Pope Pius XII

January 1st, 2006 @ 1:00 am by Rich | | Comments: none
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On 14 May 1937, with the assistance of Eugenio Cardian Pacelli, the papal secretary of state who was soon to be Pope Pius XII, Pius XI drafted the encyclical With Deep Anxiety (Mit brennender Sorge). It was the first major church document to criticize Nazism. Smuggled into Germany, it was read on Palm Sunday form every Catholic pulpit — before a single copy had fallen into Nazi hands.

 

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