Below the knee, halfway down the arm, and two finger widths below the collarbone. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by reason, by Christian morality. — Pope Pius XII Character Copy Share Image
You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war. — Pope Pius XII Anti war Copy Share Image
To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings. — Pope Pius XII Christian Copy Share Image
Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution. — Pope Pius XII Atheism Copy Share Image
The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God… — Pope Pius XII Church Copy Share Image
True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same. — Pope Pius XII Christianity Copy Share Image
The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who… — Pope Pius XII Church Copy Share Image
When she was thrown into the air by a savage bull in the amphitheatre at Carthage, her first thought and action when… — Pope Pius XII Action Copy Share Image
That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to… — Pope Pius XII Action Copy Share Image
Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field… Access to employment [shall… — Pope Pius XII Access Copy Share Image
“Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a person courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual… — Pope Pius XII Football Copy Share Image
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again… — Pope Pius XII Attitude Copy Share Image
Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not… — Pope Pius XII Accumulation Copy Share Image
The preaching of the faith has lost nothing of its relevance in our times. The Church has a sacred duty to proclaim… — Pope Pius XII Christ Copy Share Image
[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which… — Pope Pius XII Authority Copy Share Image
Let no Christian therefore, whether philosopher or theologian, embrace eagerly and lightly whatever novelty happens to be thought up from day to… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone… — Pope Pius XII Bible Copy Share Image
The more pure and chaste is a soul, the more it hungers for this Bread [Jesus in the Eucharist], from which it… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to… — Pope Pius XII Bearing witness Copy Share Image
Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Beyond fashion and its demands, there are higher and more pressing laws, principles superior to fashion, and unchangeable, which under no circumstances… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
A day will come when the civilized world will deny its God, when the Church will doubt as Peter doubted. She will… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Just as the divine Redeemer, dying on the Cross, offered Himself as Head of the whole human race to the eternal Father,… — Pope Pius XII Church Copy Share Image
The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of… — Pope Pius XII Body Copy Share Image
The key to seeing why there should be a Eucharistic worship distinct from the Mass is that the Eucharist is Jesus Christ.… — Pope Pius XII Christ Copy Share Image
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit… — Pope Pius XII Book Copy Share Image
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