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Before his election as Pope, Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio strongly opposed same-sex marriage and the same-sex marriage bill that Argentina senate debated in 2010. Bergoglio became a member of the Society of Jesus in 1958. Born as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis is the 266th and present Pope of Roman Catholic Church. He was energetic on this point and regretted that in the case of Galileo". [259] Italian Papal diplomat Angelo Roncalli (later Pope John XXIII) and Polish Archbishop Stefan Wyszyński were others among those elevated in 1953. It was on Moscow Radio, on 2 June 1945, that the first accusation directly against Pius XII of refusing to speak out against the exterminations in Nazi concentration camps. They exchanged gifts and lunched together. Pope Francis[14] was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bergoglio was the son of Italian immigrants to Argentina. Upon being elected pope he was also formally the Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, prefect of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches and prefect of the Sacred Consistorial Congregation. [133], As the war was approaching its end in 1945, Pius advocated a lenient policy by the Allied leaders in an effort to prevent what he perceived to be the mistakes made at the end of World War I. However, over the next 18 months Brazil's Conselho de Imigração e Colonização (CIC) continued to tighten the restrictions on their issuance, including requiring a baptismal certificate dated before 1933, a substantial monetary transfer to the Banco do Brasil, and approval by the Brazilian Propaganda Office in Berlin. Since the soul is a spiritual substance, it is not brought into being through transformation of matter, but directly by God, whence the special uniqueness of each person. Pope Francis Faces Another German Reformation. When they opened the window in the evening, he looked out at the stars and said quietly "Look, how beautiful, how great is our Lord”. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life. This step was envisaged earlier, but delayed due to Japanese pressure to establish relations with the pro-Japanese Wang Jingwei government. [252] Abe Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), who had himself been baptized as a child and had undergone a custody battle afterwards, called for an immediate freeze on Pius's beatification process until the relevant Vatican Secret Archives and baptismal records were opened. Papal travel abroad had been rare before the modern era: Pope John Paul II (1978-2005) made more foreign trips than all previous Popes put together. He also took on issues like the uses of medicine in terminally ill persons, medical lies in face of grave illness, and the rights of family members to make decisions against expert medical advice. They also ensured that canon law would be recognized within some spheres (e.g., church decrees of nullity in the area of marriage). He chose the name Francis to honor St. Francis of Assisi.. Francis is the first Jesuit pope. His forty-one encyclicals include Mystici corporis, the Church as the Body of Christ; Mediator Dei on liturgy reform; and Humani generis, in which he instructed theologians to adhere to episcopal teaching and allowed that the human body might have evolved from earlier forms. After L'Osservatore Romano reported this, several priests expressed their support for the law. He was also a bishop before he was the pope. [79] On 10 June 1941, the pope commented on the problems of the Reichskonkordat in a letter to the Bishop of Passau, in Bavaria: "The history of the Reichskonkordat shows, that the other side lacked the most basic prerequisites to accept minimal freedoms and rights of the Church, without which the Church simply cannot live and operate, formal agreements notwithstanding". [204] On 23 August 1944, he met British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who was visiting Rome. Pope Pius XII (Italian: Pio XII), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (Italian pronunciation: [euˈdʒɛːnjo maˈriːa dʒuˈzɛppe dʒoˈvanni paˈtʃɛlli]; 2 March 1876 – 9 October 1958), was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2 March 1939 until his death in 1958. [232], Following the Nazi/Soviet invasion of Poland, Pius XII's Summi Pontificatus called for the sympathy of the whole world towards Poland, where "the blood of countless human beings, even noncombatants" was being spilled. "I thought of wars, while the voting continued, though all the votes," he said ... "And Francis is the man of peace. [247] The pope ordered