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Sr. Pascalina Lehnert, Pope Pius XII's housekeeper and secretary, wrote in His Humble Servant ch. 11:
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One example was the beatification process of a very well known founder of a religious order. The proceedings were concluded and waiting for the Pope’s decision. On looking through the docuмents Pius XII now found some most distasteful words often used by the servant of God, which, however, were in general use in the region where they had been uttered and not regarded as objectionable, as he was assured from various quarters. Pius XII remained deaf to every request and representation. “I cannot,” he said simply. Although all the preparations had already been made, the beatification did not receive the “Placet Eugenio.”
Who was this "servant of God" and "very well known founder of a religious order"?
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Silly Pius XII:

Had he been reading Cathinfo, he might have learned profanity and vulgarity are no sins at all!

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Rom 5: 20 - "But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more."


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Silly Pius XII:

Had he been reading Cathinfo, he might have learned profanity and vulgarity are no sins at all!

;)
Whatever the sins of the tongue of that servant of God, at least he did not allow Bugnini to change the liturgy.
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Whatever the sins of the tongue of that servant of God, at least he did not allow Bugnini to change the liturgy.

Yep.  While Pius XII was squeamish about a bit of vulgarity (some words that were not considered offensive where the person used them), he lead the entire Church into shipwreck.

1) refused to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (which would have averted all of this)
2) opened the door to evolution
3) opened the door to NFP as Catholic birth control
4) failed to defend Father Feeney against the heresy of Cushing
5) allowed Bugnini to alter the Holy Week Liturgy (even Roncalli kicked Bugnini out of Rome)
6) allowed other Liturgical experimentations (Mass of the Future anyone?)
7) allowed the first ecuмenical conferences
8) appointed, during his lengthy reign, nearly every Bishop who brought us the glories of Vatican II

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Yep.  While Pius XII was squeamish about a bit of vulgarity (some words that were not considered offensive where the person used them), he lead the entire Church into shipwreck.

1) refused to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (which would have averted all of this)
2) opened the door to evolution
3) opened the door to NFP as Catholic birth control
4) failed to defend Father Feeney against the heresy of Cushing
5) allowed Bugnini to alter the Holy Week Liturgy (even Roncalli kicked Bugnini out of Rome)
6) allowed other Liturgical experimentations (Mass of the Future anyone?)
7) allowed the first ecuмenical conferences
8) appointed, during his lengthy reign, nearly every Bishop who brought us the glories of Vatican II

Whatever his personal holiness may have been, it's apparent he was a really weak Pope.
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[img title=godmother_hd]https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files.catholicworldreport.com/2018/04/godmother_hd-678x375.jpg[/img]Mother Pascalina kneels to receive Holy Communion from the hands of Fr. Charles Murr in the Chapel of the International Center of the Friends of Newman, Via Aurelia, Rome. Fr. Murr is dressed in vestments once belonging to Pope Pius XII. (Courtesy of Fr. Murr)[/size][/color]





Most people have never heard of Mother Pascalina Lehnert. As a young nun, she worked with Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, the papal nuncio in Bavaria, and then spent many years in Rome as his trusted advisor and assistant when he was elected as Pope Pius XII. A new book tells Mother Pascalina’s story through her friendship with a young American priest. Titled The Godmother: Madre Pascalina, A Feminine Tour de Force, it is the third book of Fr. Charles Theodore Murr. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, Fr. Murr studied in Rome during the 1970s, during which time he befriended Mother Pascalina. His fascination with her came from a deep affection for and devotion to Pope Pius XII, whose right-hand-woman Mother Pascalina was for decades.
The book is a memoir, recounting years of weekly meetings between Fr. Murr and Mother Pascalina, during which they would discuss matters theological and ecclesial, and Mother would regale Fr. Murr with stories from her time working in the Vatican’s upper echelons as a strong-willed German woman among hordes of men. The book is nearly impossible to put down, filled with engaging anecdotes and remarkable insights.
Fr. Murr recently spoke with Catholic World Report about his new book, his admiration of Pius XII, and his close friendship with Mother Pascalina.

