No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist. — Pope Pius XI Catholic Copy Share Image
It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually. — Pope Pius XI Anti semitism 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… — Pope Pius XI Church Copy Share Image
Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership — Pope Pius XI Capitalism Copy Share Image
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism. — Pope Pius XI Catholic Copy Share Image
No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied. — Pope Pius XI Charity Copy Share Image
Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country. — Pope Pius XI Binding 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 Accomplish Copy Share Image
The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep oneself from sin…If you desire peace in… — Pope Pius XI Care Copy Share Image
When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great… — Pope Pius XI Blessing 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 Church 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… — Pope Pius XI Children Copy Share Image
Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority… — Pope Pius XI Accepting Copy Share Image
It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit… — Pope Pius XI Christ Copy Share Image
It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to… — Pope Pius XI Activity Copy Share Image
Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for… — Pope Pius XI Demand 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… — Pope Pius XI Able 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 Accounts 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… — Pope Pius XI Air Copy Share Image
The ultimate consequences of the individualist spirit in economic life are those which you yourselves, Venerable Brethren and Beloved Children, see and… — Pope Pius XI Ambition 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… — Pope Pius XI All things Copy Share Image
If our age in its pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady's Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of… — Pope Pius XI Acquire Copy Share Image
This organic conception of society, the only vital conception, combines a noble humanism with the genuine Christian spirit, and it bears the… — Pope Pius XI Bears 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 Advisable 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… — Pope Pius XI Authority Copy Share Image
This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit… — Pope Pius XI Able 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 Authority Copy Share Image
Among the various supplications with which we successfully appeal to the Virgin Mother of God, the Holy Rosary without doubt occupies a… — Pope Pius XI Appeals Copy Share Image
Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated. — Pope Pius XI Capitalism Copy Share Image
Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods… — Pope Pius XI Catholic Copy Share Image
"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms. — Pope Pius XI Christian 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 Economy Copy Share Image
Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that… — Pope Pius XI Absolutes Copy Share Image
Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought… — Pope Pius XI Catholic Copy Share Image
We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress… — Pope Pius XI Communication Copy Share Image
From it (the Rosary) the young will draw fresh energy with which to control the rebellious tendencies to evil and to preserve… — Pope Pius XI Anxious Copy Share Image
“There is but one way in which the unity of Christians may be fostered, and that is by furthering the return to… — Pope Pius XI Catholic Copy Share Image
If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a… — Pope Pius XI Catholic Copy Share Image
However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet… — Pope Pius XI Direct Copy Share Image
