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Ad Coeli Reginam
On the Queenship. Pope Pius XII’s love for Mary shines out as he promulgates a new feast in the Church and reminds us that Mary’s title of Queen is “due to the sovereign excellence of her entire being,” who is true Mother of Him Who is King by right, by inheritance and by conquest.
Consecration to Mary
Compiled excerpts from addresses, allocutions, letters and encyclicals of Pope Pius XII on devotion and consecration to Our Lady.
Fulgens Corona
On the Marian Year. Celebrating the first centenary of the definition of the Immaculate Conception, Pope Pius XII proclaims the Marian Year, hoping to obtain, by the united homage offered Our Lady by all Christians, freedom for the Church and peace for the world.
Haurietis Aquas
On devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. May 15, 1956.
Humani Generis
Concerning some false opinions which threaten to undermine the foundations of Catholic doctrine, mentioning in particular evolution and the consequent doubt cast on the reality of angles, creation, original sin and related topics.
Ingruentium Malorum
On the Rosary. “Why the Rosary?” Pope Pius XII has a most fitting answer in this encyclical in which he pleads for the recitation of the Rosary as an effective means of combating the evils of our times.
Mediator Dei
On the Sacred Liturgy. Issued in 1947, this encyclical is a brilliant study of the pre-eminent place of the Sacred Liturgy in the Church, as well as a solemn warning against modern liturgical innovations. If the Pope’s call for true liturgical renewal had been heeded, Catholics would not have accepted the liturgical aberrations of the postconciliar reformers.
Miranda Prorsus
On Cinema, Sound Broadcasting and Television. The Pope outlines the responsibilities and duties of pastors, the faithful, and all involved in the cinema, radio and TV industries, the great advantages and possibilities of these media, some dangers, problems and solutions.
Moral Problems in Fashion Design
Address of Pope Pius XII to the Congress of the Latin Union of High Fashion, November 8, 1957.
Munificentissimus Deus
On the Assumption. The encyclical defending the teachings of the theologians on the Assumption of Mary body and soul into heaven, and the Pontiff’s hopes that its definition will benefit the Church in this age of materialism and forgetfulness of the eternal truths.
Mystici Corporis Christi
On the Mystical Body of Christ. Pope Pius XII explains the doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ. Every Catholic should study it and incorporate its principles into his own life.
Relations with Germany
An allocution delivered after World War II, looking back to the Concordat of 1933, Pius XI’s encyclical, and the after-effects of Nazism upon the Church in Germany.
COLLECTIONS OF PAPAL DOCUMENTS The Popes Against Modern Errors
Sixteen Papal Documents. In 1789, the French Revolution took place and launched a host of religious, political and social errors which the Popes for over 160 years afterward wrote and legislated against. Yet most of these errors have spread and today have filtered down to the common man, with the result that most people now take for granted many fundamental assumptions that are positively false! But almost from the beginning of these errors, the Popes spoke out as with one voice, inveighing against them. Today, as we see these errors bearing evil fruit, many thoughtful Catholics are returning to those Papal documents which condemned these modern errors, to examine what the Popes have said all along about them. Here, in one handy volume, are the best and most famous of those Papal denunciations:
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