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Pope Pius XII
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God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members.
— Statement (7 September 1956), as quoted in America, Vol. 100 (1958) by America Press, p. 121
Pope Pius XII
Pope of the Catholic Church from 1939 to 1958
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- Italy rank#69
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- Fame76.3
- Momentum11.6
- Italy rank#69
- Religious Figures rank#6
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Lived 1876–1958, aged 82Italy
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He led the Catholic Church through the Second World War from a position of declared neutrality, and decades later the questions haven't gone away: what he said publicly about the Holocaust, what he did quietly, and whether either was enough.
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Eugenio Pacelli was born in Rome on 2 March 1876 and spent most of his life climbing the ranks of the Vatican's diplomatic corps—papal nuncio to Germany, Cardinal Secretary of State, architect of treaties across Europe and Latin America. Elected pope on 2 March 1939, he inherited a church on the edge of global war. His 19-year papacy stretched across the Second World War, the founding of the United Nations, and the opening of the Cold War, but it's the war years that fixed his legacy in argument: defenders point to discreet aid for Jews and ties to the German resistance; critics to his public…
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Pope Pius XII
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True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.
— address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 22 November 1951
Pope Pius XII
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Besides, every human being, even the child in the womb, has the right to life directly from God and not from his parents, not from any society or human authority.
— Allocution to Midwives on the Nature of Their Profession, October 29, 1951. [http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius12/P12midwives.htm
Pope Pius XII
said
All men are brothered in Jesus Christ.
— Statement (27 May 1946), as quoted in America, Vol. 100 (1958) by America Press, p. 121
Pope Pius XII
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Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin.
— Radio Message of His Holiness Pius XII to Participants in the National Catechetical Congress of the United States in Boston, from Castel
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