Pacelli

With regard to Pius XII, I would be remiss to not note that the Cardinal celebrant of this liturgy is none other than Cardinal Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII.

More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel 2009

Cardinal Pacelli, the future Pius XII, is seated upon the faldstool on the Epistle side.

More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel 2009

Then we present the dramatic testimony of Dietrich von Hildebrand, an eminent Catholic philosopher, who had been marked for death by Hitler because of his outspoken opposition to anti-Semitism and Nazism, and who knew Pacelli when he served as papal nuncio in Germany.

Interreligious Dialogue 2009

The news that Yad Yashem, the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, recently began serious discussions that might lead to revision of its exhibit against Eugenio Pacelli (Pope Pius XII), was cautiously welcomed by Pius 'defenders, and those involved in interfaith affairs.

Interreligious Dialogue 2009

The third was the infamous 1933 Pacelli/von Papen deal in which Hitler got to be Chancellor and the Vatican got the concordat with Germany that they had wanted since Bismarck.

Matthew Yglesias » Why Two Parties? 2009

The only semi-Romano I knew was actually Irish, a sweet, white-haired, elderly Jesuit who ran the observatory attached to the boarding school I had attended in Sydney, and who, from time to time, would travel to Italy to take charge of its sister institution, belonging to the pope Pius XII, aka Eugenio Pacelli and situated at Castelgandolfo, outside the Eternal City.

The Forever City Robert Hughes 2011

That the Vatican continued to believe this was a good deal is demonstrated by the otherwise inexplicable fact that Pacelli, by then Pope Pius XII, honored von Papen for it in 1958.

Matthew Yglesias » Why Two Parties? 2009

The following year, while the Nazis rounded up thousands of Jews in Rome, Pacelli remained silently ensconced within his palace.

Ariel Gonzalez: An Open Letter to Bernard-Henri Levy, on His Defense of Roman Polanski and Pope Benedict XVI 2010

Let's see, in 1917, while serving as archbishop of Munich, Pacelli was instrumental in denying a request from German Jews for palm fronds from Italy so "their Jewish cult," as he referred to the faith of Jesus, could celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

Ariel Gonzalez: An Open Letter to Bernard-Henri Levy, on His Defense of Roman Polanski and Pope Benedict XVI 2010

The following year, while the Nazis rounded up thousands of Jews in Rome, Pacelli remained silently ensconced within his palace.

Ariel Gonzalez: An Open Letter to Bernard-Henri Levy, on His Defense of Roman Polanski and Pope Benedict XVI 2010