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  Pope Pius IX - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pope Pius IX Because the conclave was deadlocked, liberals and moderates decided to cast their votes for Mastai-Ferreti – a move that was certainly contrary to the general mood throughout Europe.
Pius IX escaped in disguise to Gaeta on November 24, leaving Rome to the radicals and the mob.
Pope Pius IX Outside the loss of territory in Italy the rights of the Church were reduced across Europe, with Piedmont leading the way (Pius condemned them repeatedly, in allocutions in 1850, 1852, 1853 and 1855).
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 Pope Pius IX
But Pius IX lacked the courage and perspicacity to draw the inevitable conclusions from these premises; and the higher clergy at Rome were naturally opposed to a policy which, by laicizing the administration, would have deprived them of the power and privileges they had so long enjoyed.
Pius was carried away at first on the flood-tide of excitement, and seemed, after his proclamation of the 30th of March, on the point of conferring his blessing upon the war against Austria.
Among the most important acts of Pius IX must be counted his proclamation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, by the bull Ineffabilis Deus, on the 8th of December 1854.
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 Pope Pius IX   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Public disorder grew with repeated the Prime Minister was murdered (November 15) and the Pope was denounced and by a mob in the Quirinal.
Pius escaped in disguise to Gaeta on November 24 leaving Rome to the radicals and mob.
The pope who beatified Pius was John Paul II who in March 2004 overtook Pius' successor Leo XIII to become the longest serving pope Pius.
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 PIUS IX
Refused admission to the pope's noble guards because of epileptic attacks, he turned to the study of theology, and when his epilepsy passed away, Giovanni was ordained a priest.
The greatest event of the pontificate of Pius IX was the Vatican Council.
Pius had to adjourn the council in the summer of 1870 owing to the outbreak of the FrancoPrussian War.
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 Pope Pius IX
Pope Pius IX Beatification and canonization in the Church involve judgments of sanctity on the merits and holiness of an individual’s life.
Pius IX was considered a friend and protector of the Jews during the early years of his pontificate.
Ascribing to Pius IX a consistent and driving political philosophy or a political agenda separate from the Church, is to misunderstand the man. Even his loyalty to the Papal States was not a temporal matter.
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 Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, 1792-1878)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pius IX (Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, 1792-1878) The longest-reigning pope, who played an important part in 19th century Italian and European developments, shaping the character of the Catholic church and the papacy prior to Vatican II, was born into a family of the lower nobility in Senigallia.
Pius reestablished the hierarchy in England in 1850 and that in the Netherlands in 1853, while his devotion to Mary led him to favor the proclamation of the immaculate conception (December 8, 1854).
Pius was convinced that this miraculous event was due to the intervention of the holy mother.
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 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Pope Pius IX
The future Pope Pius IX was born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti in Senagallia in the Papal States, the ninth child of a minor count in 1792.
In 1797, Pope Pius VI was forced by the French to accept the virtual destruction of the Papal States, the “patrimony of St. Peter” that the popes had ruled for over a thousand years.
Pius IX had instituted reforms in the government of the Papal States that were promising, and in 1848 he established elected municipal government in Rome.
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 Inquiring Minds: David Kertzer on Pope Pius IX (GSJ of Sept. 22, 2000)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pius IX, the longest reigning pope in Church history (1846-78), was a fierce opponent of modernity and a strident foe of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press.
The argument for his beatification is that Pius IX was a personally pious man, entirely devoted to the Church, and that everything he did was motivated by devotion to what he perceived as the welfare of the Church.
It is odd because, while Pius IX stood for opposition to modern times and hostility toward all other religions, John XXIII is known for undoing his work by trying to bring the Church into harmony with such doctrines as the belief in basic human rights and, especially, championing the respect of other religions.
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 Pope Pius IX -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pius IX, born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti (May 13, 1792 – February 7, 1878), was Pope for a record pontificate (not counting the Apostle St.
By early 1848, public disorder had forced Pius IX to concede a lay ministry and a constitution, although he held fast against war with Austria (April 1848).
Pope Pope John Paul II (1978–2005) declared him venerable on July 6, 1985, and beatified him on September 3, 2000.
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 Jewish Groups to Protest Pius IX's Beatification
Polish-born Pope John Paul is due to beatify Pius IX, the last ''Pope King'' who reigned from 1846 to 1878 with the 20th century reformist Pope John XXIII on Sunday.
Pius, who adamantly opposed religious tolerance and defined the doctrine of Papal infallibility, referred to Jews as ``dogs'' and once had a Jewish boy kidnapped from his home, forcing him to be brought up as a Roman Catholic.
Pius was the last pope to have temporal power over large parts of central Italy and presided over the loss of territories known as the Papal States when the country was unified in 1870.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Pius IX
Pius VII appointed him spiritual director of the orphan asylum popularly known as "Tata Giovanni", in Rome, and in 1823 sent him, as auditor of the Apostolic delegate, Mgr Muzi, to Chile in South America.
In vain did Pius IX protest against such outrages in his allocutions of 1850, 1852, 1853, and finally in 1855 by publishing to the world the numerous injustices which the Piedmontese government had committed against the Church and her representatives.
The concordat which Pius IX had concluded with Russia in 1847 remained a dead letter, horrible cruelties were committed against the Catholic clergy and laity after the Polish insurrection of 1863, and all relations with Rome were broken in 1866.
