"Rome, the herald, the mother and guardian of civilization and the eternal values of life; this Rome which its greatnest historian already called, as if by divine instinct, caput orbis terrarum (capital of the world, Livy, I, 16) and whose destiny is a mystery which is unfolded through the centuries..."
Pope Pius XII: Address on Easter Sunday. March 28, 1948
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Is there a place to access an entire English copy of Pius XII's Easter Sunday Address from which that quote was taken?
If you have a seminary or Catholic univeristy library near you go there and look for volumes of Pius XII discourses. I just got this quote out of a book.
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