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Top 20 Pope Pius XI Quotes (2025 Update)

Pope Pius XI Quote: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.”

1. “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “The family is more sacred than the state.”

2. “The family is more sacred than the state.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “Let us thank God that He makes us live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.”

3. “Let us thank God that He makes us live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it is her permanent right and duty to safeguard men from currents of thought and influence that jeopardize their eternal salvation.”

4. “Always moved by religious motives, the Church has condemned the various forms of Marxist Socialism; and she condemns them today, because it is her permanent right and duty to safeguard men from currents of thought and influence that jeopardize their eternal salvation.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.”

5. “It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.”

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

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.”

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

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.”

8. “No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.”

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

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.”

10. “However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “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.’”

15. “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.’”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for a livelihood; and to that right corresponds the fundamental obligation to grant private property, as far as possible, to all.”

16. “Therefore the dignity of the human person normally demands the right to the use of earthly goods as the natural foundation for a livelihood; and to that right corresponds the fundamental obligation to grant private property, as far as possible, to all.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry.”

17. “One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.”

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

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.”

19. “Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “26. Above all other reality there exists one supreme Being: God, the omnipotent Creator of all things, the all-wise and just Judge of all men. This supreme reality, God, is the absolute condemnation of the impudent falsehoods of communism. In truth, it is not because men believe in God that He exists; rather because He exists do all men whose eyes are not deliberately closed to the truth believe in Him and pray to Him.”

20. “26. Above all other reality there exists one supreme Being: God, the omnipotent Creator of all things, the all-wise and just Judge of all men. This supreme reality, God, is the absolute condemnation of the impudent falsehoods of communism. In truth, it is not because men believe in God that He exists; rather because He exists do all men whose eyes are not deliberately closed to the truth believe in Him and pray to Him.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “Conscientious parents, aware of their educational duties, have a primal and original right to determine that the children which God has given them should be educated in the spirit of true faith.”

21. “Conscientious parents, aware of their educational duties, have a primal and original right to determine that the children which God has given them should be educated in the spirit of true faith.”

— Pope Pius XI

Pope Pius XI Quote: “There is but one way in which the unity of Christians may be fostered, and that is by furthering the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it; for far from that one true Church they have in the past fallen away. The one Church of Christ is visible to all, and will remain, according to the will of its Author, exactly the same as He instituted it.”

22. “There is but one way in which the unity of Christians may be fostered, and that is by furthering the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it; for far from that one true Church they have in the past fallen away. The one Church of Christ is visible to all, and will remain, according to the will of its Author, exactly the same as He instituted it.”

— Pope Pius XI

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