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 Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology: Pius IX
Pius IX was born Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti the ninth and last child of Count Girolamo Mastai-Ferretti and Caterina Solazzi in 1792.
Pius warns that the enemy “would even trample underfoot the rights both of the sacred and of the civil power” (13) and that this is the goal of Bible Societies who commit the crime of spreading the vernacular bible throughout the world with unauthorized commentaries containing “perverse explanations” (14).
Pius adds with a touch of paranoia that “amid so great a conspiracy against Catholic interests and this Apostolic See…it is necessary to approach with confidence the throne of grace” (9), thus further signaling his move toward the inner spiritual realm and away from the world, which to him seems nearly overrun by evil everywhere.
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Pius steadfastly refused calls from numerous heads of state including Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, President Ulysses S. Grant of the USA, and Emperor Napoleon III of France to return the child to his parents.
Pius had the longest reign in the history of the post-apostolic papacy, celebrating his silver jubilee in 1871.
The pope who beatified Pius IX was John Paul II, who in March 2004 overtook Pius' successor Leo XIII to become the longest serving pope after Pius.
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 Catholic Insight : Christian Jewish : Was Pope Pius IX anti-semitic?
Pius IX did not defend the Papal States out of love of power but because he was unwilling to allow the Papacy to become the footstool of Italian or European politicians.
Even more than Pius IX, he was a holy man who suffered immensely because the barbaric events around him spurned the voice of Church and God-as, of course, today's society spurns that of Pope John Paul II on the dignity of life, especially that of the unborn.
To think that Pope Pius XII could have stopped the onslaught against the Jews is a form of lunacy.
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 Pope Pius IX: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pius IX was the fourth son of Girolamo Mastai-Ferretti, gonfalonier of Senigallia, and the countess Caterina Solazzi.
For a time Pius continued to endeavour to steer a middle course, claiming in his address to the cardinals of April 29 that he was a disinterested spectator of the revolutionary activities sweeping Italy and that his program of reform was merely the fulfillment of the program long pressed upon the papacy by the powers.
Pius was content in reply to point out that on these two points he was running counter to authoritative pronouncements of Pius VI and Gregory XVI.
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 ~The Life of Pope Pius IX~ Elected Pope.
Finally, when Pope Pius IX granted a Civic Guard for Rome, even Cardinal Gizzi resigned, realizing what the Pope, in his credulous enthusiasm did not see, that putting arms in the hands of the people was tantamount, at that time, to arming the revolutionaries.
Ubi primum, given in secret consistory on the seventeenth of December, 1847, Pope Pius IX showed himself deeply distressed that he should have been declared to be Liberal in matters of the Faith.
Pope Pius IX had already, in his first encyclical, Qui pluribus, of November 9, 1846, renewed the condemnations of his predecessors against "those baneful secret sects who have come forth from the darkness for the ruin and the devastation of the Church and State," and in the same encyclical he condemned:
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 RELIGION: Pope Pius IX, Liberation Theology and Latin America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pope John Paul II succeeded John Paul I, who was Pope for only 34 days; he won general affection by his kind, folksy manner and thereby changed the whole style of the Church.
Pope John Paul II, the product of a strict ecclesiastical education, has actively cultivated popularity; he was surprised and dismayed when his beatification of Pius IX created a storm which drowned our the approval of the beatification of John Paul 1.
Pius IX was viewed by Catholics as a political prisoner, the kind International Amnesty pleads for today.
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ADL Statement on Beatification of Pope Pius IX New York, N.Y., September 3, 2000 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed concern at the Vatican’s beatification of Pope Pius IX, who was responsible for the 1858 abduction of a six-year old Jewish child.
Pius was responsible for the case of Edgardo Mortara, who at the age of six was abducted from his family in Bologna and taken to the Vatican by Papal police after it was reported that the Jewish child has been secretly baptized.
As a result, Pius blamed Rome’s Jews for what he believed was a widespread Protestant conspiracy to defeat the papacy and levied medieval restrictions on the community.
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Pope Pius IX convoked Vatican Council I (1869-70).
In his 32 years as Vicar of Christ, Pius IX fostered a centralized ecclesiology with the papacy at its heart, and stood against shibboleths of modernity.
It's said that in scheduling the beatifications of John XXIII and Pius IX together, the Vatican sought the ecclesial equivalent of a balanced ticket.
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 Pope Pius IX
Feb. 7, 1878, Rome), head of the Roman Catholic Church whose pontificate (1846-78) was the longest in history and was marked by a transition from liberalism to conservatism.
Victor Emanuel, having been aided by Garibaldi, a 33° Mason, in overthrowing the temporal power of the papacy and establishing religious and constitutional liberty in Italy, was informed that the Pope, when a young man, had been Initiated, Passed and Raised in a Masonic lodge.
Pius IX was found guilty, expelled, and the proclamation of his expulsion, signed by Victor Emanuel, then king of Italy and grand master of Masons in that country, was sent all over the Masonic world."
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 Pope Pius IX’s Controversial Beatification   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
-century Pope, a move that displeased the Jewish community because he was the last pope to confine Jews to the ghetto.
Pius IX reigned from 1846 to 1878, the longest tenure in the church’s history.
Pope John Paul II felt that "beatifying a son of the church does not celebrate particular historic choices that he has made, but rather points him out for imitation and for veneration for his virtue." Supporters of the decision argue that Pius’s actions should not be judged through the lens of the 21
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