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Papa Pio XII frasi celebri
citato in Pius XII, Devant L'Histoire, pp. 52-53
Origine: Citazione di Eugenio Pacelli quando era Segretario di Stato di papa Pio XI.
da Discorso al Congresso Unione Cattolica Italiana Ostretiche del 1951
“Nulla è perduto con la pace: tutto può esserlo con la guerra!”
dal discorso radiofonico del 24 agosto del 1939
Frasi su Dio di Papa Pio XII
Mediator Dei
dal radiomessaggio del Natale 1951
dal discorso di Pio XII ai professori ed allievi del Liceo Ennio Quirino Visconti, di Roma del 28/2/1957; citato in Discorsi e Radiomessaggi di Sua Santità Pio XII, Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, vol. XVIII, p. 803
dal radiomessaggio http://www.totustuus.biz/users/magistero/p12rad42.htm di Natale del 1942
Frasi sulla vita di Papa Pio XII
Mediator Dei
dal Discorso al patriziato e alla nobiltà romana http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/speeches/1947/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19470108_nobilta-romana_it.html, 8 gennaio 1947
da Discorso agli sposi
Papa Pio XII Frasi e Citazioni
citato in Salvino Chiereghin, La musica, divina armonia, SEI, Torino 1953.
“[Teresa di Lisieux è un] Piccolo tabernacolo di Dio vivente.”
citato in Antonio M. Sicari, Una santa famiglia. Teresa di Lisieux e i suoi genitori Zelia Guérin e Luigi Martin, Editoriale Jaca Book, 2008
Mediator Dei
Mystici Corporis Christi
Mystici Corporis Christi
Ad caeli Reginam
da lettera a Adolf Hitler del 6 Marzo 1939; citato in Paolo Pedote, 101 motivi per credere in Dio e non alla Chiesa, Newton Compton 2010
dall'enciclica Summi Pontificatus, 20 ottobre 1939
Origine: Da Allocuzione di Sua Santità Pio XII ai membri dell'associazione di donatori di cornea e l'Unione Italiana Ciechi http://www.malatidireni.it/filesito/trapianti%20cnt/1956%20Pio%20XII%20trapianti.pdf, 14 maggio 1956. Pubblicato in spagnolo e tradotto da Mara Della Vecchia, per conto dell'Associazione Malati di Reni onlus.
“Il sentimento della modestia si accompagna al sentimento della religione.”
citato in Fulton J. Sheen, Tre per sposarsi, Edizioni Richter, Napoli 1964
da Agli uomini di Azione Cattolica, 7 settembre 1947
da una lettera a Benito Mussolini; citato in Gianni Padoan, La grande crociata di Pio XII, Historia, n. 145, dicembre 1969, Cino del Duca
radiomessaggio del 1° settembre 1944; citato in Gianni Padoan, La grande crociata di Pio XII, Historia, n. 145, dicembre 1969, Cino del Duca
da Discorso ai marchigiani residenti a Roma http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/speeches/1958/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19580323_marchigiani_it.html, Basilica Vaticana, 23 marzo 1958
su Giacomo Gaglione
Origine: Da una lettera del 3 novembre 1944; citato in Biografia http://www.giacomogaglione.it/biografia2.html, giacomogaglione.it.
“Ma la giovinezza immortale della Chiesa si manifesta — oh cosa mirabile!”
specialmente nel dolore. Essa è «Sposa di sangue» (cfr. Exod. 4, 25). Nel sangue sono i suoi figli, i suoi ministri, calunniati, imprigionati, uccisi, sgozzati. Chi avrebbe creduto mai possibile, in questo secolo ventesimo — dopo tanti progressi di civiltà, dopo tante affermazioni di libertà —, tante oppressioni, tante persecuzioni, tante violenze? Ma la Chiesa non teme. Essa vuole essere Sposa di sangue e di dolore, per ritrarre in sé l'immagine del suo Sposo divino, per soffrire, per combattere, per trionfare con Lui. (da Agli uomini di Azione Cattolica http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/speeches/1947/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19470907_uomini-azione-cattolica_it.html, 7 settembre 1947)
Papa Pio XII: Frasi in inglese
“Perhaps the greatest sin in the world today is that men have begun to lose the sense of sin.”
