The war regarding the reputation of Eugenio Pacelli, who in 1939 became Pope Pius XII, commenced five years after his death when, in 1963, the left-wing German playwright Rolf Hochhuth staged his ...
It is not recorded that the Pope ever asked: "How many divisions has Joseph Stalin?" He knows that Moscow threatens the world not only with its armies but with its perverted faith.
As for the correspondent from 1903 to 1936, Monsignor Gaston Vanneufville, in 1931, was entrusted by Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, Secretary of State of the Holy See and future Pope Pius XII ...
The Apostolic Administration of Estonia was originally established by Pope Pius XI in 1924. At that time, the Catholic community numbered about 2,000 faithful. The elevation to a diocese comes as ...
It noted that the previous territory, called an apostolic prefecture, had been erected in 1931 by Pope Pius XI. On Jan ... aimed to unite China’s estimated 12 million Catholics, who have ...