Pope Pius XI Quotes
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.
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.
It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.
Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.
Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.
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.
One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry
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 reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.
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.
Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.
No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.
Christ's commandment to hear the Church . . . is binding on all men, in every period, and every country.
It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.
"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.
We must therefore take account of this changeable nature of things and of human institutions and prepare for them with enlightened foresight.
A man had better study what a human being is, because he's marrying one - assuming that merely being one has not been sufficient stimulus to that study.