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Teilhard is still widely celebrated among Catholics as one of the church's major doctrinal martyr figures in the decades prior to Vatican II. His then unpublished writings were deemed so threatening that they were implicitly attacked in Humani Generis, Pope Pius XII's 1950 encyclical against dangerous opinions about the evolution of mankind. In 1962 the Vatican went so far as to publicly censure Teilhard by name in a so-called monitum (warning...
...those laws is surprise. Unless the playwright indulges in revisionist history, the element of surprise is missing. Rolf Hockhuth's argument in The Deputy that Pope Pius XII bore a greater responsibility than Hitler for the deaths of 6 million Jews was distinctly surprising, and while it failed to convince, it certainly contributed to the success of the play. No such element of surprise exists in I Have a Dream and Billy Dee Williams' performance has a snake oil slickness that robs it of the craggy integrity that Hal Holbrook brought to Mark Twain, or Henry Fonda...
Moro and his Christian Democrats have lately received help from an expected-but in some measure unwelcome-source. For the first time since the days when Alcide de Gasperi was the D.C. leader and autocratic Pope Pius XII threatened to excommunicate all Italians who voted Communist, the Vatican is taking a more overt part in an Italian campaign. Addressing a national conference of bishops last month, Pope Paul VI used the personal pronoun I instead of the pontifical we to stress his interest in the election. He obliquely exhorted Catholic voters to remain united behind the traditional Catholic party...
Critics of Pius XII will find little in Volume IX to dissuade them from their belief that he had other reasons for silence. In his 1975 book, The Race For Rome, Reporter Dan Kurzman contended that Pius feared that he might be "kidnaped" by the Nazis and the Vatican destroyed if he spoke out publicly-and Volume IX confirms that there were rumors of a kidnap plan in 1943. Katz, who last November was found guilty of defamation in the Massacre in Rome case, has postulated that Pius overlooked SS atrocities because he saw the Germans as a barrier against...
...conflicting views make only one thing clear: the facts have begun to fall into place, but there is as yet no consensus on the behavior of Pius XII. If anything, Volume IX has heightened the debate rather than resolved...