Radio Message of His Holiness Pius XII to Participants in the National Catechetical Congress of the United States in Boston https://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/speeches/1946/documents/hf_p-xii_spe_19461026_congresso-catechistico-naz.html, from Castel Gandolfo on Saturday, 26 October 1946
Statement (7 September 1956), as quoted in America, Vol. 100 (1958) by America Press, p. 121
Allocution to Midwives on the Nature of Their Profession, October 29, 1951. http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P511029.HTM http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius12/P12midwives.htm
Contesto: Besides, every human being, even the child in the womb, has the right to life directly from God and not from his parents, not from any society or human authority. Therefore, there is no man, no human authority, no science, no "indication" at all—whether it be medical, eugenic, social, economic, or moral—that may offer or give a valid judicial title for a direct deliberate disposal of an innocent human life, that is, a disposal which aims at its destruction, whether as an end in itself or as a means to achieve the end, perhaps in no way at all illicit. Thus, for example, to save the life of the mother is a very noble act; but the direct killing of the child as a means to such an end is illicit. The direct destruction of so-called "useless lives," already born or still in the womb, practiced extensively a few years ago, can in no wise be justified. Therefore, when this practice was initiated, the Church expressly declared that it was against the natural law and the divine positive law, and consequently that it was unlawful to kill, even by order of the public authorities, those who were innocent, even if on account of some physical or mental defect, they were useless to the State and a burden upon it. The life of an innocent person is sacrosanct, and any direct attempt or aggression against it is a violation of one of the fundamental laws without which secure human society is impossible. We have no need to teach you in detail the meaning and the gravity, in your profession, of this fundamental law. But never forget this: there rises above every human law and above every "indication" the faultless law of God.
Allocution to Midwives on the Nature of Their Profession, October 29, 1951. http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P511029.HTM http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius12/P12midwives.htm
Contesto: Besides, every human being, even the child in the womb, has the right to life directly from God and not from his parents, not from any society or human authority. Therefore, there is no man, no human authority, no science, no "indication" at all—whether it be medical, eugenic, social, economic, or moral—that may offer or give a valid judicial title for a direct deliberate disposal of an innocent human life, that is, a disposal which aims at its destruction, whether as an end in itself or as a means to achieve the end, perhaps in no way at all illicit. Thus, for example, to save the life of the mother is a very noble act; but the direct killing of the child as a means to such an end is illicit. The direct destruction of so-called "useless lives," already born or still in the womb, practiced extensively a few years ago, can in no wise be justified. Therefore, when this practice was initiated, the Church expressly declared that it was against the natural law and the divine positive law, and consequently that it was unlawful to kill, even by order of the public authorities, those who were innocent, even if on account of some physical or mental defect, they were useless to the State and a burden upon it. The life of an innocent person is sacrosanct, and any direct attempt or aggression against it is a violation of one of the fundamental laws without which secure human society is impossible. We have no need to teach you in detail the meaning and the gravity, in your profession, of this fundamental law. But never forget this: there rises above every human law and above every "indication" the faultless law of God.
Allocution to Midwives on the Nature of Their Profession, October 29, 1951. http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P511029.HTM http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius12/P12midwives.htm
Contesto: Besides, every human being, even the child in the womb, has the right to life directly from God and not from his parents, not from any society or human authority. Therefore, there is no man, no human authority, no science, no "indication" at all—whether it be medical, eugenic, social, economic, or moral—that may offer or give a valid judicial title for a direct deliberate disposal of an innocent human life, that is, a disposal which aims at its destruction, whether as an end in itself or as a means to achieve the end, perhaps in no way at all illicit. Thus, for example, to save the life of the mother is a very noble act; but the direct killing of the child as a means to such an end is illicit. The direct destruction of so-called "useless lives," already born or still in the womb, practiced extensively a few years ago, can in no wise be justified. Therefore, when this practice was initiated, the Church expressly declared that it was against the natural law and the divine positive law, and consequently that it was unlawful to kill, even by order of the public authorities, those who were innocent, even if on account of some physical or mental defect, they were useless to the State and a burden upon it. The life of an innocent person is sacrosanct, and any direct attempt or aggression against it is a violation of one of the fundamental laws without which secure human society is impossible. We have no need to teach you in detail the meaning and the gravity, in your profession, of this fundamental law. But never forget this: there rises above every human law and above every "indication" the faultless law of God.
“All men are brothered in Jesus Christ.”
Statement (27 May 1946), as quoted in America, Vol. 100 (1958) by America Press, p. 121
address http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Pius12/P12EXIST.HTM to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 22 November 1951
quoted in Time, 3 December 1951
quoted by Dan Brown, Angels and Demons, page 44
