Word: pacelli
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Hitler won his religious Munichs over Germany's 21,000,000 Catholics and 40,000,000 Protestants in the first six months of his power. The Vatican signed a Concordat (negotiated by Pope Pius XII, who was then Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State) with him on July 20, 1933. By it Germany guaranteed the Church full freedom in its faith, property and organizations, in return for the Vatican's pledge that each bishop would "promise to honor the constitutional government and to cause the clergy of my diocese to honor it." With that escape clause, the Nazis...
Only other American who has ever served in the Vatican's Secretariate of State is round-faced, able Most Rev. Francis Joseph Spellman, Archbishop of New York, who was attached to the Secretariate seven years-serving the last two under Cardinal Pacelli (now Pius XII), who was Secretary of State. Archbishop Spellman knows the Pope better than any other U. S. Catholic. Last week the Archbishop was luncheon host to Presidential Candidate Wendell Willkie. Said the delighted Mr. Willkie: "We had a stimulating and fine talk-I can't say anything more than that." Archbishop Spellman said nothing...
...statesmen talked peace at Hyde Park in the autumn of 1936. One was gaunt, dark-eyed Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli. Papal Secretary of State. The other was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Last year Cardinal Pacelli became Pope Pius XII. Last Christmas President Roosevelt, striving to halt World War II, recalled their talk of peace on earth. To the Pope he wrote: "In their hearts men decline to accept for long the law of destruction forced upon them by wielders of brute force. Always they seek . . . to find again the faith without which the welfare of nations and the peace of the world...
...sure sign of the Vatican's attempt to do business as usual is its dickering with Germany. As Cardinal Pacelli, Pius XII negotiated the German-Vatican concordat of 1933. The Nazis have violated it ever since. Recently the Vatican began trying to clarify the future status of apostolic nunciatures at The Hague and Brussels, the future of German Catholics, the position of Catholics in Austria and Czechoslovakia. But there was a significant omission : relief for the worst persecuted Catholics of all, those in the German slice of Poland. In the interests of diplomacy the Vatican appears willing...
Married. Marchese Giulio Pacelli, son of the late Marchese Francesco Pacelli who had a hand in the negotiations leading up to the Lateran Treaty between Italy and the Vatican in 1929; and 'Signorina Piera Bombrini; in Vatican City. Officiating at the ceremony was Pope Pius XII, formerly Eugenio, Cardinal Pacelli, uncle of the groom...