(March 2, 1876\u2013October 9, 1958), whose given name was Eugenio Pacelli, in a radio broadcast on September 1, 1944, stated:<\/p>\n
Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.3252<\/p>\n
On August 28, 1947, in an exchange of messages with Pope Pius XII, President Harry S. Truman stated:<\/p>\n
Our common goal is to arouse and invigorate the faith of men to attain eternal values in our own generation\u2014no matter what obstacles exist of may arise in the path. \u2026 <\/p>\n
An enduring peace can be built only upon Christian principles. To such a consummation we dedicate all our resources, both spiritual and material, remembering always that \u201cexcept the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build it.\u201d3253<\/p>\n
In writing to Pope Pius XII, in 1947, President Truman said of America: <\/p>\n
This is a Christian nation.3254<\/p>\n
On March 2, 1955, in a tribute to Pope Pius XII, President Eisenhower stated at a new conference:<\/p>\n
As to His Holiness, the Pope, [on] his seventy-ninth birthday, a man that I have had the honor of visiting personally, admiring him greatly, and particularly because of his unbroken record of opposition to all forms of fascism and communism, I am quite certain that America, all America, would wish this great spiritual leader a very happy day today, and many more of them.3255<\/p>\n
In reply to an expression of loyalty given him from American bishop Fulton Sheen, published in Look Magazine,<\/i> August 22, 1955, Pope Pius XII stated:<\/p>\n
It is true that Divine Providence has invested me, although unworthily, in this position as head of the Church, but as a man I am nothing \u2026 nothing \u2026 nothing.3256<\/p>\n
In a message for Labor Day, published in Guideposts,<\/i> September 1955, Pope Pius XII stated:<\/p>\n
Labor is not merely the fatigue of body without sense or value; nor is it merely a humiliating servitude. It is a service of God, a gift of God, the vigor and fullness of human life, the gage of eternal rest.3257<\/p>\n
On January 8, 1956, in an address on the science and morality of painless childbirth, Pope Pius XII stated:<\/p>\n
If the new technique spares her the sufferings of childbirth, the mother can accept it without any scruple of conscience; but she is not obliged to do so. In the case of partial success or failure, she knows that suffering can be a source of good, if she bears it with God and in obedience to His will. \u2026 <\/p>\n
The life and sufferings of our Saviour, the pains which so many great men have born and even sought and through which they have matured and risen to the summits of Christian heroism, the daily examples we see of acceptance of the cross with resignation: all this reveals the meaning of suffering, of the patient acceptance of pain in the present plan of salvation, for the duration of this earthly life.3258<\/p>\n
On April 1, 1956, in an Easter address in St. Peter\u2019s Square, Rome, Pope Pius XII stated:<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s celebration of Easter should be primarily a recall to faith in Christ, addressed to people who, through no fault of their own, are still unaware of the saving work of the Redeemer; to those who, on the contrary, would wish to have His name wiped out of the minds and hearts of nations; and finally, in a special manner, to those souls of little faith who, seduced by deceptive enticements, are on the point of exchanging the priceless Christian values for those of a false earthly progress.3259<\/p>\n
On September 1, 1956, in a comment to a group of international heart specialists received at the Vatican, Pope Pius XII stated:<\/p>\n
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental questions of his fate, of his attitude toward God and fellow men, of his individual and collective responsibility and of the sense of his pilgrimage on earth.3260<\/p>\n
On September 3, 1956, in an address from Rome to the seventy-seventh Catholic Day at Cologne, Germany, Pope Pius XII stated:<\/p>\n
The Church continues to fight, not in the field of politics and economics as she has been falsely accused of doing, but with weapons that are proper to her: the perseverance of her faithful prayer, truth and love.3261<\/p>\n
On September 21, 1956, in a comment on interplanetary explorations, Pope Pius XII stated:<\/p>\n
God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.3262<\/p>\n
On October 15, 1956, in an address to several thousand members of an Italian feminist group, Pope Pius XII stated:<\/p>\n
The concept of the woman of the shipyards, of the mines, of heavy labor as it is exalted and practiced by some countries that would want to inspire progress is anything but a modern concept. It is, on the contrary, a sad return toward epochs that Christian civilization buried long ago.3263<\/p>\n
On November 28, 1956, in a message to the Olympic Games at Melbourne, Australia, Pope Pius XII stated:<\/p>\n
We have been pleased to recall the harmony of relations between Christian principles and sporting acitvities. \u2026 Make manifest in your acts how, without losing any of its technical value, sport, being a school of energy and of self mastery, must be ordained towards the intellectual and moral perfecting of the soul.3264<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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