Rotta and other papal legates to hide and shelter Jews. The note thanked Washington for passing on the intelligence, and confirmed that reports of severe measures against the Jews had reached the Vatican from other sources, though it had not been possible to "verify their accuracy". – Pope Francis was nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. His encyclical, 74.A l'Eveque de Passau, in "Lettres de Pie XII aux Eveques Allemands 1939–1944, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1967, p. 416, Pius XII, quoted in Joseph Brosch, Pius XII, Lehrer der Wahrheit, Kreuzring, Trier,1968, p. 45, "Medius vestrum stetit quem vos nescetis. Pope Francis sent a letter in June advising them on the synod and "The proposal, which followed the instructions of a June letter from the Pope, was … 505–11. Francis has even joked about the situation, saying in July: "The last time there were two or three popes, they didn't talk among themselves and they fought over who was the true pope!" The numerous reforms of Pius XII show two characteristics: renewal and rediscovery of old liturgical traditions, such as the reintroduction of the Easter Vigil, and a more structured atmosphere within the Church buildings. [126], To Pius XII, science and religion were heavenly sisters, different manifestations of divine exactness, who could not possibly contradict each other over the long term. Pope Francis approved the canonization cause of Blessed Charles de Foucauld in May 2020. Promoted to the position of minutante, he prepared digests of reports that had been sent to the Secretariat from all over the world and in the same year became a papal chamberlain. [45][46] This meant the Pope was saying atheists could be allies of the Catholic Church, instead of enemies. However, Pacelli obtained less favorable conditions for the Church in the Prussian concordat of 1929, which excluded educational issues. [293] Some historians have questioned this[294] often cited number, which Lapide reached by "deducting all reasonable claims of rescue" by non-Catholics from the total number of European Jews surviving the Holocaust. "[287], On 21 September 1945, the general secretary of the World Jewish Council, Leon Kubowitzky, presented an amount of money to the pope, "in recognition of the work of the Holy See in rescuing Jews from Fascist and Nazi persecutions. Pacelli supported German diplomatic activity aimed at rejection of punitive measures from victorious former enemies. Pope Francis started his three-day official visit Iraq, the first ever papal visit to the country. [296], In 1963, Rolf Hochhuth's controversial drama Der Stellvertreter. No other Pope in Catholic history has had the name Francis, and he is also the first Jesuit to be elected as Pope. They are free to engage in empirical research, which the Church generously supports, but in matters of morality and religion, they are subjected to the teaching office and authority of the Church, the Magisterium. In 2011, he called it "the Devil's work". At their meeting, the Pope acknowledged the justice of punishing war criminals, but expressed a hope that the people of Italy would not be punished, preferring that they be made "full allies" in the remaining war effort. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. Almagia had been at the University of Rome since 1915 but was dismissed after Benito Mussolini's antisemitic legislation of 1938. Pius XII asks for prayer for better understanding and unification of the Churches. [181], Pius attempted, unsuccessfully, to dissuade the Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini from joining Hitler in the war. "[117] The deposit of faith is authentically interpreted not to each of the faithful, not even to theologians, but only to the teaching authority of the Church.[118]. His strongest public condemnation of genocide was considered inadequate by the Allied Powers, while the Nazis viewed him as an Allied sympathizer who had dishonored his policy of Vatican neutrality. It was agreed to include all 47 individual questions by the six members, and use them as Preliminary Report. After the death of Maglione in 1944, Pius left the position open and named Tardini head of its foreign section and Montini head of the internal section. The courier between the resistance group under Admiral Canaris and the Pope was the Bavarian lawyer and Catholic politician Joseph Müller. In particular, the questions of denominational schools and pastoral work in the armed forces prevented any agreement on the national level, despite talks in the winter of 1932. The miracle pertains to a male plagued with severe influenza and pneumonia that could have proven to