Pope Pius XI Quotes

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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 liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.

Pope Pius XI

God, Christian, Jesus

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No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

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Wisdom, Catholic, Politics

Pope Pius XI (1935). “Forty Years After: Reconstructing the Social Order”

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The family is more sacred than the state.

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Family, Sacred, States

Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI)., Pope Pius XI (1997). “Christian Marriage”

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It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.

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Christian, Jew, Anti Semitism

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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 your homes, and in your country, assemble each evening to recite the Rosary. Let not even one day pass without saying it, no matter how burdened you may be with many cares and labors.

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Country, Powerful, Home

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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, i.e., living in the state of grace and in the presence of God, either in innocence or in sincere repentance.

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Grace, Church, Needs

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Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.

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Two, Class, Warfare

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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 in terms.

Pope Pius XI

Christian, Religious, Expression

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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 itself to the varying necessities of the times and the varying dispositions of souls, since it is not contained in an unchangeable revelation, but is, by its very nature, meant to accommodate itself to the life of man.

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Men, Errors, Soul

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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 the designs of the all-wise Creator.

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Wise, Design, Catholic

Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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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 Peter and his legitimate successors.

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Men, Church, Doe

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If our age in its pride laughs at and rejects Our Lady's Rosary, a countless legion of the most saintly men of every age and of every condition have not only held it most dear and have most piously recited it but have also used it at all times as a most powerful weapon to overcome the devil, to preserve the purity of their lives, to acquire virtue more zealously, in a word, to promote peace among men.

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Christian, Powerful, Pride

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Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

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Education, School, Church

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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 allotment, for that reason supplying, so to speak, the lifeblood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands the very soul of production, so that no one dare breathe against their will.

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Hands, Soul, Credit

Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI)., Pope Pius XI. (1931). “On Social Reconstruction: Encyclical Letter”

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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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Vicious, Capitalism, Has Beens

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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 with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child, it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: 'Thou shalt not kill.'

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Mother, Children, Law

Catholic Church. Pope, Pope Pius XI, Gerald C. Treacy, Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI). (1939). “Five great encyclicals: Labor - education - marriage -reconstructing the social order - atheistic communism”

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Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it is her permanent right and duty to safeguard men from currents of thought and influence that jeopardize their eternal salvation.

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Wisdom, Religious, Men

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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 by their participation in shameful dances.

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Girl, Dresses, Modesty

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There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.

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Catholic, Moral, Social

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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 and sordid greed, that hearing the commandments of the Lord, they do all things contrary.

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Loss, Men, Greed

Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI)., Pope Pius XI. (1931). “On Social Reconstruction: Encyclical Letter”

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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 be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

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Wise, Men, Law

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From it (the Rosary) the young will draw fresh energy with which to control the rebellious tendencies to evil and to preserve intact the stainless purity of the soul. Also in it, the old will again find repose, relief, and peace from their anxious cares. And to all those who suffer in any way, especially the dying, may it bring comfort and increase the hope of eternal happiness.

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Evil, Soul, Suffering

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No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

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Wisdom, Justice, Politics

Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.

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Christian, Religious, Errors

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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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Community, Challenges, Inspire

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Born: May 31, 1857
Died: February 10, 1939
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