The monthly prayer intentions of Pope Francis are found, for example, [*here*](https://www.popesprayer.va/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/ENG-INTENZIONI-DI-PREGHIERA-DEL-SANTO-PADRE-2024-DEF-1.pdf) . QUESTION: Have the monthly prayer intentions of previous Popes been published somewhere, and if so, where may I find them? I am most interested in those of Ven. Pope Pius XII and his predecessors.

Sr. Pascalina Lehnert , Pope Pius XII 's housekeeper and secretary, wrote in *His Humble Servant* ch. 11: >One example was the beatification process of a very well known founder of a religious order. The proceedings were concluded and waiting for the Pope’s decision. On looking through the documents Pius XII now found some most distasteful words often used by the servant of God, which, however, were in general use in the region where they had been uttered and not regarded as objectionable, as he was assured from various quarters. Pius XII remained deaf to every request and representation. “I cannot,” he said simply. Although all the preparations had already been made, the beatification did not receive the “*Placet Eugenio*.” Who was this "servant of God " and "very well known founder of a religious order"?

Was the Assumption of Mary a belief in the early church? If so, where's the evidence? The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life is a defined dogma of the Catholic Church. On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII, exercising papal infallibility, declared in Munificentissimus Deus that it is a dogma of the Church "that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory." As a dogma, the Assumption is a required belief of all Catholics; anyone who publicly dissents from the dogma, Pope Pius declared, "has fallen away completely from the divine and Catholic Faith." The question is asked because the Bible is silent about this matter.

In _Munificentissimus Deus_ Pope Pius XII defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception: > By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body **and soul** into heavenly glory. I can understand the need to define the fact that the body of the Blessed Mother is in Heaven, but was Mary not already a canonised saint before the document was produced? Even the protestant reformers did not contest the sainthood of Mary.

> If you are looking for direct scriptural proof of this dogma, you will not find any. Mary’s Assumption was not explicitly recorded in Scripture. However, Pope Pius XII formally defined the dogma of the Assumption in his apostolic constitution **[Munificentissimus Deus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munificentissimus_Deus)** on November 1, 1950: "The Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory" (source ) My Question: - What is the Catholic theological basis for the Munificentissimus Deus? If it wasn't recorded in Scripture, and we don't have any archaeological evidence to support it, then what did Pope Pius XII use as a basis?