We must therefore take account of this changeable nature of things and of human institutions and prepare for them with enlightened foresight.

We must therefore take account of this changeable nature of things and of human institutions and prepare for them with enlightened foresight.

Pope Pius XI
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Pope Pius XI called for a world-wide day of prayer, to be held on 16 March 1930, on behalf of the persecuted believers in Russia. This action led Stalin to suspend temporarily the antireligious campaign, according to Roy Medvedev

Lynne Viola, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance
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It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.

Pope Pius XI
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We must therefore take account of this changeable nature of things and of human institutions and prepare for them with enlightened foresight.

Pope Pius XI
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The power of sacred music increases the honor given to God by the Church in union with Christ, its Head. Sacred music likewise helps to increase the fruits which the faithful, moved by the sacred harmonies, derive from the holy liturgy. These fruits, as daily experience and many ancient and modern literary sources show, manifest themselves in a life and conduct worthy of a Christian.

Pope Pius XII
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In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: "Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite.

Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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When Pope Pius XII died, LIFE magazine carried a picture of him in his private study kneeling before a black Christ. What was the source of their information? All white people who have studied history and geography know that Christ was a black man. Only the poor, brainwashed American Negro has been made to believe that Christ was white, to maneuver him into worshiping the white man. After becoming a Muslim in prison, I read almost everything I could put my hands on in the prison library. I began to think back on everything I had read and especially with the histories, I realized that nearly all of them read by the general public have been made into white histories. I found out that the history-whitening process either had left out great things that black men had done, or some of the great black men had gotten whitened.

Malcolm X
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