Just wondering what your thoughts are on Pope Pius XII. For years, all I heard about him was “He was our last great Pope!” , and of course his famous quote with part that reads “Christians one day will search in vain for the red lamp where God awaits them. etc.”  Yet for many years now I have felt disgust for a Pope who really started the liturgical destruction. (Or should I say, kicked into high gear). I keep wondering how one would even explain the actions, of this so called “conservative” pope. 

Personal opinion: he was the last true Catholic Pope, but I wouldn't call him great. He was fairly weak as a Pope and a ton of the things that sprouted during Vatican II were made by those under his watch. He should have done like St. Pius X and rooted out all Modernist heretics as soon as they reared their heads, but instead he appointed some of them to key positions that would prove favorable to the Great Apostasy that would come after his death.

That said, I believe he was a devout and pious man worthy of admiration. But, he was not what I would call an exemplar of the Papacy.