• After his July intestinal surgery, he is “still alive, even though some people wanted me to die.” He remarked that some cardinals were preparing for a conclave, believing his condition was grave.
• He recommends the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius particularly to Jesuits suffering from a lack of fervor.
• Ideologies have “a diabolical appeal,” and gender ideology in particular is “dangerous.” However the Pope cautioned against making abstract judgments rather than considering individuals. “If there is a ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ couple, we can do pastoral work with them, move forward in our encounter with Christ.”
• The Western world must welcome migrants and help them to become members of their host society. “Leaving migrants without integration is leaving them in misery; it is equivalent to not welcoming them.”

NO POPE has done more harm to the Church than one Karol Wojtyla ... period.  Because he presented himself as an ultra-conservative on MORAL issues, his promotion of religious indifferentism was imbibed by the entire conservative wing of the Conciliar Church.  Similarly, Ratzinger presented himself as a Traditionalist.

I disagree, Pope Pius XII is my choice as the worst pope in history. When it comes to Catholic ecclesiology and his encyclical Humani Generis that allows 'discussion' on Adam's body coming from 'pre-existing living matter' that was because he was a Big Bang evolutionist who tried to convince all that the Big Bang was God's creative act billions of years ago. Here is his speech:

‘44. It is undeniable that when a mind enlightened and enriched with modern scientific knowledge weighs this problem calmly, it feels drawn to break through the circle of completely independent or autochthonous matter, whether uncreated or self-created, and to ascend to a creating Spirit. With the same clear and critical look with which it examines and passes judgment on facts, it perceives and recognizes the work of creative omnipotence, whose power, set in motion by the mighty “Fiat” pronounced billions of years ago by the Creating Spirit, spread out over the universe, calling into existence with a gesture of generous love matter bursting with energy. In fact, it would seem that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial “Fiat lux” uttered at the moment when, along with matter, there burst forth from nothing a sea of light and radiation, while the particles of chemical elements split and formed into millions of galaxies.’ On the other hand, how different and much more faithful a reflection of limitless visions is the language of an outstanding modern scientist, Sir Edmund Whittaker, member of the Pontifical Academy of Science, when he speaks of the above-mentioned inquiries into the age of the world: “These different calculations point to the conclusion that there was a time, some nine or ten billion years ago, prior to which the cosmos, if it existed, existed in a form totally different from anything we know, and this form constitutes the very last limit of science. We refer to it not improperly as creation. It provides a unifying background, suggested by geological evidence, for that explanation of the world according to which every organism existing on the Earth had a beginning in time. Were this conclusion to be confirmed by future research, it might well be considered as the most outstanding discovery of our times, since it represents a fundamental change in the scientific conception of the universe, similar to the one brought about four centuries ago by Copernicus.” It has, besides, followed the course and the direction of cosmic developments, and, just as it was able to get a glimpse of the term toward which these developments were inexorably leading, so also has it pointed to their beginning in time some five billion years ago. Thus, with that concreteness which is characteristic of physical proofs, it has confirmed the contingency of the universe and also the well-founded deduction as to the epoch when the cosmos came forth from the hands of the Creator.’--- Pope Pius XII, 1951.

There is no coincidence in that Vatican II showed how many modernists were allowed flourish in Pius XII pontificate. As regards Biblical alterations, well his 1943 encyclical on the Bible let the fox out into the chicken house.

‘There were glimmers of hope during the anti-modernist decades. Catholic scholars in German universities and the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome (founded in 1909) continued to pursue solid scholarship, principally in philosophy and archaeology. Of special significance is the work of Augustine Bea, S.J. (1881-1968) who became best known as a leader in ecuмenism at Vatican II… Bea had an immense impact on the composition and publication of Divino Afflante Spiritu.’ ---    America: the Jesuit Review, Sept, 1993

'This freeze endured until in 1943 Pius XII’s great encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu reopened the door to the use of modern methods of Biblical study and established scholarship in the scientific investigation of the Scriptures. The Pontifical Biblical Commission was quick to follow this initiative with a letter to Cardinal Suhard, Archbishop of Paris… taking this as an encouragement to revisit areas which had been blocked off by earlier decisions… stressing that in the context of the times it would have been unwise to teach a particular doctrine, but not that a particular doctrine was untrue or incorrect …No responsible Biblical scholar would today agree with any of these directives of the Biblical Commission.’ --    Henry Wansbrough OSB (current member of the PBC: The Centenary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, Ampleforth Journal, autumn 2003.

The ‘freeze’ referred to above, was of course that brought about by Benedict XV’s Spiritus Paraclitus and Pius X’s Pascendi. But, as Wansbrough says, after Divino Afflante Spiritu, one could once again subject the Bible to modern scientific and historical reinterpretations if new findings of science required,

Aye’ Cassini man... you have broached neo-trad heresy! 🕺

How dare you attack Pope Pius XII... have you gone crazy man?

I think you and Lads are both wrong.

The worst Pope ever had to be... the little demonic homo-Jєω Montini 🤷🏻‍♂️

I disagree, Pope Pius XII is my choice as the worst pope in history. When it comes to Catholic ecclesiology and his encyclical Humani Generis that allows 'discussion' on Adam's body coming from 'pre-existing living matter' that was because he was a Big Bang evolutionist who tried to convince all that the Big Bang was God's creative act billions of years ago. Here is his speech:

I may have to agree with you ... given the premise that those after him weren't actually popes. 

Pius XII was the watershed pope that led directly to Vatican II:

1) opened the door to evolution
2) opened the door to the use of NFP as Catholic contraception
3) started the liturgical experimentations (appointing Bugnini)
4) held the first preliminary ecuмenical conferences
5) allowed Cardinal Cushing, a heretic, to win out over Father Feeney
6) during his lengthy reign, appointed nearly every bishop who would bring us the glories of Vatican II

I know there are some that I'm forgetting.  But Vatican II could not have happened without Pius XII.

There's the caveat, of course, that he never actually TAUGHT evolution, and was clearly opining at an allocution regarding NFP, and was probably manipulated a lot with regard to all of the other issues.  In other words, no, he was not an anti-Pope.  Some people say he was basically half-dead during the last few years of his reign (being poisoned perhaps by someone).

Yes, there's no way to save Sacred Scripture when saying it's possible that Adam had been created from "LIVING" matter, since Scripture clearly states that Adam was created from [the clay of] the earth.