#pius xi

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VATICAN - POPE PIUS XI.

[disgruntledexplainer]

Pope Pius XI always had this face that looked like he was tired of everyone's shit, and it's hilarious.

I mean, given that he was busy writing a series of encyclicals blasting pretty much all of the major economic and political systems active at the time except democracy and monarchy, I would say he had good reason to look so annoyed.

(he wrote Quadragesimo Anno criticizing capitalism, Divini Redemptoris condemning Communism, Non Abbiamo Bisogno criticizing Fascism, and Mit Brennender Sorge condemning Nazism)

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W imię Prawdy! C. D. 352

7 czerwca 2024 roku ciąg dalszy W tym dniu ważne były dla mnie także poniższe modlitwy: „AKT WYNAGRODZENIA NAJŚWIĘTSZEMU SERCU PANA JEZUSA O Jezu najsłodszy; któremu za miłość bez granic ludzie w niewdzięczny sposób odpłacają tak wielkim zapomnieniem, opuszczeniem i wzgardą, oto my, rzucając się do stóp Twoich ołtarzy, szczególnym hołdem czci pragniemy wynagrodzić tę grzeszną oziębłość i…

[eternal-echoes]

White Nationalism isn’t a traditional Christian value.

From Pope Pius XI’s Mit Brennender Sorge:

released on March 14, 1937, 25 years before Second Vatican Council

[ffcrazy15]

Just saw some fucking fascist nonsense under the “Catholic” tag (as in they literally tagged it with “fascism”) and I would just like to take this moment to remind everyone that you cannot be a fascist and a good Catholic at the same time.

Reject fascism, friends. They are not our allies, not even if you’re a trad. Our tradition is not a dead one, but a living and life-giving one. Fascism is nothing more than the hollowed-out, rotting carcass of a “tradition” that is long dead and should be left in the grave where it belongs.

[mioritic]

Postcard depicting Cardinal Pietro Gasparri, Pope Pius XI, and Benito Mussolini, commemorating the Lateran Treaty of 11 February 1929.

This particular postcard was mailed from the Vatican to Belgium on 14 November 1929. The stamp, from the very first series of Vatican-issued postage stamps, was engraved by Enrico Federici.

Personal collection.

[anastpaul]

(via Quote/s of the Day – 29 October – Let not even one day pass … – AnaStpaul)

[gratiae-mirabilia]

Our God is the Personal God, supernatural, omnipotent, infinitely perfect, one in the Trinity of Persons, tri-personal in the unity of divine essence, the Creator of all existence. Lord, King and ultimate Consummator of the history of the world, who will not, and cannot, tolerate a rival God by His side.

Pope Pius XI, Mit Brennender Sorge

[apenitentialprayer]

And so then only will true cooperation be possible for a single common good, when the constituent parts of society deeply feel themselves members of one great family and children of the same Heavenly Father; nay, that they are one body in Christ, "but severally members of one another" [Rom 12:5], so that "if one member sufferings anything, all the members suffer with it" [1 Cor 12:26].

Pope Pius XI (Quadragesimo Anno, §137)

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About the popes: Leo XIII, Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II

this may or may not inspire a pope tournament one of these days

[disgruntledexplainer]

None but superficial minds could stumble into concepts of a national God, of a national religion; or attempt to lock within the frontiers of a single people, within the narrow limits of a single race, God, the Creator of the universe, King and Legislator of all nations before whose immensity they are "as a drop of a bucket".

-Pope Pius XI, from the encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge (With Deep Anxiety)

[thepastisalreadywritten]

By Devin Watkins

17 December 2023

[tonreihe]

Eric Gill on Quadragesimo Anno.

[eternal-echoes]

“The doctrine of modern Communism, which is often concealed under the most seductive trappings, is in substance based on the principles of dialectical and historical materialism previously advocated by Marx, of which the theoricians of bolshevism claim to possess the only genuine interpretation. According to this doctrine there is in the world only one reality, matter, the blind forces of which evolve into plant, animal and man. Even human society is nothing but a phenomenon and form of matter, evolving in the same way. By a law of inexorable necessity and through a perpetual conflict of forces, matter moves towards the final synthesis of a classless society. In such a doctrine, as is evident, there is no room for the idea of God; there is no difference between matter and spirit, between soul and body; there is neither survival of the soul after death nor any hope in a future life. Insisting on the dialectical aspect of their materialism, the Communists claim that the conflict which carries the world towards its final synthesis can be accelerated by man. Hence they endeavor to sharpen the antagonisms which arise between the various classes of society. Thus the class struggle with its consequent violent hate and destruction takes on the aspects of a crusade for the progress of humanity. On the other hand, all other forces whatever, as long as they resist such systematic violence, must be annihilated as hostile to the human race.”

- Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris

[ultramontanism]

Contrast this with Pope Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (On Fostering True Religious Unity), January 6, 1928:

In what follows he speaks specifically of the “separated children”, Protestants, but the same principles are at work. And if it applies to Protestants, how much more so to unbelievers of all kinds:

Pius XI is decisive :

“This being so, it is clear that the Apostolic See can by no means take part in these assemblies, nor is it in an way lawful for Catholics to give to such enterprises their encouragement or support.”

And he concludes:

The dicastery message and Pius XI’s encyclical are at odds. One professes that religious differences are a gift from God, part of the divine plan!, and the other affirms the perennial truth that there is one revealed religion founded by God, entrusted to one infallible Church, which cannot treat with unbelievers and non-Catholics as if falsehood and error can meet on equal footing; no compromise is possible when defending the Truth.

One of these is a Catholic document, and one is not.

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Charles Davidson: When a Cardinal Capitulates before Trump as a Pope Did before Hitler

Signing of the Reichskonkordat on 20 July 1933 in Rome (Wikimedia) ON JANUARY 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany’s Third Reich. Six months later, on July 20, Pope Pius XI, represented by Cardinal Pacelli who six years later became Pope Pius XII, entered into a Faustian pact with the Nazi Führer. Known as the “Concordat between the Holy See and the German Reich”…