Pope Pius XI Quotes
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This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony between science and…
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Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that it must adapt…
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Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.
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It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth,…
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Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable economic laws and…
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Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world's goods truly conforms to…
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One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry
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It violates right order whenever capital so employs the working or wage-earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary…
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However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient…
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The Rosary is a powerful weapon to put the demons to flight and to keep oneself from sin…If you desire peace in your hearts, in…
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Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall…
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Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.
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This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to govern credit and determine its…
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What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing…
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When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real…
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Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of…
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Among the various supplications with which we successfully appeal to the Virgin Mother of God, the Holy Rosary without doubt occupies a special and distinct…
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In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In the endeavor to…
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These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in the most delicate…
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We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and…
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