22 Quotes by Pope Pius XI

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.

Catholics can in no way convince themselves that so enormous and unjust an in equality in the distribution of this world’s goods truly conforms to the designs of the all-wise Creator.

What could ever be a sufficient reason for excusing in any way the direct murder of the innocent? This is precisely what we are dealing with here. Whether inflicted upon the mother or upon the child, it is against the precept of God and the law of nature: ‘Thou shalt not kill.’

It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.

Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.

Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.

We lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by their participation in shameful dances.

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.