Pius xii

Hello, all. I must thank you all for your patience during the long lag since my last post, but they were months well spent on my move to Chicago, settling into a rich new community, plus a lot of work on my Norse mythology album project which is now, at last, nearly complete. In addition, my essay-writing time usually directed toward ExUrbe went, over the last few months, toward a new essay now live on Tor.com, which is very like my earlier double review of the Borgia TV series, but takes as…

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[1939 - 1958] The Pope who greeted the Philippines on the celebration of the Tricentennial of La Naval de Manila - the longest Papal Document on the Santo Rosario and La Naval de Manila www.flickr.com/groups/la_naval_de_manila/discuss/72157600...

Pope Pius XII with a bird.

Pope Pius XII

Clear ideas on a confusing subject... Is the Pope an Absolute Monarch? The Authority of the Roman Pontiff in the Catholic Church True Vicar of Christ: His Holiness, Pope Pius XII (r. 1939-58) (image: Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo / Alamy Stock Photo) We live in a post-Traditionis Custodes world. It is not surprising, therefore, that it…

"The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him" -Pope Pius XII