Pope Pius XI

Our Predecessor of happy memory, Leo XIII, admiring the timely opportuneness of the devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, said very aptly: “When in the days near her origin, the Church was oppressed under the yoke of the Caesars the Cross shown on high to the youthful Emperor …

The human race has always felt the need of a priesthood: of men, that is, who have the official charge to be mediators between God and humanity, men who should consecrate themselves entirely to this mediation, as to the very purpose of their lives, men set aside to offer to …

The Church founded by the Redeemer is one, the same for all races and all nations. Beneath her dome, as beneath the vault of heaven, there is but one country for all nations and tongues; there is room for the development of every quality, advantage, task and vocation which God …

We now have the joy to celebrate the Third Centenary of the entrance into Heaven of another great Saint, remarkable not only for his sublime holiness of life but also for the wisdom with which he directed souls in the ways of sanctity. This Saint was no less a person …

Perhaps never in the past have we seen, as we see today, the minds of men so occupied by the desire both of strengthening and of extending to the common welfare of human society that fraternal relationship which binds and unites us together in consequence of our common origin and …

Our Lady of the Rosary - Monastery of Sts. Dominic and Sixtus, Rome More than once have We asserted – and We recently repeated this in the Encyclical Letter Divini Redemptoris – that there is no remedy for the ever-growing evils of our times except a return to Our Lord …