be fatal; the individual was said to have been healed in full after a novena to Pius XII. [235] In his 1942 Christmas Eve message, he expressed concern for "those hundreds of thousands, who ... sometimes only by reason of their nationality or race, are marked down for death or progressive extinction. The Lateran treaties with Italy (1929) were concluded before Pacelli became Secretary of State. Francis knew McCarrick from before he was pope and probably knew that the charismatic and well-connected prelate had had a hand in his election as … And even in the past month, the possibility that Pope Francis is an anti-pope has made its way through the Italian press.. Pope Francis did … [316] Other important works challenging the negative characterization of Pius's legacy were written by Eamon Duffy, Clifford Longley, Cardinal Winning, Michael Burleigh, Paul Johnson, and Denis Mack Smith. He expected the concordat with Catholic Bavaria to be the model for the rest of Germany. Pope Benedict XV appointed Pacelli as nuncio to Bavaria on 23 April 1917, consecrating him as titular Archbishop of Sardis in the Sistine Chapel on 13 May 1917. [282], Reports from 2014 indicate a potential miracle from the United States attributed to the intercession of the late pope that was reported to the postulation. Several historians have interpreted the conclave to choose his successor as facing a choice between a diplomatic or a spiritual candidate, and they view Pacelli's diplomatic experience, especially with Germany, as one of the deciding factors in his election on 2 March 1939, his 63rd birthday, after only one day of deliberation and three ballots. He is also the first pope in more than a millennium who is not European. Several encyclicals addressed the Eastern Catholic Churches. The Pope smiled. [285] During the war he was also praised editorially by The New York Times for opposing Nazi anti-Semitism and aggression. More than 150 people have applied to access the archives, although only 60 can be accommodated in the offices at one time. [321], The Commission did not discover any documents, but had the agreed-upon task to review the existing Vatican volumes, that make up the Actes et Documents du Saint Siege (ADSS)[322] The commission was internally divided over the question of access to additional documents from the Holy See, access to the news media by individual commission members, and, questions to be raised in the preliminary report. After his election was indeed confirmed, he chose the name Pius XII in honour of his immediate predecessor. [33] Also according to Cornwell, Pacelli informed Gasparri that "the capital of Bavaria, is suffering under a harsh Jewish-Russian revolutionary tyranny". He left Berlin on 10 December 1929. [32][33] Bergoglio is against same-sex marriage. Relevant documents have also been released by the Argentine government and the British Foreign Office. Lindeijer explained that this was the reason that the cause has stalled in the past as none have come forward to assist the postulation in their investigations. Pius defended the authority of the State to carry out punishment, up to and including the death penalty. Among the first to view the documents will be representatives of the Jewish community in Rome, and scholars from Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) (Latin: Franciscus, Italian: Francesco, Spanish: Francisco; born on 17 December 1936) is the 266th and current pope of the Roman Catholic Church. [169], According to Hitler biographer John Toland, following the November 1939 assassination attempt by Johann Georg Elser, Hitler said Pius would have wanted the plot to succeed: "he's no friend of mine". [172] In the spring of 1940, a group of German generals seeking to overthrow Hitler and make peace with the British approached Pope Pius XII, who acted as an interlocutor between the British and the abortive plot. Since it is currently thought that the Germans will take no further steps against the Jews in Rome, the question of our relations with the Vatican may be considered closed. [20] Pope Francis said in a statement that there should be "unity" between followers of different religions.