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...Papacy" (TIME, Aug. 16) is really quite a tragedy, a tragedy in the fact that a first-rate American publication should allow so deceptive an article to appear on its pages. Previously you have been quite frank with your reports of Roman Catholic activity but this article about Pius XII descends to a low level in TIME news-reporting...
...Peace. The people responded with anger and dismay. In Milan, despite Premier Badoglio's ban against public assemblies, they gathered in shattered streets and cried: "We got rid of one tyranny; now we must remove another." In Rome crowds shouted "Peace!" and knelt to pray with Pope Pius XII who came from the Vatican to see the raid damage...
...Basis of Peace. These encyclicals laid the basis for the Church's peace pro gram. But no Pope has summarized more forcefully than Pius XII the Church's position on the social issues upon which peace depends. In a soth anniversary broadcast of Rerum Novarum (June 1, 1941), Pius XII brought that position up to date in a series of powerful assertions...
...Land: "As a rule, only that stability which is rooted in one's own holding, makes of the family the most vital and most perfect and fecund cell of society." Equally emphatic was Pius XII in his 1942 Christmas broadcast...
Nobody knows yet whether Pius XII will be invited to the peace conference that follows World War II or whether he would accept if he were invited. Benedict XV was expressly barred from Versailles by a clause in the secret treaty of London. But whether or not the Pope is present, the influence of the Catholic Church's peace policy will be tremendous. Most Catholics and non-Catholics alike would agree that a peace that does not embody, at least roughly, the papal position on fundamental social issues will bring not social peace but a sword. For when traditional...