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HEARTS OF men the world
over, non-Catholic as well as
members of that faith, are sor
rowed by the passing of Pope
Pius XII.
Death came yesterday for the
frail, 82-year-old Pontiff who
for a score of years has been in
the forefront of the struggle
against godless Communism.
Pope Pius was much more
than the spiritual leader of 500
million Roman Catholics. He
was a staunch advocate of and
worker for world peace and sta
bility. He was an implacable
foe of the anti-Christ. His con
tribution toward the fight
against totalitarianism with its
ever-present oppression and
brutality is measureless. He was
an individual of rare intellect.
There is a possibility, albeit
remote, that the successor to
Pope Pius XII will be an Ameri
can— and the name most fre
quently mentioned is that of
Fran c i s Cardinal Spellman,
Archbishop of New York.
Cardinal Spellman, to be sure,
is perhaps the best known of
all the members of the Sacred
College of Cardinals; his friend
ship with Pope Pius is well
known.
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ference to the tradition that the
Papacy must be guarded against
any hint that it is the instru
ment of any nation’s politics.
The next Pope almost certain
ly will have been a cardinal, al
though in theory a priest of
lower rank or even a layman
could be elected.
Another cardinal often men
tioned as a possible successor to
Pius is Gregory Peter Cardinal
Agagianian, the Russian-born
Patriarch of Uniate Armenians,
who succeeded the late Samuel
Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of
Chicago, as a member of the
central governing body of the
Catholic Church.
Nonetheless, it is extremely
likely that an Italian will be the
next Pope. The last non-Italian
Pope was Hadrian VI of Hol
land, who resigned for only a
little more than one year in
1522-23.
While at the very brink of
death, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope
Pius XII, displayed an amazing
tenacity to live—a will engen
dered perhaps by a desire to
carry on his good works.
A Mon Of Peace
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS
OCTOBER 7
HISTORY will record Pope
Pius XII as one of the 20th
Century’s greatest champions of
peace.
The 82-year-old Pontiff, whose
career in the service of his
Church and God spans some of
the most turbulent years in the
history of mankind, once said:
“My only mission is peace.
The only weapon I carry is the
Cross.”
It was the same, simple mes
sage of Christ thundering down
the centuries to a world of H
bombs, missiles and other terri
ble weapons of destruction.
Never robust, the thin and as
cetic “Pope of Peace” has been
a source of strength to peaceful,
liberty-loving people every
where. World War I found him
struggling to bring about peace
as envoy of the Church to Ba
varia. He was elected the 262nd
Supreme Pontiff of the Roman
Catholic Church on March 2.
1939—h i s 63rd birthday—with
the world tottering on the brink
of the greatest and bloodiest
conflict in history. This spiritual
leader of 400 million Catholics,
with an influence vastly beyond
those numbers, worked unceas
ingly to silence the guns of war.
The tall, dark-eyed Pontiff
has opened the doors of the Vat
ican Palace wider than any oth
er Pope. And he has received in
audience untold thousands from
every walk of life. Among them
were many American service
men of all faiths, who came
away with deep impressions of
this gentle-mannered, saintly
man successor to Peter.
POPE PIUS XII has walked
freely among all who came.
Apropos of this is the little sto
ry about the Savannah group
who had an audience a few
months ago. There was one Sav
annah lady who didn’t get a
chance to meet, the Pope and
she was distressed. The fact was
relayed to Archbishop O’Hara
who conveyed the-word to the
Pontiff, then far away. The
Pope retraced his steps and
came to look for the Savannah
lady in the manner of the Gos
pel story of the shepherd who
went to look for the lamb that
had strayed.
The Catholic Church will re
cord the giant strides the
Church has made during the
reign of Pope Pius XII. Church
historians will note his great
love for Mary, the Mother of
God, and his pronouncement of
the Marian Year and the dogma
of the Assumption. But for all
Christendom, whose prayers
now bombard Heaven in his be
half, Pope Pius XII will be re
membered as a man of peace.
He has been truly a Holy Father
to more than his own immediate
church flock.
Free World Is
Saddened By Passing
Of Pius XII
AUGUSTA HERALD
The world today mourns the
passing of Pope Pius XII and
freedom has lost one of its
staunchest defenders.
Communists in Russia and
elsewhere among the satellite
or allied nations will not under
stand the relationship of Cath
olics to their Pope, nor of the
respect and good will between
the Pope and people of other
Christian faiths. And because
His Holiness was one of Com
munism’s greatest foes, Moscow
today is no doubt rejoicing his
death.
