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  Pope Pius XI information - Search.com
The Pope judged that it was folly for the French Church to continue to tie its fortunes to the unlikely dream of a monarchist restoration, and found the movement's tendency to defend the Catholic religion in merely utilitarian and nationalistic terms, as a vital contributing factor to the greatness and stability of France, unorthodox.
Pius XI thus became a head of state (albeit the smallest state in the world), the first Pope who could be termed as such since the Papal States fell after the unification of Italy in the 19th century.
Pius XI responded by issuing in 1937 the encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge condemning the Nazi ideology of racism and totalitarianism and Nazi violations of the concordat.
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  Pope Pius XI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pius XI thus became a head of state (albeit the smallest state in the world), the first Pope who could be termed as such since the Papal States fell after the unification of Italy in the 19th century.
Pius XI responded by issuing in 1937 the encyclical Mit Brennender Sorge condemning the Nazi ideology of racism and totalitarianism and Nazi violations of the concordat.
Pius XI was buried in the crypt at St.
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 Pope Pius XI and the European Fascists
Italy, in chaos and near anarchy when Pope Pius XI was elected, had risen to be a strong state and was the home of the new political doctrine of fascism.
The problem for Pius was the fact that the church had taken a position against the spread of communist, and it appeared from the rhetoric coming out of Berlin that the Third Reich stood between Russian Bolshevism and the rest of Europe.
Pius XI had the misfortune to back two regimes which in later years came to be associated with brutality and dictatorships in Italy and Spain.
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He was elected Pope on February 6, 1922 and took the name Pius XI, carrying on the tradition of St Pius X. Pius was 64-years-old at the time of his coronation, which surprised many people who met him for the first time.
Pius XI also encouraged reconciliation with the Eastern Orthodox Churches and opposed the Protestant ecumenical movement in his goal of Christian unity.
Pius XI also recognized communism as the greatest long-term threat to the world, but also wrote an encyclical condemning Fascism for its "pagan worship of the state".
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 Pope Pius XI
Pius' pontificate soon witnessed the rise to power of Benito Mussolini, who signed (Feb. 11, 1929) with him the Lateran Treaty that allowed the existence of the independent Vatican City state, over which the pope ruled.
Pius further agreed that a pope would intervene in foreign affairs not as head of a sovereign state but as head of the church.
However, the encyclical was not published by Pius XI’s successor, Pope Pius XII, in fear of angering the Nazis and thus, endangering the Catholic community of Germany.
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 Patron Saints Index: Pope Pius XI
Appointed one of the college of doctors of the Ambrosian Library, Milan in 1888, and won fame for his studies in paleography.
Papal legate to Poland in 1918 under Pope Benedict XV; put the Church on good terms with the Polish government, and made some inroads with the Bolsheviks in Russia.
Pius loved technology, and sought ways for it to benefit the Church.
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 Pope Pius XI: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Pope Pius XI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pope Pius XI In 1929, the pope supervised the signing of the Lateran Treaties with the Italian government under Mussolini, which was intended to end the dispute that had existed between the Roman Catholic Church and the Kingdom of Italy over the former Papal States, and in particular Rome.
As a consequence Pius issued the encyclical in 1931, and another encyclical of the same year — Quadragesimo Anno — which dealt with global economic issues.
Coat of Arms of Pope Pius XI The concordat also entailed an agreement with Italy that provided for monies being transferred to the Church to aid with the transition and intended as a compensation for the loss of the territories laid claim to by the Church (estimated to be around 700 million lire).
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 Pius XII-FAQs
The general charge against Pope Pius XII is that he maintained a “continued attitude of silence” in the face of Nazism and the horror of the Holocaust.
Pope Pius XII was not silent in the face of Nazism, either before he was elected pope in 1939 or during the war years.
It is argued that Pope Pius XII killed the encyclical because of that condemnation.
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 The Religion Report: 28 May  2003  - The Secret Encyclical of Pope Pius XI
But after the death of Pius XI in February 1939, the draft encyclical was shelved, and until recently the Vatican was still denying that it existed.
Pope Pius XI, Achille Ratti, was Bishop of Rome from 1922 to 1939, and he may be the most underrated Pope of the 20th century.
Pius XI was also a librarian, he read books, and he was fascinated by a book about racism against fls in the United States written by a young American Jesuit, Father John LaFarge.
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 Vatican coins: Pope Pius XI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He taught in the Milan seminary, in 1888 was appointed as one of the college of doctors of the Ambrosian Library in Milan, and in 1907 he was made chief librarian.
Nevertheless, the Fascist government and the pope were in open disagreement over the restriction of the activities of the Catholic Action; this culminated in a strong papal letter (Non abbiamo bisogno, 1931), showing the impossibility of being at once a Fascist and a Catholic.
In 1937, due to the interference by the Nazis in Catholic life, the pope denounced the government and the Nationalist Socialist theory in the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge.
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Pope Pius XI was Bishop of Rome from 1922 to 1939.
He was pope during the 'roaring twenties' as well as during the Great Depression of the thirties.
One might say that with Pius' encyclical Catholic social teaching as a tradition was born.