CWR: How did this book came about? What prompted you to write it?
Fr. Charles Murr: Well, I’m getting older. This next year I’ll be 68, and I thought that I should get some things down in writing before I go to God, and one of the things I wanted to do was write about some kind of incredible, fascinating people that I’ve met. One of them was Mother Pascalina. We were friends for eight years; it wasn’t just a “Hello, how are you” thing. I got to know her very well. Another one was Archbishop [Hilarion] Capucci, who just died. He was a Palestinian terrorist earlier in life! I lived with him for two years, and found him a delightful man. So I’m writing his story about a kidnapping in Beirut.
There are some things that I think should be written down before we all pass away. Mother Pascalina is a particular important person because of her role with Pius XII, her perception of the Second Vatican Council, what was happening, how it was coming about; the election of John XXIII; her relationship with Pope Montini [Paul VI]. She was a religious of the old kind, very old school, so you didn’t talk about certain things. She didn’t take about her past – it was very difficult to get her to talk about her family. She was uncomfortable with that, because you weren’t supposed to go there. It’s a mentality that nobody really understands or appreciates today.
She was very careful at first about her opinions on certain matters, and about having her opinions on certain people. And over the years, we became very close and she became very candid with her opinions. And I just thought those opinions should be out there.

CWR: One thing that stands out is the way you describe your first encounter with Rome. Is that really how you felt when you first “met” Rome? Or was this, and other portions of the book, exaggerated for dramatic effect?
Fr. Murr: No, I really didn’t want to exaggerate anything. I tried to be as honest as I possibly could. Maybe there’s a little bit of nostalgia in it that makes those days even more sparkling than what they were – perhaps because of the years; everything’s better when you’re 18! I had a particular grace that was given to me by God in life. When I had good times, I knew they were good times, and I enjoyed them fully. A lot of people would say, “We never knew how good we had it,” or “Those were great times and we didn’t see it.” I never had that; I knew they were great times. I knew Rome was spectacular. I knew it. And I had studied a lot about it, so I knew what I was looking at.
I ran from my hotel to the Basilica – I ran! I couldn’t wait to get to the Basilica! I read about it and heard about it when I was a kid, so it was just really overwhelming. And I remember standing right inside the Basilica, almost frozen, and just took it all in, and I was just overwhelmed. I could not believe it, I’d never seen anything so beautiful.
I don’t understand how people can talk about the pyramids, for example, being beautiful, and the genius that people had to build these. Are you kidding me? My God, look at St. Peter’s Basilica, it’s mind-boggling! The 250 years that it took to build it! This is unbelievable. The people who laid the foundations never even saw the half of it. I was just overwhelmed.
I think it’s just colossal. The Catholic treasury that we have, and we don’t get excited about it anymore.

CWR: Why do you want people to know about Mother Pascalina and about Pope Pius XII?
Fr. Murr: Because it’s scary to me to talk to university students (and I talk to a lot of them; I live right in the middle of the University of San Francisco);  they’re not sure who fought the Second World War. I’m not exaggerating, I don’t have to exaggerate. The only thing they know is, they’re pretty sure a man by the name of Hitler was the worst human being ever to walk the earth, but they’re not sure when he lived and what he was associated with — that’s kind of vague. So this idea of history, a lot of young people today (more than ever before) think that history, world history, began with their birth. And it is so sad, a tragedy, that they don’t have any idea of spiritual roots, of historical roots in Europe, it’s just not there. I thought they should be interested in getting to know things.
I look at the Church today, and it’s sad. We’ve lost 80% of our practicing Catholics. I remember the day, I can picture Mother Pascalina’s face when she told about Pope Pius XII and his vision of the sun dancing in the Vatican gardens, the vision of Fatima that was afforded him alone as a privilege. He came back and talked to her about it. Pius XII was of the same ilk as Mother Pascalina: you didn’t talk about these things to people. He talked about it openly to her and couldn’t contain his excitement, he just couldn’t believe it.
This is a man that was absolutely in control of himself, totally disciplined. Incredible. And he told this to Mother Pascalina. I asked what that vision was like, and she said to me, “The only word that the Holy Father used to describe the entire experience was ‘Apostasy.’” I said “What?” She said “Apostasy. I was almost sure of what the word meant, but I purposely went to the dictionary to look it up again, to make sure that I knew, that it wasn’t something other than what I thought it was. And it was exactly what I thought it was. That was the Fatima experience, the great apostasy.”
If we’re not in that today, I don’t know who’s in it. People should know that. Is the end of the world coming? All I can tell you is that we’re closer today than we were yesterday.
Also, the take on the Second Vatican Council was remarkable. She told me “This wasn’t John XXIII opening a window. This is nonsense. For 4 or 5 years, Pope Pius XII prepared the Second Vatican Council. And then he put it all away one day, and I asked him why he decided not to go ahead with these plans.” And he told her that the bishops of the world were not sufficiently mature to take it on. And it was all tabled. I think that’s exactly what happened; he was right. The bishops of the world were not mature enough to take it on. They really made a mess of it. Not that there weren’t things that needed changing and reforming, but this is out of control. Do you think Paul VI foresaw people dancing around during the consecration? And people doing cartwheels? This is crazy. Nobody envisioned this; this is not what was wanted. So in a lot of ways, that was exactly correct: they were not mature enough.
What I’m trying to say is, there were a lot of things that happened at that time that people cautioned about, but no one was careful. And this is where we’re at today. It’s sad. A lot of the things of the Council were not correctly applied. Pius XII was very right to be worried.
The Godmother, Madre Pascalina Lehnert, kneels to receive a first blessing from her Godson, Fr. Charles Theodore Murr at his ordination to priesthood in the Basilica of Saints John and Paul, Caelian Hill, Rome, May 13th, 1977. (Courtesy of Fr. Murr)