From this nation went mes
sages of sorrow and tribute from
statesmen and leaders of all
faiths. One particularly fitting,
we think, was that from Sen.
John Stennis (D-Miss.): “I re
gret the passing of a very illus
trious man in the spiritual world
who was a great advocate of the
true principles of peace. The
Pontiff had a wonderful influ
ence on world affairs and an ex
traordinary intellectual capacity
and great human traits.”
The world is poorer because
of the death of this man.
Tremendous Struggle
Conducted By Pope
Against Communism
COLUMBUS ENQUIRER
The passing of Pope Pius XII
saddened Catholics and non-
Cathoiics over the world. The
pontiff was an indefatigable
worker in the cause of peace,
speaking out many times
against Communistic tyranny.
Pope Pius died at the papal
summer castle on Lake Albano
in Italy, the first head of the
Roman Catholic church to die
outside the Vatican.
It is generally conceded that
Pius XII was among the greatest
popes. He was a scholar and a
hard worker. The Pope who was
hailed by crowds as “Papa San
to,” so discharged the functions
of head of the Holy See that it
is widely believed that some
day he will be canonized a saint
and thus receive the highest
honor of the church.
Pope Pius XII was the leader
of a tremendous spiritual strug
gle in which he urged a strong
fight by the believers in God
against the forces of expanding
materialistic and atheistic
Communism. He wrote and
spoke countless words against
the idealogy that denies God
and supports atheism.
Eugenio Pacelli was born in
Rome in 1876 and before his
election as Pope on March 2,
1939, he served in important po
sitions in the church. He visited
the United States as papal sec
retary of state in 1936. It was
then that Eugenio Cardinal
Pacelli visited Georgia.
The pontiff, who died at the
age of 82, was ordained a priest
at 23 and he celebrated his first
mass in the Rome Basilica of St.
Mary Major, the world’s oldest
Catholic shrine to the Virgin
Mary. Half a century later, as
the 261st pontiff, Pius XII made
his Holy Year pilgrimage to the
same Basilica in 1950. There he
prayed before the altar where
he said his first mass. He was
then in the 11th year of his pon
tificate. Already he had won a
place among the great Popes.
For years before his death he
was known as the “Pope of
Peace” and for his work in the
interest of world peace he will
be iong remembered.
Eugenio Pacelli,
Pius Xli
ALBANY HERALD
Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII,
“Pope of Peace,” is mourned by
more than the world’s half
billion Catholics. His death
brings sorrow to countless mil
lions of other Christians not of
his own communion and to men
of good will of all religious
faiths. Beyond question, the
Pope was in many respects one
of the most remarkable men of
the Twentieth Century and
there is little doubt but that his
church v/ill mark him among
the greatest of the pontiffs. For
while Pius XII fully respected
the conservatism of his office
and the church’s tradition, he
did not hesitate to chart a
course of modernity as the spi
ritual ruler of five hundred mil
lion of the faithful. His 19-year
reign was marked by the most
tragic wars in human history,
but no one other individual
worked harder in the cause of
peace. The motto of his reign
was “Opus Justitiae Pax” (Peace
is the Work of Justice) and his
announced belief was “nothing
is lost with peace, all may be
with war.”
Nor was there a more dedicat
ed anti-Communist than Pius
XII. Squarely, he placed the
church in the path of godless
Communism which enslaved 15
million Roman Catholics in Eu
rope alone after World War II,
and he used his foremost wea
pon, that of excommunication,
against those who chose to be
tray their faith to follow their
new Red masters. Still, his com
passion for all human beings
was limitless. Never was a Pope
more accessible, nor were his
audiences limited to Catholics,
It is estimated that the Pope re
ceived more than 10 million per
sons, up to and including a tour
ing American basketball team
whose antics caused h i m to
laugh and applaud with the de
lighted enthusiasm of a child.
The United States held a warm
place in his heart following a
visit to this country before his
election in 1939, and Americans
found they could gain a ready
audience at the Vatican. The
Pope knew President Hoover,
President Roosevelt, President
Truman and President Eisen
hower well, and a mutual re
spect existed among them.
The 261st Pope is an unbroken
line extending, in the faith of
his church, to the Apostle Peter.
