In pontifical Latin, prepared for him, as always, by his Congregation for Latin Letters, Pope Pius XI last week solemnly flayed Nudism. Speaking before Lenten preachers on the eve of Ash Wednesday ...

Consider the case of Pope Pius XI nearly a century ago. Historian David Kertzer, author of “The Pope At War,” discovered that the ailing Pope Pius XI wrote a speech condemning Italian leader ...

But the Nazis quickly violated its articles. In Lent 1937 Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical "Mit brennender Sorge" (With burning sorrow) with the help of German bishops and Cardinal Pacelli ...

Please refute. Pope Pius XI taught that married couples could use their marriage rights in the infertile periods of the wife (or when there is a defect of nature or age which prevents new life ...

Blessed Pius IX’s successor ... entrusted the Divine Child when Herod loosed his assassins against him,” Pope XI continued. “He won for himself the title of ‘The Just,’ serving thus ...

June 7, 1929 – The Treaty of the Lateran is ratified. Pope Pius XI gives up all claims to the Papal States, and Italy agrees to the establishment of the independent State of Vatican City.