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 October 27, 1999 DAILY CATHOLIC TEXT Section One (oct27dc1.htm)
Pope Benedict XV and Pope Pius XI The voters chose as the 32nd selection the Fatima Popes who are, of course, Pope Benedict XV, the 258th successor of Peter and Pope Pius XI, the 259th in the long line of Popes.
Pope Pius X's passing coincided with the beginning of World War I and most of Benedict's pontificate was burdened by war and the aftermath of war.
Pius XI had truly established that the Papacy was a spiritual reign, not a temporal reign.
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 PIUS XII AND THE JEWS: Pius XI and Pius XII
For Pius XI, and Pius XII, the fundamental errors of modern society were 1) the denial of the natural law as the foundation of all public law, including international law; 2) the deification of the state, and a resultant excessive nationalism; 3) racism, which glorified a mythological purity of race.
Pius XI reiterated traditional Roman Catholic theology: there is only one God, the creator of the universe, who has established laws written in the hearts of men, the natural law.
In the brief period between the death of Pope Pius XI and the election of his successor, the Times reported that “the Jewish issue in Italy is growing more intense and is one of the gravest of the many serious problems being considered by the Cardinals who will enter the conclave.
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 Society Saint Pius X Communicantes Nov 1999 Editorial
The author attempts to justify these unspeakable slanders on the account of a single letter written by Pope Pius Xil in 1919 and an account of a handful of Vatican officials, for whom we prefer to let God be the judge of their intentions.
Pius XII sent by hand, a letter to the Bishops instructing them to lift the enclosures from convents and monasteries so that they could become refuges for the Jews.
Pope Pius XII ordered that the assets of the Vatican be used to ransom Jews from the Nazis, protecting them from immediate deportation from Rome, which would mean an increase of persecutions with its trail of atrocities and death.
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Pope Pius XII was pope from 1939 until 1958.
He was the papal nuncio in Munich and Berlin during the 1920s, and was appointed as Pope Pius XI's secretary of state in 1930.
Pius XII also failed to publish the encyclical of Pius XI, Humani generis unitas (The Unity of the Human Race), after the death of Pius XI.
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 Pope Pius XI and the Jewish Question - Richard L. Rubenstein
Until recently, Achille Ratti, Pope Pius XI (1857--1939), has had fewer critics than his successor, Eugenio Pacelli, Pope Pius XII, whose role during the Holocaust has been the subject of heated controversy for almost four decades.
As a result, Pius XI came to be depicted as the "good pope," firmly opposed to anti-Semitism, in contrast to Pius XII.
Both popes were fully conscious of their historic role as guardians of the church, the most important religious institution in the Western world, in an era of maximum danger.
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 Pope Pius XI - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Pope Pius XI Pius XI, né Achille Ratti, (May 31, 1857 - February 10, 1939) was Pope from February 6, 1922 until February 10, 1939.
In 1929, the pope supervised the signing of the Lateran Treaties with Mussolini's Fascist government.
He accepted the task on the condition that the Pope would not interfere with his investments.
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 Pope Pius XII
Pope Pius XII (born March 2, 1876; died October 9, 1958) was pope from 1939 until 1958.
On March 2, 1939, he was elected to succeed Pius XI as pope.
In 1950, Pius issued an ex cathedra proclamation defining the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
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 CNS STORY: Pope Pius XI saw (radio) wave of the future
Pope Pius XI was fascinated by this "awesome invention," and in the late 1920s he invited the inventor of the radio, Guglielmo Marconi, to build a radio broadcasting station on the grounds of the newly established Vatican City State.
Before radio, the pope's public addresses could only cover the venue at which he was speaking, maybe going a little farther if there was a good echo bouncing off Bernini's colonnade in St. Peter's Square.
During his first visit to Vatican Radio March 3, Pope Benedict XVI said that during World War II the radio let Pope Pius XII offer his "words of comfort, warnings" about the futility of war "and passionate exhortations for hope and peace" in a climate of conflict and fear.
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The draft of the encyclical denouncing racism, together with the address Pius XI planned to present to the Italian bishops on 11 February, the tenth anniversary of the Lateran Accords, were found on the desk of the deceased Pope.
Pius XI was not prepared to forfeit the younger generation to the regime.
Pius XI was scandalized by the abortive Nazi coup of 1934 in Austria.
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Pius XI Italian-born pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
In exchange, the pope recognized the kingdom of Italy and agreed to maintain permanent neutrality in diplomatic and military affairs.
Pius XI passed away at the start of World War II, and was replaced by Pius XII.
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 Pope pius - A Righteous Gentile   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
XI), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (May 31, In 1911, at Pope Pius X's invitation, he moved to the Vatican to become
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 Pope Pius XI 11 December 1925 Feast of Christ the King
Pope Pius XI 11 December 1925 Feast of Christ the King
In fact, the whole of the human race was at the instance of Pope Leo XIII, in the Holy Year 1900, consecrated to the Divine Heart.
We further ordain that the dedication of mankind to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which Our predecessor of saintly memory, Pope Pius X, commanded to be renewed yearly, be made annually on that day.
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XI), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (May 31, 1857 – February 10, 1939), reigned as Pope from February 6, 1922 and sovereign of Vatican City from 1929 until his death on February 10, 1939.
As a consequence Pius issued the encyclical Non Abbiamo Bisogno in 1931, in which he criticised the idea of a totalitarian state and Mussolini's treatment of the Church.
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