Eugenio Pacelli was a great
scholar, a great diplomat, a
great priest, a great Pope and
above all, a great human being.
No doubt, in years hence, his
church will see fit to canonize
him as a saint. During his grave
illness of 1954, the Pope experi
enced a “vision of Christ,” after
which he recovered remarkably
and miraculously from an ill
ness equally as severe as that
which took his life late Wednes
day night. Despite the Pope’s
expressed reluctance, the Vati
can nevertheless confirmed
newspaper reports of his “vis
ion,” but Pius XII never spoke
of the experience publicly. To
Catholics, this incident confirm
ed a divine mark of favor equal
to the high human regard in
which Eugenio Pacelli already
was held.
Pope Pius XII
Will Rank Among
The Great Men
ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
Millions of people the world
over, Christian and non-Chris
tian alike, mourn the death of
Pope Pius XII, who has led
the Roman Catholic Church
through one of its most difficult
periods. Overcoming many of
these difficulties, he leaves the
church stronger and the cause of
Christianity even more resolute.
Leader of a half billion Cath
olics since 1939, Pope Pius XII
has been one of the great Chris
tian leaders of all time. He has
resisted — successfully in most
instances — the threat to Chris
tianity and to religion itself of
this Twentieth Century period
of materialism and the dictator
ships jt has bred.
The Pope’s great influence in
combatting these godless ideolo
gies will make him immortal in
the hearts of all free men. His
courage and intellectual honesty
and his firm spiritual bearing
have been invaluable assets in
this grim struggle.
For Hitler and Mussolini he
had only scorn. Surrounded by
military dictatorships, he re
mained untouched by their evil
influences. The most terrible of
all of them, Stalin, said with the
cynicism of the age: “And how
many divisions has the Pope?”
Stalin, too, learned the answer
The cause which he upheld
survived their onslaughts and
the frail man outlived them all.
The spiritual forces he symboliz
ed have grown stronger, thanks
to his faith and his confidence
in the rights he upheld. It is no
small tribute that the strongest
Catholic church in any country
today is said to be that of Com
munist Poland.
Pope Pius XII will be remem
bered as one of the greatest
Popes, leaving an imprint on the
ages which will continue to
strengthen millions and add to
the growth of the Christian
movement. All men everywhere
are saddened by his passing but,
profiting by his example, gain
new courage in refusing to sur
render to the evil forces which
beset us.
World Will Miss
Pope Pius XII
COLUMBUS LEDGER
Eugenio Pacelli, who came to
be called the Pope of Peace, is
dead; the great man took his
leave during a moment when
the world was at comparative
peace.
For two decades, the slight
and ascetic figure of Pius XII
has been a symbol of hope and
comfort to millions of men, wo
men and children caught up in
the horrors of communism.
It is paradoxical, almost cruel
ly ironic, that this man, who
dedicated his life to the pursuits
of international understanding,
should have reigned over a peri
od which saw the worst of all
wars and saw the development
of military weapons with capa
bilities of eliminating the hu
man race.
But, then, perhaps he came at
a time when he was most need
ed.
Likewise, his reign saw the
ascendancy of world commu
nism, bitterest enemy of the
Church, to a position in which
millions of Catholic peoples
were condemned to live under
the materialist philosophy.
Suave and gentle, Eugenio
Pacelli was born into a family
of Roman lawyers in 1876, the
same decade in which, in a place
not far away, was born Iosif
Vissarinovich Dzhugashvili, who
later became Joseph Stalin.
Once, in a moment of derision,
Stalin asked: “How many divis
ions has the Pope?” To this, the
kindly pontiff replied: “Many-^
in Heaven.”
The world will miss this gen
tle shepherd who sought, per
haps not vainly, “an equitable,
freely stipulated peace, immune
from all unjust conditions and
from all intolerable burdens im
posed by people.”
Pope Pius XII
Is Dead
ATLANTA JOURNAL
POPE PIUS XII had many
distinctions as a religious leader,
not the least of which was the
universal acclaim he com
manded as the most powerful
Pope in a century.
As the spiritual leader of
nearly one-fifth of the world’s
people, he exerted an influence
that knew virtually no bounds,
even though his geographical
kingdom had been reduced to its
historical minimum.
A modern historian, in a re
cent appraisal of the Pope’s
exalted position, said of him:
“The Holy Father now is
unreachable, surrounded by
Italian territory, and unseizable,
a purely spiritual power. . . .
