Word: pius
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Next day, the Pope made his first major speech since the war's end, laid down his program for the peace. Of all the world's leaders, Pius was certainly one of those who had thought long, hard and deep about the underlying requisites of peace. The result was not sensational, but it was basic. It would be preached to the world's 331,000,000 Catholics in many tongues. It could not be ignored, even in the Kremlin...
Taken together, the Pope's two acts, on successive days, staked out for the Church its biggest religious and political role in world affairs since the Crusades. If all roads no longer led to Rome, Pius was yet eager that the roads that did lead there be used to the fullest...
...Pius XII is the only Pope who has ever set foot in the U.S. He has learned to lean on it in many ways, from cash to idealism. He showed both his knowledge and his dependence in selecting the four new American cardinals...
...selecting two red hats for the Red-dominated part of Europe, Pius showed again that he knew exactly what he was doing. Poland's courageous, 78-year-old Archbishop Adam S. Sapieha had shared his people's sufferings and welcomed the Red Army. Hungary's new Primate, Archbishop Joseph Mindszenthy, had been imprisoned by the Nazis...
...ideal of "one flock and one shepherd" remained an ideal; the scandalous reality of a divided Christendom remained too. The ideal was reasserted by Pope Pius, in a letter to the Archbishop of Trent on the quadricentennial of the Council...