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Emlyn Williams
Emlyn Williams 1905-87, Welsh actor and dramatist. His best-known plays are Night Must Fall (1935) and The Corn Is Green (1941). His Collected Plays were published in 1961. As an actor he is noted for his interpretations of Charles Dickens and Dylan Thomas in one-man shows and of Pope Pius... Read more |
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Rolf Hochhuth
Rolf Hochhuth , 1931-, German dramatist. His provocative first drama, The Deputy (1963), accuses Pope Pius XII and the Roman Catholic clergy of tolerating Nazi crimes against the Jews. It received productions worldwide and caused great controversy. His second play, Soldiers (1967), initially... Read more |
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Francis Joseph Spellman
Francis Joseph Spellman 1889-1967, American Roman Catholic cardinal, b. Whitman, Mass. Educated at Fordham Univ. and the American College at Rome, he was ordained May 14, 1916. He was a parish priest in Roxbury, Mass., held various offices in the Boston archdiocese, and was the first American... Read more |
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Georges d Amboise
Georges d' Amboise , 1460-1510, French statesman, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He became archbishop of Rouen in 1493. In 1498, as an intimate friend of the new king, Louis XII, he became chief minister. Subsequently he was appointed cardinal and papal legate in France. He devoted himself... Read more |
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Pius XII
Pius XII 1876-1958, pope (1939-58), an Italian named Eugenio Pacelli, b. Rome; successor of Pius XI. Ordained a priest in 1899, he entered the Vatican's secretariat of state. He became (1912) undersecretary of state and, after becoming a bishop, was appointed (1917) nuncio to Bavaria. He stayed in... Read more |
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Lateran Treaty
Lateran Treaty concordat between the Holy See and the kingdom of Italy signed in 1929 in the Lateran Palace, Rome, by Cardinal Gasparri for Pius XI and by Benito Mussolini for Victor Emmanuel III. One of the important negotiators was Cardinal Pacelli, later Pope Pius XII. In 1871 the unity of... Read more |
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Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini , 1850-1917, American nun, founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, b. near Lodi, Italy. Founded in Italy in 1880, her order was expressly for charitable and religious work among the very poor. She was sent by Pope Leo XIII to the United States... Read more |
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cardinal
cardinal [Lat.,=attached to and thus "belonging to" the hinge], in the Roman Catholic Church, a member of the highest body of the church. The sacred college of cardinals of the Holy Roman Church is the electoral college of the papacy . Its members are appointed by the pope. A cardinal's... Read more |
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Pius XI
Pius XI 1857-1939, pope (1922-39), an Italian named Achille Ratti, b. Desio, near Milan; successor of Benedict XV . Prepapal Career Ratti's father was a silk manufacturer. He studied in Milan and at the Gregorian Univ., Rome, and was ordained in 1879. His excellence in philosophy brought him to... Read more |
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Saint Pius X
Saint Pius X 1835-1914, pope (1903-14), an Italian named Giuseppe Sarto, b. near Treviso; successor of Leo XIII and predecessor of Benedict XV. Ordained in 1858, he became bishop of Mantua (1884), a cardinal (1893), and patriarch of Venice (1893). Soon after his accession to the Holy See he found... Read more |
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PIUS XII SHOULD BE SEEN FOR WHO HE WAS - A QUIET HERO
...Bergen County, NJ) 05-14-1998 PIUS XII SHOULD BE SEEN FOR WHO HE WAS...on the Shoah," voices adversely judging Pope Pius XII's alleged "silence" have increased...governments, and secret diplomacy, Pope Pius ... |
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Canonizing Pius XII: why did the pope help Nazis escape?
...German Jesuit priest shepherding Pius's cause for sainthood, has gone...as much to help the Jews as did Pius XII." Yet judging by the evidence now available to...about the difficulty of the choices Pius faced, his record with regard to... |
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The dilemma of Pope Pius XII.(A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to...
...VATICAN AND KIDNAP POPE PIUS XII By Dan Kurzman DaCapo Press...when the person doing the judging isn't the one who had...Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII. SS Gen. Karl Friedrich...Kurzman writes. When Pius ... |
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Letters
...Re "Pope vigorously defends Pius XII over his behavior during Holocaust...out the Vatican under the late Pope Pius XII for its supposed silence regarding...Aviv ...behaved as he did Sir, - Judging Pius XII ... |
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Reply to Lawrence J. Welch.(article in this issue, p. 598, on the ordinary...
...of doctrine. This was a criterion used by Pope Pius IX and Pope Pius XII in judging that the doctrines of the Immaculate Conception and Assumption were definable. Secondly, Pius IX, in his letter Tuas libenter, referred to the... |
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Pondering about a Pope called Pius
...controversy related to Pope Pius XII, whose canonization has...Austen Science said that judging by the number of people...controversy surrounding Pius derives from an inscription...and the detractors of Pius XII, and also ... |
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History's a snap it's judging today that's tricky.("Glimpses of England and...
...patently unfair posthumous sniping one sees aimed at Pope Pius XII for failing to do enough to save the European Jews in World...Ferrall, as so many writers sit in judgement of Pope Pius XII. If only we could see half so clearly our own bigotry... |
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VATICAN'S `REPENTANCE' FOR HOLOCAUST CRITICIZED.(NEWS)
...criticized the Vatican for not judging those Catholics who collaborated...those - including Pope Pius XII - who kept silent about...vigorous defense of Pope Pius XII, a dour figure who has...accusations made against Pius ... |
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HiTlER'S MAd PlAN TO SACk THE VATiCAN
...Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII. By Dan Kurzman...Mussolini, suspected Pope Pius XII of encouraging his...supernatural mission, judging her by worldly standards...unjustified criticism of Pius as "intimidated ... |
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When the Holy See wouldn't see
...Clarifying the Conduct, Judging the Culpability and...pope knew Of Pope Pius XII, Goldhagen asks...Early in his papacy, Pius XII refused to issue...drafted for pope Pius XI, his predecessor...responsibility. ... |
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