In the first place, it is obvious that not only is wealth concentrated in our times but an immense power and despotic economic dictatorship is consolidated in the hands of a few, who often are not owners but only the trustees and managing directors of invested funds which they administer according to their own arbitrary will and pleasure. This dictatorship is being most forcibly exercised by those who, since they hold the money and completely control it, control credit also and rule the lending of money.
These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in the most … - Pope Pius Xi
These principles with due regard to time and place, must, in accordance with Christian prudence, be applied to all schools, particularly in the most …
- Pope Pius Xi
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism. - Pope Pius Xi
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.
No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist. - Pope Pius Xi
No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.
It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth, i.e., living in the state of grace … - Pope Pius Xi
It is not enough to be a member of the Church of Christ, one needs to be a living member, in spirit and in truth, i.e., living in the state of grace …
Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership. - Pope Pius Xi
Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.
Men will see in their king or in their rulers men like themselves perhaps unworthy or open to criticism, but they will not on that account refuse obe… - Pope Pius Xi
Men will see in their king or in their rulers men like themselves perhaps unworthy or open to criticism, but they will not on that account refuse obe…
In the present state of human society, however, We deem it advisable that the wage-contract should, when possible, be modified somewhat by a contract… - Pope Pius Xi
In the present state of human society, however, We deem it advisable that the wage-contract should, when possible, be modified somewhat by a contract…
Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harm… - Pope Pius Xi
Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harm…
The family is more sacred than the state. - Pope Pius Xi
The family is more sacred than the state.
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