(11th Installation of the Canonization of St. Pius X at Catholic Pictures)
That which seems to Us not only the greatest evil but the root of all evil is this: often the lie is substituted for the truth, and is then used as an instrument of dispute. On the part of not a few religion is passed by as a thing of no importance, and elsewhere absolutely prohibited in family and social life as a remnant of ancient superstitions; public and private atheism is exalted in such a way that God and His law are being abolished, and morals no longer have any foundation. The Press also too often vulgarly reviles religious feeling, while it does not hesitate to spread the most shameful obscenities, agitating and with incalculable harm leading into vice tender childhood and betrayed youth.
By means of false promises a people is deceived and provoked to hatred, rivalry and rebellion, especially when the hereditary faith, the only relief in this earthly exile, is successfully torn from its heart. Disturbances, riots and revolts are organized and fomented in continuing series, which prepare for the ruin of the economy and cause irreparable harm to the common good. (Pope Pius XII: Combating Atheism)
One of the colossal summits of 2000 years of papacy. Every so often comes along a pope such as Pius XII. Beautiful photographs of a divine shepherd. Thanks for these. God be praised in Pacelli. How blessed we were.
That photo of him giving the apostolic benediction over the radio is great!
Is he wearing some sort of furry mozzetta?
Thomas: Thank you. Agreed, I don’t know why the process to Canonize isn’t moving faster.
Josephus: Isn’t it great the way the old 3 finger-Trinitarian blessing was done?
Daniel: Yeah, he seems to have worn the “fuzzy mozzetta” alot. I’ve posted a bunch of pics in the past were he was wearing it too.
My mom was at a Papal audience for American servicemen a few months before Pope Pius died. There was a soldier holding his child on the aisle. As they passed, Pius stopped the sampetri, took the child from the soldier, placed his mitre on the child’s head, and sat for a moment before returning the child. As the Pope passed, through her tears, my mom saw that the soldier was weeping.
There is Montini!
I thought I saw ole Montini as well! Does anyone know what the pope’s fuzzy garment is called? I’ve never seen it before.
And, is it just me, or did Pius XII have the biggest clerical collar ever? :-p
Daniel, It is Mozzetta, but what the “fuzzy” variation is called, I don’t know.
I think the fuzzy mozzetta is an ermine one. I’ve seen other pics of Pius XII wearing this mozzetta, but don’t recall another pope wearing it. There’s also an ermine trimmed red velvet one with an old style hood, resurrected by Benedict XVI I think, and a white silk one used at Easter. But they’re all called mozzetta. The white fuzzy one is pretty cool.
“One of the colossal summits of 2000 years of papacy. Every so often comes along a pope such as Pius XII. Beautiful photographs of a divine shepherd. Thanks for these. God be praised in Pacelli. How blessed we were.”
Well said and I could not agree more. You can see his holiness even in these old pictures. There is just something about them, I cannot place it.
I agree that even in photographs, the holiness of Pope Pius XII is evident. He was clearly a man of very noble bearing, and yet so humble and reverent… both monarch and servant, just like our Lord Himself. I am sure he is a saint.
I think Pope Pius XII was the only pope of the last hundred years not to use Gamarelli: he had his own tailor. Hence, perhaps, the large collar.
Highly how Pie XII is béatifié!
This Pope is undoubtedly one of the largest popes of the history which does not remove anything in Jean-Paul II, who is him also a very large Pope. For small reminder, here what says Gary Krupp* in connection with Pie XII: “Pie XII was the largest hero of the second world war… he saved more Jews than Roosevelt, Churchill and all those which are associated for them. It should not be a reason of litigation between the catholics and the Jews”.
And also information: Among the evidence that Gary Krupp could advance, figure a dated November 30, 1938 circular, signed of the Pacelli cardinal, addressed to nonciatures, to the apostolic delegations and 61 bishops. This circular required “to find 200.000 visas to allow “catholic not-Aryan” (formula coded to designate the Jews…) to leave the territory of Reich”.
One can read the following precision there: “that lenon day before so that sanctuaries are placed at the disposal to safeguard their spiritual life and to protect their worship, their habits and their traditions religious”. Little time after, in a letter gone back to January 1939, Pie XII confirmed the contents of her circular in these terms: “Do not only undertake to save the Jews but also the synagogues, the arts centres and all that belongs to their faith: rollers of the Torah, libraries, etc…” …. I do not invite that to help Hitler!
* Gary Krupp is a Jew, 62 years old, with the retirement, after having been industrial manufacturing medical equipment. In 2003 it created a foundation Pave the way “Your way” having for goal Prepares “to fill the fractures of comprehension between the religions” But most important is that this foundation financed the investigations and surveys carried out about the relations between Germany main road-Socialist and Pie XII, at the end of which it could affirm in an unquestionable way: “Did you Know that the Pie XII pope had saved more than 860.000 Jews of the camps of death? I want to say that I did not know it before. That is a characterized assassination, a “shanda” (a dishonour in Yiddish), that as well Jews says as he was anti-semite”. He added, betraying all the pressure that he had had to undergo: “Believe me, when I was child, I did not dream whom I would defend one day a man that we believe a sympathizer Nazi”.