When Pope Pius VI gave you your first Bishop in the person of the American John Carroll and set him over the See of Baltimore, small and of slight importance was the Catholic population of your land. At that time, too, the condition of the United States was so perilous that its structure and its very political unity were threatened by grave crisis. Because of the long and exhausting war the public treasury was burdened with debt, industry languished and the citizenry wearied by misfortunes was split into contending parties. This ruinous and critical state of affairs was put aright by the celebrated George Washington, famed for his courage and keen intelligence. He was a close friend of the Bishop of Baltimore. Thus the Father of His Country and the pioneer pastor of the Church in that land so dear to Us, bound together by the ties of friendship and clasping, so to speak, each the other’s hand, form a picture for their descendants, a lesson to all future generations, and a proof that reverence for the Faith of Christ is a holy and established principle of the American people, seeing that it is the foundation of morality and decency, consequently the source of prosperity and progress. (Pius XII: 150 years since the Establishment of the Hierarchy In the U.S.)
Cardinal Pacelli in the U.S.
July 18, 2008 by ken88
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Certainly Eugenio Pacelli was a fan of the Catholic Church in the United States.
I definitely like the beaver hat
Manifest holiness magnificently appareled, as always. Beautiful!
Cardinal Pacelli (Pius XII) visited the church of the Holy Child in Philadelphia during this visit (several years before I was born). I recall his portrait over the center door from the vestibule into the church and a plaque embedded in the sanctuary floor commemorating that he had knelt and prayed on that spot.
Holy Child parish has since been renamed Our Lady of Hope. The picture of Pius XII was not over the door the last time I was there, and a sanctuary “wreck-o-vation” covered over the plaque. Fortunately they have recently reopened the shrine to the Holy Child, so maybe there really is hope…
I know Our Lady of Hope Parish. It’s a beautiful church, and I remember, for the longest time, it was in disrepair, to the point that Mass wasn’t being held upstairs. It was sad to think of such a large, beautiful church, on top of the hill, no less, in such bad shape. But now, the upper church is being used more often, and the Holy Child shrine is back. I had no idea the future Pope Pius XII had visited there, and I wonder if their pastor (appointed last year) knows about the plaque or the church’s history.