#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)

[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.

[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)

[catholic-saint-tournament]

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

[anastpaul]

Quote/s of the Day – 9 June – The Popes on the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Quote/s of the Day – 9 June – “The Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus” and within the Octave of the Sacred Heart – Pentecost III “Learn of the Heart of Godin the Words of God,so that you may ardently longfor eternal things.” St Pope Gregory the Great (540-604)Great Father and Doctor of the Church “In the Sacred Heart,there is the Symboland the express Imageof the Infinite Love of Jesus…

[thepastisalreadywritten]

By Devin Watkins

17 December 2023

[tonreihe]

Eric Gill on Quadragesimo Anno.

[stjohncapistrano67]

[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)

[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

[tabernacleheart]

It has long been a common custom to give to Christ the metaphorical title of "King," because of the high degree of perfection whereby He excels all creatures. So He is said to reign "in the hearts of men," both by reason of the keenness of His intellect and the extent of His knowledge, and also because He is very truth, and it is from Him that truth must be obediently received by all mankind. He reigns, too, in the wills of men, for in Him the human will was perfectly and entirely obedient to the Holy Will of God, and further by His grace and inspiration He so subjects our free-will as to incite us to the most noble endeavors. He is King of hearts, too, by reason of His "charity which exceedeth all knowledge." And His mercy and kindness which draw all men to Him, for never has it been known, nor will it ever be, that man be loved so much and so universally as Jesus Christ.

Pope Pius XI

[apenitentialprayer]

Admittedly, no vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied. Yet even supposing that everyone should finally receive all that is due to him, the widest field for charity will always remain open. For justice alone can, if faithfully observed, remove the causes of social conflict, but can never bring about union of minds and hearts.

Pope Pius XI (Quadragesimo Anno, §137)

[akacatholicism]

The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ

Pope Pius XI, Lux Veritatis, 1931:

37. We spoke more fully, indeed, on this unity of the Catholic religion, a few years ago, in Our Encyclical letter Mortalium animos; still it may be useful to recall the matter briefly here; for the hypostatic union of Christ, solemnly confirmed in the Synod of Ephesus, bears and sets before us the image of that unity with which our Redeemer willed that His mystical body, that is to say the Church, should be adorned; “one body” (I Corinthians xii. 12) “compacted and fitly joined together” (Ephesians iv. 16). For if the personal unity of Christ is the mystical exemplar to which He Himself willed that the union of Christian society should be conformed, every wise man will see that this can only arise, not from any pretended conjunction of many disagreeing among themselves, but from one hierarchy, from one supreme teaching authority, from one law of believing, and from one faith of Christians.