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Article: Pope Pius IX and anti-Semitism? (Vatican).(Brief Article)
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- Catholic Insight
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- September 1, 2000
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VATICAN CITY--On the eve of the beatification scheduled for September 3, a press campaign has been unleashed against Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti (1792-1878), who took the name Pius IX when elected to the papacy (1846-78).
The criticisms began with the publication of John Cornwell's book Hitler's Pope, in which the author accuses Pius IX, Pius XII, and John Paul II of being the most authoritarian Popes in history. Cornwell attacks Pius IX for proclaiming the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and papal infallibility.
Early in May, the Italian press agency "Adista" published a dossier entitled "The Legend of the Kidnapper Saint," which refers to old ...