How do you know that? Why is it that people, esp. those of the consilliest variety, make with the "who am I to judge/don't judge" bit save when said judgment is of the "charitable" sort?

Does this application of judgment belong to God, or doesn't it?

That is true, the judgment belongs to God. However the holiness of Pope Pius XII is such that I would not be surprised that he could be canonized. It would only be a matter of time.  

I once had correspondence with Martin Gwynne, a sedevacantist who ran Britain's library. Martin was a brilliant writer and scholar. He once told me Pope Pius XII was the worst pope ever. Puzzled I asked him to explain. I never got the details but I think he had a paper giving all the errors like above. Ultimately, he said, it was no coincidence that the Church after his reign produced Vatican II. No other pope in history preceded such a blow to Catholicism.

When I read Pius XII's utterances to the Pontifical Academy of Science, endorsing the Big Bang billions of years ago and the evolution of all I said, no traditionalist here. Then when he wrote Humani Generis, allowing all to actually take evolution seriously, I could not believe it. When he said the body of Adam might have come from a pre existing animal, I cringed. What his encyclical never said was 'where did the body of Eve come from? There is NO evolutionary EVE that could explain how she came from the first man, Adam. It is stuff like that that gave modernism its credibility.


Finally, it was Vatican II that was 'canonised' plunging the Church into further chaos. God help me but I will never address any Vatican IIites as 'Saints.'

Just read that Réginald Marie Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (1877–1964) was a French Catholic theologian and that he is
said to be the drafter of Pope Pius XII's 1950 encyclical Humani generis, subtitled "Concerning Some False Opinions Threatening to Undermine the Foundations of Catholic Doctrine".

He means allowing false opinions 'Threatening to Undermine the Foundations of Catholic Doctrine.'


In his 1992 Galileo commission speech, Pope John Paul II said this:

8. Another crisis similar to the one we are speaking of, can be mentioned here. In the last century and at the beginning of our own, advances in the historical sciences made it possible to acquire a new understanding of the Bible and of the biblical world. The rationalist context in which these data were most often presented seemed to make them dangerous to the Christian faith. Certain people, in their concern to defend the faith, thought it necessary to reject firmly-based historical conclusions. That was a hasty and unhappy decision. The work of a pioneer like Fr Lagrange was able to make the necessary discernment on the basis of dependable criteria.

Many thanks for correction Geremia. I was wondering because Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange;wrote THE LITURGICAL YEAR which I have all 15 volumes of and consider the best ever written.

Marie-Joseph Lagrange (7 March 1855, Bourg-en-Bresse – 10 March 1938. Père Lagrange, like other scholars involved in the 19th century renaissance of biblical studies, was suspected of being a Modernist. --- Wiki.

Once you see 'suspected' you can bet on it.


Then there is Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange (1877-1964) who is the one that probably taught John Paul II.