[21]. [311] Daniel Goldhagen's A Moral Reckoning and David Kerzer's The Pope Against the Jews denounced Pius, while Ralph McInery and José Sanchez wrote more nuanced critical assessments of Pius XII's pontificate. [324], The 47 questions by the six scholars were grouped into three parts: (a) 27 specific questions on existing documents,[325] mostly asking for background and additional information such as drafts of the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge, which was largely written by Eugenio Pacelli. [47], Francis was named 2013 Time Person of the Year in December 2013. Before starting his liturgical career he worked as a chemical technician and bight-club bouncer. The Vatican & the Holocaust: 860,000 Lives Saved – The Truth About Pius XII & the Jews by Robert A. Graham, S.J. [314], A number of other scholars replied with favourable accounts of Pius XII, including Margherita Marchione's Yours Is a Precious Witness: Memoirs of Jews and Catholics in Wartime Italy (1997), Pope Pius XII: Architect for Peace (2000) and Consensus and Controversy: Defending Pope Pius XII (2002); Pierre Blet's Pius XII and the Second World War, According to the Archives of the Vatican (1999); and Ronald J. Rychlak's Hitler, the War and the Pope (2000). Money has to serve, not to rule. Jorge Mario Bergoglio and Argentina’s “Dirty War” By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, August 29, 2018. By doing this, the Pope was showing that he accepted people who belonged to different religions.[23]. [261] The Communists and Socialists seemed headed for victory and Pius XII wanted Catholic Action, an organization of Catholic laity, to mobilise the Catholic vote against parties of the Left. [169] Pius warmly welcomed Roosevelt's envoy and peace initiative, calling it "an exemplary act of fraternal and hearty solidarity... in defence against the chilling breath of aggressive and deadly godless anti-Christian tendencies". Pro-Secretary of the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, Cardinal-Priest of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, [euˈdʒɛːnjo maˈriːa dʒuˈzɛppe dʒoˈvanni paˈtʃɛlli], Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, The Church experienced severe persecution, Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, extensive visit to the United States in 1936. POPE BENEDICT was 'pushed' into resigning as head of the Vatican church and 'did not wish to go' before Pope Francis was installed as his successor, an author has told Express.co.uk. The Church's attempted intervention caused the Nazis to retaliate by arresting rabbis and deporting them to the death camp. He was completely exhausted. [120] In the encyclical Ad caeli reginam he promulgated the Queenship of Mary feast. British Public Records Office FO 371/30175 57760. Life God Disaster. The nations swept into the tragic whirlpool of war are perhaps as yet only at the "beginnings of sorrows"... but even now there reigns in thousands of families death and desolation, lamentation and misery. [127] Regarding their relation, his advisor Professor Robert Leiber wrote: "Pius XII was very careful not to close any doors prematurely. He was quoted as saying "I call myself Pius; my whole life was under Popes with this name, but especially as a sign of gratitude towards Pius XI. [201][202] However, in 2007, subsequent to those accounts, Dan Kurzman published a work which he maintains establishes that the plot was a fact. In April 1940, the Vatican advised the US government that its efforts to provide humanitarian aid had been blocked by the Germans and that the Holy See had been forced to seek indirect channels through which to direct its aid. He spoke there during his visit to the United States on 24 September 2015. [218], In 1941, Cardinal Theodor Innitzer of Vienna informed Pius of Jewish deportations in Vienna. Who among "the Soldiers of Christ" – ecclesiastic or layman – does not feel himself incited and spurred on to a greater vigilance, to a more determined resistance, by the sight of the ever-increasing host of Christ's enemies; as he perceives the spokesmen of these tendencies deny or in practice neglect the vivifying truths and the values inherent in belief in God and in Christ; as he perceives them wantonly break the Tables of God's Commandments to substitute other tables and other standards stripped of the ethical content of the Revelation on Sinai, standards in which the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount and of the Cross has no place? Pius X died on 20 August 1914. Fahlbusch, Erwin (ed.). He reaffirmed previous accounts of Pius having been a saviour of thousands of Europe's Jews. God is in everyone's life. Afterwards, when asked if women should become priests,[43] Francis replied: The Church has spoken and says no ... that door is closed. He followed a strict public policy of Vatican neutrality for the duration of the conflict mirroring that of Pope Benedict XV. I did not want to believe it, but here, too, he was to be proved right. And that word entered here," the pope said, pointing to his heart. [85] He was one of only two men known to have served as Camerlengo immediately prior to being elected