Unarmed, he can take on any
enemy and, if given enough
time, he may even defeat him.”
Pope Pius was a man of peace.
He was an ardent foe of com
munism and the totalitarian way
of life. But his great aim was to
preserve the church under what
ever kind of government it
found itself.
One of the Pope’s main ob
jectives was to make the spirit
ual empire more international.
Through his two consistories —
in 1946 and 1943 — he created
a total of 56 cardinals. He also
established liaison with such in
ternational organizations a s
UNESCO, FAO, WHO and the
Red Cross.
While the Pope radiated
warmth and kindness — a qual
ity that was especially notice
able when he was with chil
dren — he was a hard driver, as
those who worked with him
learned, and he kept himself
going at an exhausting pace.
Many people were impressed
by his wide interests. Actually
these interests encompassed the
world. He made - official pro
nouncements about all sorts of
things — from small business to
noise, from motoring to the
modern girl.
The Pope was quite willing to
accept modern inventions. He
was the first Pope to use a
typewriter, ride in a plane, shave
with an electric razor, the first
to be televised and the first to
play a part in a movie.
America, both North and
South, was his special interest.
Before his elevation to St.
Peter’s Chair he had traveled
in the New World and Vatican
affairs were reoriented on the
basis of what he saw and learned
on this side of the Atlantic. Dur
ing the 1950 Holy Year, pil
grims from both. Americas
were special objects of his
solicitude.
He was the Pope of the peo
ple. His many years as a papal
diplomat brought him face to
face with the economic and
political problems that resulted
in World War II and Commun
ist expansion. He never allowed
the splendor of his office to
isolate him from the common
man, and even in Rome. which
loves to gossip about, and criti
cize, the Pope, he was popular.
His death, as President Eisen
hower said, leaves the world
poorer.
Pope Pius XII
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS
PEOPLE of all faiths the
world around join Roman Cath
olics in mourning the loss of
Pope Pius XII, who never re
lented in his efforts to bring
peace to mankind.
Death came to the 82-year-old
Pontiff Thursday at Castel
Gandoifo. the papal summer
palace. The whole world had
followed prayerfully the Pope’s
condition since he was stricken
ill the first, of the week.
Pius XTI was known as “the
Pope of Peace.” He referred to
himself as a “fighter for peace”
and once was quoted as saying
he would not rest from that
campaign “until a moment after
I am dead.”
The campaign is over for the
tall, dark-eyed and mild-man
nered spiritual leader of 450
million Roman Catholics, whose
prayers now go up to Almighty
God asking that He give Pope
Pius XII the peace which the
world would not give him.
The 19-year-old reign of Pius
XII will he a new jewell in the
diadem of the Church and he
will be ranked among the great
est in the long line of supreme
Pontiffs. His place in the hearts
of all mankind is reflected in
the universal expressions of sor
row over his passing.
The Morning News echoes the
statement of President Eisen
hower: “The world is poorer
because of the death of Pope
Pius XII.”
Pope Pius XII
AUGUSTA CHRONICLE
Catholics throughout the
world are deeply saddened by
the death of Pope Pius XII. His
passing marks the end of an un
precedented reign in which the
Pontiff established himself as a
towering figure in the affairs of
the world. In the long history of
the papacy only a few Popes
have attained the high peak on
which Pope Pius XII sat as rul
er of the world’s smallest tem
poral state and spiritual leader
of a great church. His unusual
intellectual gifts elevated him
far above many of his predeces
sors and have made for him a
place in the history of the world
unequalled perhaps since the
days of Pope Innocent.
Known as “the Modern Pope,”
Pius XII was fully abreast of
the times in which he lived. He
was a dedicated man, imbued
with deep spiritual fire and
wholly concerned with the so
cial and religious aims of his
church. He was more accessible
to the people than any other
pontiff and his frequent con
tacts with people from all parts
of the world won for him a pro
found affection as well as rev
erence for his high office.
Now that he is no more, the
Catholic world is concerned
with the question as to who
shall succeed him. Protestants
too are interested in the decision
of the College of Cardinals upon
whom rests the duty for nam
ing a successor to Pius XII.
There is some speculation as
to whether a non-Italian will be
named and Cardinal Spellman
of the United States has been
mentioned as a possible choice
for the office. Rarely in the his
tory of the papey, however, has
a non-Italian been chosen and
the chances are that the Pope’s
mantle this time will fall again
on an Italian.
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