The relations between PopePiusXandRussia were difficult, and the situation of Polish Catholics in Russia did not improve. Tsar Nicolas issued a decree...
PopePiusX (Italian: Pio X; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death...
PopePius XII (born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, Italian pronunciation: [euˈdʒɛːnjo maˈriːa dʒuˈzɛppe dʒoˈvanni paˈtʃɛlli]; 2 March 1876 –...
Archive and international diplomatic correspondence continue. Two Popes served through the Nazi period: PopePius XI (1922–1939) andPopePius XII (1939–1958)...
prepared with Eugenio Pacelli (the future PopePius XII) and Pietro Gasparri during the pontificate of PopePiusX. The new Code of Canon Law is considered...
PopePius IX (Italian: Pio IX, Pio Nono; born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846...
Pope Clement X (Latin: Clemens X; Italian: Clemente X; 13 July 1590 – 22 July 1676), born Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, was head of the Catholic Church...
Nazi-era Catholics PopesPius XI (1922–1939) andPius XII (1939–1958) led the Catholic Church during the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. Around a third...
1569, PopePius V issued the papal bull Consueverunt Romani Pontifices which popularized the rosary. Before the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 Pius V requested...
Ea Semper was an apostolic letter written by PopePiusX in September 1907 that dealt with the governance of the Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholics in the...
of sinners and the liberty and exaltation of the Catholic Church, and a prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel. PopePiusX permitted appending the invocation...
During the pontificate of PopePius XI (1922–1939), the Weimar Republic transitioned into Nazi Germany. In 1933, the ailing President von Hindenburg appointed...
the oldest pope, whose age can be validated, holding office and had the fourth-longest reign of any pope, behind those of St. Peter, Bl. Pius IX (his immediate...
(later PopePius XII) was the secretary of the state of the Vatican, and later he performed the consecration of the world. On October 31, 1942, Pius XII...
also not included such as PopePius XII Church policies after World War II, Persecutions of the Catholic Church andPius XII, and Vatican policies regarding...
served also as Cardinal Secretary of State under Popes Benedict XV and PopePius XI. Gasparri was born on 5 May 1852 in Capovallazza di Ussita, a small...
encyclical Orientalium Dignitas). Leo's successor PopePiusX said that the priests of the newly created Russian Catholic Church should offer the Divine Liturgy...
Pope Paul III, Pope Clement VII, Pope Adrian VI, Pope Leo X, Pope Julius II, PopePius II, Pope Callixtus III, Pope Nicholas V, andPope Eugene IV. The...
1904 and served in a number of posts, as nuncio in France and a delegate to Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. In a consistory on 12 January 1953 PopePius XII...
PopePius XII (r. 1939–1958) created 56 cardinals in two consistories. On both occasions Pius tried to bring the membership of the College of Cardinals...
1903 by PopePiusX Christina von Stommeln (1242–1312), Layperson of the Archdiocese of Cologne (Germany) Beatified: 12 August 1908 by PopePiusX Isnardo...
the bulls of 1604 and 1634 were. In 1911, with the bull Divino Afflatu, PopePiusX made significant changes in the rubrics. PopePius XII radically revised...
PopePius XII's response to the Roman razzia (Italian for roundup), or mass deportation of Jews, on October 16, 1943, is a significant issue relating...
Adolf Hitler had seized power, andPopePius XI accused the Nazi government of sowing 'fundamental hostility to Christ and his Church'. The concordat has...
mo ˈan.no]) (Latin for "In the 40th Year") is an encyclical issued by PopePius XI on 15 May 1931, 40 years after Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum novarum...
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