Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church… Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the whole world, if thereby they suffer the loss of their own souls? What will it profit to teach them sound principles in economics, if they permit themselves to be so swept away by selfishness, by unbridled… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share
For they have always unanimously maintained that nature, rather the Creator Himself, has given man the right of private ownership not only that individuals… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it is her… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
