Word: pius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week U.S. Catholics celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first great labor encyclical, Leo XIII's Rerum Novarum ("Concerning New Things"), and the tenth anniversary of its sequel, Pius XI's Quadragesima Anno ("Forty Years After"). In these two documents the Roman Catholic Church said its say about social reform, and with its age-old flexibility took steps to adapt itself to 20th-century social change as it had to feudalism in the Middle Ages and to capitalism after the Reformation...
When Leo wrote in 1891 the great enemy was Socialism; when Pius wrote in 1931 it was Communism; in 1941 it is Naziism-and the Catholic Church seems well aware that some ism or other will always tempt working people away from the creed of Christ the Carpenter unless Christianity has a better message for them. Said the late famed British Monsignor William Francis Barry...
...labor unions and the occasional justification of strikes, urged decent wage standards. State regulation of industry, more equal distribution of wealth, broader ownership of property, and much else that was "radical" then. Forty years later, calling Rerum Novarum "the Magna Charta of all Catholic activity in the social sphere," Pius XI confirmed, developed and enlarged it in Quadragesimo Anno...
...contrast to the bungled recording of the Missa is Victor's album of Mediaeval and Renaissance Choral Music (M739), sung by the Pius X School of Liturgical Music. This is a fascinating collection of early chants and cathedral liturgies, with selections from later masters like Obrecht, Taverner, and Palestrina, beautifully performed by the all-female chorus of the Pius X School...
...Catholic hierarchy was raised to archiepiscopal dignity last week in the person of sandy-haired, twinkling-eyed Most Rev. Robert Emmet Lucey. With all the pomp and circumstance of his church's ritual, he was enthroned as Archbishop of San Antonio. The Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Pope Pius XII's Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., himself installed him. For the dozens of bishops and archbishops, the scores of red-robed monsignori, the hundreds of priests and nuns, the thousands of lay folk who jammed San Fernando Cathedral and the Military Plaza outside, it was a significant...