raised in a Masonic lodge.
Pius IX was found guilty, expelled, and the proclamation of his expulsion, signed by Victor Emanuel, then king of Italy and grand master of Masons in that country, was sent all over the Masonic world."
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 Pope Pius II :: Short life of Enea Silvio de' Piccolomini
Pope Pius II was born at Corsignano, near Siena on 18 Oct., 1405; elected Pope 19 Aug., 1458; died in Ancona, 14 Aug., 1464.
This was further demonstrated by the fact that Pius, on the eve of his departure from Mantua, issued the Bull "Execrabilis", in which he condemned all appeals from the decisions of the Pope to an oecumenical council (18 Jan., 1460).
Likewise the refusal of the Archbishop of Mainz, Diether of Isenburg, to abide by the Pope's decree of deposition led to civil strife.
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 St. Pius V
Pope Paul IV dying in 1559, he was succeeded by Pius IV, of the family of Medicis, who translated our good cardinal to the bishopric of Mondovi, in Piedmont, a church reduced by the wars to a deplorable and calamitous condition.
The Emperor Maximilian II wrote to Pope Pius IV to desire that priests might be allowed to marry, as a means that might facilitate the return of the modern sectaries to the communion of the church.
The pope, together with his apostolic benediction, sent to the general a prediction of certain victory, with an order to disband all soldiers who seemed to go only for the sake of plunder, and all scandalous and riotous persons, whose crimes might draw down the divine indignation upon their arms.
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 Pius XII-FAQs
The general charge against Pope Pius XII is that he maintained a “continued attitude of silence” in the face of Nazism and the horror of the Holocaust.
Pope Pius XII was not silent in the face of Nazism, either before he was elected pope in 1939 or during the war years.
It is argued that Pope Pius XII killed the encyclical because of that condemnation.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Pius VI
Pius VI resolved to go to Vienna; he left Rome on 27 Feb., 1782, and arrived in Vienna on 22 March.
The emperor accompanied the pope on his return as far as the Monastery of Mariabrunn, and suppressed this monastery a few hours after the pope had left it.
French took Rome on 10 Feb., 1798, and proclaimed the Roman Republic on 15 Feb. Because the pope refused to submit, he was forcibly taken from Rome on the night of 20 Feb., and brought first to Siena and then to Florence.
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 Pope Pius XII Table of Contents
The role of Pius XII in the Holocaust is controversial and a source of Jewish-Catholic tensions.
Pope Pius XII Encyclical: On The Holy Places In Palestine
Pope Pius XII Encyclical: On Prayers For Peace In Palestine
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 Holocaust Speeches
PETITION FOR THE BEATIFICATION OF POPE PIUS XII
This was underscored in Pius' major disciple, Pope Paul VI who, during his trip to Israel in January of 1964, refrained from even mentioning Israel other than to refer to it in terms of the Holy Land.
Since those popes insisted on the internationalization of Jerusalem, the effect was to harden Israel's view towards the Vatican and even towards Pius XII forgetting that the latter had sympathy for the Zionist dream of a homeland for the Jews.
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 The Catholic - Pope Pius VII
Later, like Pope St Leo the Great before Attila, he went on his knees in order to persuade the terrible French General Hulin to spare the city the latter was about to destroy on account of its insurrection in 1799.
Elected Pope as a compromise candidate, almost his first act was to consider the proposals extended by Napoleon for a Concordat with France.
The conciliatory tactics of Pius VII could only work up to a point, for sooner or later it was bound to come to a stage where the Faith itself or the divine constitution of the Church was threatened - and here no compromise was possible.
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 Pope Pius XII Vicar of Christ Servant of God Deserving of Sainthood
It is interesting to note that when news of Pius XII's death on October 9, 1958, was flashed around the world, an editorial, "Fighter for Peace," in the Los Angeles Examiner expressed the sentiments of Catholics and non-Catholics, and declared that this Fighter for Peace was the Pope of Peace.
During World War II, 1939—45, and for nearly twenty years after, Pope Pius XII was almost universally regarded as a saintly man, a scholar, a man of peace, a tower of strength, and a compassionate defender and protector of all victims of the war and genocide that had drowned Europe in blood for six years.
The overall effect was to replace the judgment of Pius XII as a great and good man with the judgment of him as a weak, cold, church bureaucrat.
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 Sister Margherita Marchione Commentaries on Pope Pius XII
This photo of a child presenting an American Flag to Pope Pius XII after World War II, is a reminder of past terrorism and a symbol of the present demonstration of respect and love for the red, white, and blue by the American people.
"Pius XII strongly condemned the anti-Semitic persecutions, the oppression of invaded lands and the inhuman conduct of the Nazis.
Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII, and Yours Is a Precious Witness: Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy make a strong case for the active role the Vatican and Italians took to save many Jews.
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 Pope Pius XII - A Verifiable Defense
Pope Pius XII (born March 2, 1876; died October 9, 1958) was pope from 1939 until 1958.
Pope Pius XII is identified by "Pacelli," which was his name as a Cardinal, before being elevated to the Papacy.
