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Communists. In the most intense portion of his encyclical Pope Pius termed Communists degenerate, cruel, inhuman, impious, nefarious, and many of their works ghastly. "One section of Socialism," declared His Holiness, "has degenerated into Communism. Communism teaches and pursues a two-fold aim: Merciless class warfare and complete abolition of private ownership. And this it does, not in secret and by hidden methods, but openly, frankly and by every means, even the most violent. To obtain these ends, Communists shrink from nothing and fear nothing, and when they have attained power, it is unbelievable, indeed, it seems portentous, how cruel...
...think it necessary to warn upright and faithful children of the Church against the impious and nefarious character of Communism...
...Impious Fascist aviators zoomed low over the Vatican last week, performed the air maneuver known as "Jazzing the Crowd." Vexed indeed was His Holiness Pope Pius XI to be thus interrupted while addressing Italian working girls in famed St. Damasus courtyard...
That the Virgin Mary was never entombed but was taken bodily to Heaven is a belief celebrated in the greatest art and defined by the Catholic Church as "a probable opinion, which it is impious to deny, though not an article of faith...
Detestable and impious to all right-thinking Moslems were the wines, spirits and liqueurs introduced by "progressive" ex-King Amanullah, who was ousted when he went to the further extreme of commanding his women subjects to unveil their faces, his men to put their legs in trousers...