
Abe Lincoln’s Letter to His ‘Great and Good Friend,’ Pope Pius IX
“I pray God to have Your Holiness always in his safe keeping.”
“I pray God to have Your Holiness always in his safe keeping.”
What can we learn from Blessed Pope Pius IX? Two things: wisdom and mercy.
ANALYSIS: The story of Edgardo Mortara, who was raised as a Catholic — after Pope Blessed Pius IX learned he had been secretly baptized by a nursemaid — has sparked fresh controversy, amid reports about a translation.
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