In June,1944, Pius XII sent a telegram to Admiral Miklos Horthy, the ruler of Hungary, and was able to halt the planned deportation of 800,000 Jews from that country.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope St. Pius I
During the pontificate of Pius the Roman Church was visited by various heretics, who sought to propagate their false doctrine among the faithful of the capital.
Pope Hyginus, continued to sow his heresy, apparently not without success.
time of this pope, who is also supposed to have built a baptistry near the former and to have exercised episcopal functions there (Acta SS., IV May, 299 sqq.; cf.
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 St. Pius X
Pius X was born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto on June 2, 1835 in the little Italian town of Riese, in the province of Treviso near Venice.
Pius also reformed the Breviary, and was founder of the Biblical Institute for the advancement of scholarship in the study of the Scriptures.
On June 3, 1951, Pius X was declared Blessed, and finally on May 29, 1954, amid the traditional pealing of the bells in the great churches of Rome, Giuseppe Sarto, the humble parish priest of the world, was canonized a saint of God.
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 St. Pius V, Pope - Catholic Online
Pope from 1566-1572 and one of the foremost leaders of the Catholic Reformation.
In 1555, Carafa was elected Pope Paul IV and was responsible for Ghislieri’s swift rise as a bishop of Nepi and Sutri in 1556, cardinal in 1557, and grand inquisitor in 1558.
As pope, Pius saw his main objective as the continuation of the massive program of reform for the Church, in particular the full implementation of the decrees of the Council of Trent.
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 ~Destroy Freemasonry~ - Pope Pius VII 1800-1823
Pope Pius VII became one of its glorious victims.
To what does Pope Pius VII refer when he makes use of the words "they hold in contempt the Sacraments of the Church"; if not to the Masonic 180 degree of the Rose Croix, which is an odious parody of the Sacrament of the Eucharist?
It is because it is the unbroken chain of Freemasonry and because the Pope is, on earth, the representative of Jesus Christ whose Cross is trampled upon by Masons, and because in the course of their rites, at the 30 initiation grade, they throw upside down the Pope's tiara and figuratively pierce his heart.
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 Pope Pius XII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pope Pius XII was pope from 1939 until 1958.
He was the chief architect and negotiator of the Reich Concordat, the treaty between the Vatican and Hitler, signed in 1933 which helped the Nazis secure their hold on German government unopposed by the powerful Catholic community.
Pius XII also failed to publish the encyclical of Pius XI, Humani generis unitas (The Unity of the Human Race), after the death of Pius XI.
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 ~The Life of Pope Pius IX~
The Birth of the Future Pope Pius IX
Pope Pius IX Proclaims the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception
Pope Pius IX was Prophesied 200 Years Before His Reign
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 Amazon.com: Pope Pius XII: Architect for Peace: Books: Margherita Marchione,Ph.D. Margherita Marchione   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
During World War II, 1939-45, and for nearly twenty years after, Pope Pius XII was almost universally regarded as a saintly man, a scholar, a man of peace, a tower of strength, and a compassionate defender and protector of all victims of the war and genocide that had drowned Europe in blood for six years.
The Pope never waivered in defense of the dignity of life and all persons and the Nazis considered him an enemy for his statements.
For example, she recounts the Pope's efforts both in Western and Eastern Europe even though Pope Pius XII was confined to his domains in Italy.
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 Pope Pius XII and the Nazis
The recent slander against the Church and Pope Pius X11 can be traced back to 1963 with Rolf Hochhuth's play, "The Deputy." In this play Hochhuth criticized Plus for being silent and portrayed his silence as cold indifference.
The fact that some bad Catholics allowed themselves to become involved with the Nazi terror cannot be blamed on Pope Pius XII—any more than the fact that there were Jewish Kapos and a Jewish police helping the Nazis enforce their extermination policies can be blamed upon Jewish religious leaders.
Pius XII plainly repudiated the perverted doctrines of the Nazis and also the immoral Fascist doctrines of Benito Mussolini (which had been condemned in the encyclical Non Abbiamo Bisogno meaning "we have no need" i.e.
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 Catholic Pages Directory: » The Church » The Pope » Pope Pius XII
Charity of Pope Pius XII An excerpt from Before the Dawn, the autobiography of Eugenio Zolli, the Chief Rabbi of Rome during the Nazi Occupation who converted to Catholicism, about the deep respect he has for Pope Pius XII's work during World War II.
Pope Pius XII and the Jews by Sr Margherita Marchione.
Pope Pius XII has been unfairly blamed over the past fifty years: for not having denounced Hitler publicly, for his perceived inaction against the Nazis, and for his failure to help the Jews.
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 Pope Pius X
It was a time that clled for strength in leadership in the Church and this humble saint was equal to the challenge.
Primarily he turned to the spiritual needs of the Church and is remembered as the pope who encourage frequent reception of Holy Communion, especially by children, and he urges that they receive this wonderful sacrament as early as possible.
The years of the pontificate of Pope Pius X were difficult, but he untiringly gave of himself "in spirit of simplicity, poverty and courage, arousing the faithful to a Christian way of life and waging constant warfare against the errors of his age." (cf.
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