CWR: Another fascinating thing about the book are the little vignettes, the interesting stories Mother Pascalina would share with you. My favorite was the story of Padre Pio’s vision of Pius XII being received into heaven by Bl. Pius IX.
Fr. Murr: Isn’t that great? Mother Pascalina described some men, including Pope St. Pius X, as “still having the dirt under their fingernails,” from the farm. In other words, they were real, hardworking, down-to-earth men. And Padre Pio was like that, too – gruff like that. The humanity of these people is sensational.
I just wish people would know who this woman was, because to know her is to know about Pius XII, and about Church history. Also, her efforts during the war to hide Jєωs and to accommodate these thousands of Jєωs – she said that after the war, people remark on how many Jєωs they’d saved. She said “You have no idea, there wasn’t any food! You hide the Jєωs, that’s one thing, but now you’ve got to feed them 3-5 times a day. You’ve got kids, and diapers – you’re just run ragged.” There’s all this that we never think about.
She dedicated herself to keeping all those thousands of people alive.
I should have put this in: during the war, the women at convents all throughout Europe were attacked, raped, sometimes killed; and putting it all back together after the war was a tremendous undertaking. You can’t imagine the psychological torture. Mother Pascalina worked hard in trying to get it all back together and take care of these women. I asked her if she ever heard of American or English or Australian or Canadian soldiers doing something like that, and she said never, not once. Only the Axis of Evil. And she had all of the docuмents from everything.

CWR: Is there anything else you want to add?
Fr. Murr: Just that I wish people would know their own Catholic history, and not be ashamed of Pius XII because he “didn’t do enough for the Jєωs” – this is ridiculous. It’s not ridiculous, it’s sick. He did more than anybody in the world ever did for the Jєωs, and Mother Pascalina was right there to help him. Pius XII is very mistreated by history, and that’s a shame. I would love to see the canonization of Pope Pius the Great, Pius XII, and Mother Pascalina wanted to see that.

https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/01/03/the-story-of-the-godmother-advisor-to-pope-pius-xii/
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Just a guess:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Mary_of_the_Cross_Jordan


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In 1942 the process for Jordan's canonization was introduced to the Holy See. As part of this process, in 1956 his body was exhumed, examined and transferred to the Salvatorian motherhouse in Rome. On 14 January 2011, Pope Benedict XVI authorized the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to publish the decree on the heroicity of his virtues, granting him the title of Venerable.[7]

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On looking through the docuмents Pius XII now found some most distasteful words often used by the servant of God
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On 1892 Jordan accepted the request of Ambrose Oschwald, a priest from Baden, who had led a group of people from that region to Wisconsin, in the United States, in order to form a Christian communal way of life. The Salvatorians then became established in that country
He's German and sent missionaries to Wisconsin; sounds like our man.;)
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Yep.  While Pius XII was squeamish about a bit of vulgarity (some words that were not considered offensive where the person used them), he lead the entire Church into shipwreck.

