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 ...

Built on land donated by Pope Pius XI to the theologian and physician Agostino Gemelli in 1934, it has become known as the ...

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 ...

By the end of 1922, the figure of Pope Pius XI did not simply represent the highest level of the Roman Catholic Church, he was also the ultimate court of spiritual appeal to both sides.

According to reports, in 1930, the German automaker delivered its first “official” popemobile Pope Pius XI. The vehicle was a Nurburg 460 Pullman that6 featured luxurious silk carpeting and ...

Mercedes has been making Popemobiles for almost 100 years, supplying a Nürburg 460 Pullman Sedan for Pope Pius XI in 1930, and a 300 Landaulet for John XXIII, a 600 Pullman Landaulet and a 300 ...