Pope Pius XII
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Nov 1, 2026
Alan FimisterGUEST
I think the key change, the key novelty, is that the United States of America emerges as the hegemonic power at the end of World War II.
Alan FimisterGUEST
So there is still the first encyclical, Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus, which is really directed against fascism and Nazism and communism, is still reasserting this doctrine of the social kingship of Christ quite strongly at the beginning of the encyclical.
Alan FimisterGUEST
But then I think from the end of the war, it becomes a very different situation.
Alan FimisterGUEST
The Catholic Church trebles in size in the United States, I believe, during the Pontificate of Pius XII, and the United States emerges the hegemonic power.
Alan FimisterGUEST
The United States is unusual for a non-totalitarian state in that it's very ideological.
Alan FimisterGUEST
I mean, in the sense that it has ideologically unified founding documents fathers like the church has fathers and and it makes some it makes this this situation makes disagreement with the unanimous consensus of those fathers uncomfortable psychologically because of the piety the natural piety of Catholics in the United States towards the founders of their Republic and so the The obvious clash between the social kingship of Christ as laid out by Pius XI in his encyclical 1925, I think, Quas Primus, about social kingship of Christ and the unanimous consensus of the US fathers is a source of significant tension.
Richard BoyleHOST
St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, pray for us.
Richard BoyleHOST
Today in Church History, Pope Pius XII Consecrates the World to Mary On October 31, 1942, with the Second World War raging across Europe, Pope Pius XII turned to the Blessed Virgin Mary in one of the most significant Marian acts of his pontificate.
Richard BoyleHOST
Speaking by radio to the Catholics of Portugal, the Pope solemnly consecrated the Church and the entire human race to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Richard BoyleHOST
the occasion was particularly meaningful.
Larry ChappHOST
So my point is that this is – I'm not a Johnny-come-lately to this conversation.
Larry ChappHOST
It's something that has really interested me for a long time, and there are still a lot of – to borrow a phrase from the year 2000, still a lot of hanging chads with regard to some thorny issues like original sin, the first humans, monogenism versus polygynism, you know, the encyclical by Pius XII on humani generis and so forth.
Larry ChappHOST
So without further ado, the news that you sent to me was that after many, many years of trying, uh, The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has just added to its catechetical recommendations a new category for Catholic high school curriculums on science and religion, the Catholic Church and science.
Larry ChappHOST
And they are specifically recommending, as one of their recommended books, your book on the topic.
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Christopher BaglowGUEST
So
Larry ChappHOST
one of the things is that I think the document places too much weight.
Larry ChappHOST
perhaps, perhaps not, on the condemnation of polygyny in humanae generis by Pius XII.
Larry ChappHOST
The idea that modern science shows us that anatomically modern homo sapiens emerged you know by the thousands sort of rather rather you know we don't rather abruptly really chronologically but in other words there was no uh situation where there was some sort of mutation to sort of a homo habilis or something like that all of a sudden two two Primitive hominids gave birth to the same mutate.
Barbara McGuiganHOST
I mean, we see what's happening there.
Barbara McGuiganHOST
Okay, I want to look at Pius XII here.
Barbara McGuiganHOST
This is one of Bishop Sheen's talks, I guess, right at the book.
Barbara McGuiganHOST
What is the main book that we're talking about here right now?
Allan SmithGUEST
He became a Monsignor at a young age.
Allan SmithGUEST
And of course, when you become a Monsignor, you then can go to the Vatican and have, you know.
Allan SmithGUEST
So, you know, he spoke... very fondly of Pius X, Pius XII.
Allan SmithGUEST
You know, he talks about the popes in his writings.
Anthony StineHOST
But alas, we are not likely to get any kind of encyclical of that nature anytime soon, especially not from the current pontiff.
Anthony StineHOST
So today we turn to Pius XII, the last truly, I think, Orthodox pope we've had, for his direction on spiritual direction.
Anthony StineHOST
This is the continuation of our
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look at his encyclical, Mediator Dei.
Anthony StineHOST
For the Eternal Father chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and unspotted in His sight.
Anthony StineHOST
All our prayers, then, and all our religious practices should aim at directing our spiritual energies towards attaining this most noble and lofty end.
Anthony StineHOST
Thus the words of Pope Pius XII, Remediator Dei.
Anthony StineHOST
And while he was explicitly talking about seminarians and laity who have important roles doing the work of the church, like in Catholic action or who work for dioceses, I think this applies to us as well.
Joe McClaneHOST
His name was Eugenio Pacelli.
Joe McClaneHOST
You know him as Pope Pius XII.
Joe McClaneHOST
St. John saw it on Patmos and a great sign appeared in heaven.
Joe McClaneHOST
A woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and a crown of 12 stars upon her head.
Joe McClaneHOST
And this is his response to Bishop Barron.
Joe McClaneHOST
Whatever anyone may think, the church that sustains me is the church of St. John Paul II and the Assisi Interfaith Declaration.
Joe McClaneHOST
Notice he didn't say Pope Pius XII, you know, Urban V, Sixtus V, Akita, nothing, just Pope, just JP II, SEC interfaith.
Joe McClaneHOST
But I digress.
William AlbrechtHOST
How you been, brother? I was thinking of you as I've been talking about all things Irish, brother.
William AlbrechtHOST
How you been, man? Where have you been? The tremendous moderator and member, our near and dear brother, Kothel Ryan says, have you heard of Pope Pius XII seeing the miracle of the sun on October the 30th, the 31st, and November the 1st, 1950? and the eighth on the octave of the proclaiming of the bodily assumption of our Immaculate Mother Mary.
William AlbrechtHOST
Yes, yes.
William AlbrechtHOST
There is a remarkable account that Pope Pius XII, and this is a reality, he witnessed an incredible phenomenon.
William AlbrechtHOST
That was the, it was the miracle of the sun at Fatima.
William AlbrechtHOST
In fact, if I'm correct, one, two, three, four, yes.
William AlbrechtHOST
right around the time that he solemnly defined the dogma of the bodily assumption of our Immaculate Mother Mary.
William AlbrechtHOST
So it was October 30th, 1950, 31st, 1950, November 1st, 1950.
SamHOST
For his portrayal of a Catholic priest in the 1944 film Going My Way, this entertainer won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
SamHOST
He later helped present a copy of the film to Pope Pius XII.
SamHOST
Name that entertainer.
SamHOST
All right, number six.
SamHOST
All right, number five.
SamHOST
For his portrayal of a Catholic priest in the 1944 film Going My Way, this entertainer won the Academy Award for Best Actor.
SamHOST
He later helped present a copy of the film to Pope Pius XII.
SamHOST
Great film.
William AlbrechtHOST
And then unfortunately, we have the octave.
William AlbrechtHOST
That octave is, I don't like to use the word suppressed, but it's suppressed under Pope Pius XII.
William AlbrechtHOST
So that octave is suppressed.
William AlbrechtHOST
And then you get to the 1962 Missal, as he points out, it's first class, but it doesn't have an octave.
Terence M. StantonHOST
Otherwise, Russia cannot be converted and we cannot have a period of peace.
Terence M. StantonHOST
If you're having a discussion with someone and they say, well, that already happened under Pius XII or John Paul II or Francis, ask them what the fruits are.
Terence M. StantonHOST
We've been promised by Our Lady the conversion of Russia and a period of peace.
Terence M. StantonHOST
Has Russia been converted? No, there's a tiny Catholic population in Russia.
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