1) refused to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (which would have averted all of this)
2) opened the door to evolution
3) opened the door to NFP as Catholic birth control
4) failed to defend Father Feeney against the heresy of Cushing
5) allowed Bugnini to alter the Holy Week Liturgy (even Roncalli kicked Bugnini out of Rome)
6) allowed other Liturgical experimentations (Mass of the Future anyone?)
7) allowed the first ecuмenical conferences
8) appointed, during his lengthy reign, nearly every Bishop who brought us the glories of Vatican II
Only adding about the 8), even though he took off Montini from Rome, he put him as archbishop of Milan, one of the most papabile dioceses of Italy.
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On looking through the docuмents Pius XII now found some most distasteful words often used by the servant of God, which, however, were in general use in the region where they had been uttered and not regarded as objectionable, as he was assured from various quarters.
Considering the Pius XII was either a Modernist or an extremely Modernist-controlled pope, the excuse used to not canonize this nun must be considered bogus and false.  The reasons she was denied sound very petty and marginal.  The kind of reasons given due to political or modernist purposes.

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Only adding about the 8), even though he took off Montini from Rome, he put him as archbishop of Milan, one of the most papabile dioceses of Italy.

Yeah, I forgot that one.  Montini was exposed for having ratted out clandesinte Catholic clergy behind the Iron Curtain.  Reportedly Pius XII "wept" but then did nothing but deprive him of a red cap.

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Whatever his personal holiness may have been, it's apparent he was a really weak Pope.

He was enamored of the modern world and modern science.  He was the type of Pope I imagine that Father Robinson SSPX would make.


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"I asked her if she ever heard of American or English or Australian or Canadian soldiers doing something like that, and she said never, not once. Only the Axis of Evil. And she had all of the docuмents from everything."


TOTAL CROCK.
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Yep.  While Pius XII was squeamish about a bit of vulgarity (some words that were not considered offensive where the person used them), he lead the entire Church into shipwreck.

1) refused to consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (which would have averted all of this)
2) opened the door to evolution
3) opened the door to NFP as Catholic birth control
4) failed to defend Father Feeney against the heresy of Cushing
5) allowed Bugnini to alter the Holy Week Liturgy (even Roncalli kicked Bugnini out of Rome)
6) allowed other Liturgical experimentations (Mass of the Future anyone?)
7) allowed the first ecuмenical conferences
8) appointed, during his lengthy reign, nearly every Bishop who brought us the glories of Vatican II
Fr Bugnini CM did not reform the Holy Week. He was secretary to the Commissio Piana, headed by Cardinal Micara, also Prefect of the Congregation of Rites. Yves Chiron says he was an 'invaluable worker' who rarely intervened, exercising no 'decisive influence,' but used this work as a preparation for later. He created research tools for the academic minded bureaucrats like the Benedictine Fr Ferdinando Antonelli, substantially responsible for getting rid of the Mass of the Pre-sanctified, which Fr Antonelli considered supersitious, Cardinal Bea SJ (of Psalter fame or infamy) were just two of the learned progressivists on that body.

It really makes the pointer stronger in that it gave birth to Bugnini the Mass destroyer, hitherto a sort of tinkerer who edited some obscure Vincentian periodical, someone who learned from the best and most radical of the liturgical meddlers who creating something full of cod ancient nonsense.

Bugnini did like to give the impression the Holy Week Reform was substantially his work, but it was not. Instead it was a school for his wicked attack on the Mass.

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This book gave some unusual insights into Pius XII's papacy.

Pope Pius XII was marked by Jєωιѕн idiosyncratic behaviour, in that he let Mother Pascalina basically run the Vatican for him.


"Some preachers will keep silence about the truth, and others will trample it underfoot and deny it. Sanctity of life will be held in derision even by those who outwardly profess it, for in those days Our Lord Jesus Christ will send them not a true Pastor but a destroyer."  St. Francis of Assisi

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This book gave some unusual insights into Pius XII's papacy.

Pope Pius XII was marked by Jєωιѕн idiosyncratic behaviour, in that he let Mother Pascalina basically run the Vatican for him.



That book is, as Sr. Pascalina called it, "garbage", lacking citations and credibility. It blasphemously claimed Cdl. Pacelli gave Hilter Church funds and that Cdl. Pacelli said the financier Nogara was the best thing that happened to the Vatican since Jesus Christ!
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