No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied. — 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… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
In the present state of human society, however, We deem it advisable that the wage-contract should, when possible, be modified somewhat by… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Men will see in their king or in their rulers men like themselves perhaps unworthy or open to criticism, but they will… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Man cannot be exempted from his divinely-imposed obligations toward civil society, and the representatives of authority have the right to coerce him… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
To each, therefore, must be given his own share of goods, and the distribution of created goods, which, as every discerning person… — 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… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
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