as pope (the other being Pope Leo XIII). Pius XII did not publicly condemn the expulsions and forced conversions to Catholicism perpetrated on Serbs by Pavelić;[185] however, the Holy See did expressly repudiate the forced conversions in a memorandum dated 25 January 1942, from the Vatican Secretariat of State to the Yugoslavian Legation. Domenico Tardini and Giovanni Montini would be elevated[99] and Pius XII informed the assembled cardinals that both of them were originally on the top of his list,[100] but they had turned down the offer, and were rewarded instead with other promotions. Benedict's signature on the Decree of Heroic Virtue was regarded by some as a public relations blunder, though acceptance of Pius XII as a saviour of Europe's Jews is regarded as 'proof of fidelity to the Church, the pope and the Tradition' by neoconservative Catholic groups. Now he’s finally proven he isn’t. The Pope still addressed lay people and groups about a wide range of topics. Pope Francis, as he became, is the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to lead the Roman Catholic Church. 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Two speeches on 29 October 1951, and 26 November 1951: Discorsi E Radiomessaggi di sua Santita Pio XII, Vatican City, 1940, p. 407; Discorsi E Radiomessaggi di sua Santita Pio XII, Vatican City, 1942, p. 52; Discorsi E Radiomessaggi di sua Santita Pio XII, Vatican City, 1946, p. 89 Discorsi E Radiomessaggi di sua Santita Pio XII, Vatican City, 1951, pp. [224] In September 1941, Pius XII objected to a Slovak Jewish Code,[225] which, unlike the earlier Vichy codes, prohibited intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews. [176] After Germany invaded the Low Countries during 1940, Pius XII sent expressions of sympathy to the Queen of the Netherlands, the King of Belgium, and the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg. In 1905 he received the title domestic prelate. [citation needed]. It was in 1969 that he was ordained as a Catholic priest. Sometimes he answered specific moral questions, which were addressed to him. [30] In this book, he said that celibacy "is a matter of discipline, not of faith. The book is a record of conversations he had with a Buenos Aires rabbi. Pale, dirty, with drugged eyes, vulgar, repulsive ..." John Cornwell alleges that a worrying impression of anti-Semitism is discernible in the "catalogue of epithets describing their physical and moral repulsiveness" and Pacelli's "constant harping on the Jewishness of this party of power usurpers" chimed with the "growing and widespread belief among Germans that the Jews were the instigators of the Bolshevik revolution, their principal aim being the destruction of Christian civilization". If the Pope had protested, Rome would have become the center of attention. In the same speech, the Pope said that Catholic and Jewish people are connected "by a most special spiritual bond." [265], With frequent absences from work, Pope Pius XII had come to depend heavily on a few close colleagues, especially his aide Domenico Tardini, his speechwriter Robert Leiber, and his long-serving housekeeper Pascalina Lehnert. Cornwell, p. 128. The issue for those who do not believe in God is to obey their conscience. Ludwig Volk, "Die Kirche in den deutschsprachigen Ländern" in: Pham, p. 45, quote: "When Pius XI was complimented on the publication, in 1937, of his encyclical denouncing Nazism, Bokenkotter, pp. He is an active member of San Lorenzo de Almagro, which is one of the teams in the Primera División league. We were all fugitives, and fugitives do not wish to be pointed at. 1986. 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Only 30 days after his coronation, on 12 April 1939, Pope Pius XII named Spellman as archbishop of, Pio XII, La Allocuzione nel concistorio Segreto del 12 Gennaio 1953 in Pio XII, Discorsi e Radiomessaggi di Sua Santità, Vatican City, 1953, p. 455, Tardini later thanked him for not appointing him. [154], Pius XII reiterated Church teaching on the "principle of equality"—with specific reference to Jews: "there is neither Gentile nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision". Pope Francis has said that he thinks same-sex couples should be allowed to have "civil unions". Other information sources have become available, including the diary of Bishop Hurley. [180] Later he appealed to the Allies to spare Rome from aerial bombing, and visited wounded victims of the Allied bombing of 19 July 1943. As Jews were taken away from the ghetto that sat right alongside St Peter's, he may have agonised, but he did not intervene. 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