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Pope Pius XI Was the Silenced Prophet of Peace...

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Few popes have lived in more perilous times than Pius XI and fewer still have shown as much courage in the midst of peril.


There have been many bad popes throughout the history of the Church. Indeed, there have been so many that it is a miracle that the Church has survived them. On the other hand, of course, and thanks be to God, there have been many more good popes than there have been bad. Many of these have been canonized, an assurance to the faithful that they have joined the company of the saints in the Church Triumphant. Others were good and even great but, for whatever reason, have not been canonized.

In recent times, we might think of Leo XIII, who encouraged and reinvigorated the study of the theology and philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, heralding the much-needed neo-Thomistic revival. He also issued Rerum Novarum, the papal encyclical which laid the foundations of the Catholic Church’s social teaching with respect to the twin materialistic evils of Mammon and Marx.

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