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Pius XI, Pope, to a gathering of parish priests and special Lenten preachers recommended that, during this period, sane and wholesome reading be extolled in their services. Other books should not be extolled. Said the Pontiff: "Favored by marvelous gifts from God for ingenuity and creative fantasy, it is rare that he has not left in his work some traces of impiety and immorality." "He" was, all agreed, famed Italian poet and playwright Gabriele d'Annunzio...
...Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, the 260th successor to St. Peter, Bishop of Rome, might well have been somewhat astonished. He would have found, impudently set forth, only trite commonplaces about himself. The only little known fact concerned his predecessor, Pius X, namely that the "undergarments" of the late Pontiff "were badly worn out and patched in many places...
...Some . . . concede to the Roman Pontiff a certain priority but they claim it is derived, not from divine right, but from the opinion of the majority of the faithful. They declare themselves ready to negotiate with the Roman Church . . . on a basis of equality. . . . How could she tolerate an iniquitous attempt to drag the truth?divinely revealed truth?into a compromise? . . . If we admit this possibility, we must also say that the descent of the Holy Ghost on the apostles, that the permanence of the Holy Ghost in the Church, and even the teaching of Jesus Christ, lost all influence...
...these words but their Latin equivalent were written last week by Pope Pius XI. They, together with many another illuminating the same question, formed the first papal encyclical of the year and the eleventh encyclical composed by the present pontiff. Superficially, they were merely a restatement of the principles which have guided the Roman Catholic Church throughout its entire existence; principle all based upon the principle of permanence. But the encyclical also had a more specific effect; this was to dispose once more and perhaps finally of the plans for a union of the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches, much...
...Protestant as in the Catholic Church. The modern world might have stood in open mouthed surprise at these condemnations had not its breath been taken away by the last sentence of the Syllabus in which all were anathematized who had the temerity to maintain that "the Roman pontiff ought to reconcile himself to progress, liberalism, and modern civilization...