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Robert Leiber , Jesuit adviser to Pope Pius XII , advised Bishop Alois Hudal that he should think of his plan for a "ratline" for fascists escaping Europe as a "crusade"?
Eugenio Pacelli's (future Pope Pius XII ) 1936 visit to the United States was planned, in part, to investigate and silence Catholic priest and New Deal opponent Charles Coughlin ?
the decision of Pope Pius XII to appoint German apostolic administrators to occupied Poland during World War II was labelled "one of his most controversial decisions"?
Pope Pius XII 's retention of Cesare Orsenigo (pictured left, with Hitler and von Ribbentrop) as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany is a "chief point of criticism" of his response to the Holocaust ?
Pope Pius XII tried to prevent the bombing of Rome in World War II ?
Pinchas Lapide 's Three Popes and the Jews controversially claims that Pius XII saved 860,000 Jews from The Holocaust ?
Pope Pius XII's cousin, Ernesto Pacelli , was a financial adviser to Pope Leo XIII , Pope Pius X , and Pope Benedict XV ?
Pope Pius XII appointed Hilarius Breitinger as Apostolic Administrator to the Reichsgau Wartheland , the portion of Poland annexed by Nazi Germany ?
"Giovinezza " (pictured) , the official hymn of Mussolini's National Fascist Party , was played at the coronation of Pope Pius XII by the Palatine Guard ?
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Question 1 : Who of the following was a predecessor of Pope Pius XII?
Question 2 : He worked with the German priest ________ , who was known for his expertise in Church-state relations and was politically active in the Catholic Centre Party .
Question 3 : [ 191] Pius granted the Honor of Being the "Catholic University of The Philippines" to the ________ in Manila, the oldest existing in Asia.
Question 4 : Who was the successor of Pope Pius XII?
Question 5 : [ 24] This traditional adversarial relationship with Judaism would be reversed in ________ issued during the Second Vatican Council .
Question 6 : When is Pope Pius XII's birthday?
Question 7 : A report written by Pacelli the following year for President ________ and filed with Ambassador Joseph Kennedy declared that the Church regarded compromise with the Third Reich as “out of the question”."[ 26]
Question 9 : Almagia had been at the University of Rome since 1915 but was dismissed after ________ 's anti-semitic legislation of 1938.