"If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him to hard work, labor, saving and sobriety today, when so many nations and men have lost everything and all they have le Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII was ordained in the priesthood in 1899. Pius XI made him cardinal in 1929 and he was named papal secretary of state in 1930. In the 1930s Cardinal Pacelli traveled through Europe and he designed the 1933 concordat with Germany, which was an attempt to protect German Catholics against Nazi forces. He was elected Pope in 1939 and declared Rome an open city in 1943. He made use of the Vatican's diplomatic immunity status to protect many from persecution.
