List of Encyclicals of Pope Pius X
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This article contains a list of Encyclicals of Pope Pius X. Pope Pius X
issued 17 Papal Encyclical
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Pope Pius X
Pope Saint Pius X , born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was the 257th Pope of the Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. He was the first pope since Pope Pius V to be canonized. Pius X rejected modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox...
issued 17 Papal Encyclical
Encyclical
An encyclical was originally a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Catholic Church. At that time, the word could be used for a letter sent out by any bishop...
s during his reign as Pope
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| No. | Title (Latin Latin Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and... ) | Title (English English language English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria... translation) | Subject | Date |
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| 1. | E Supremi E Supremi E Supremi was a papal encyclical issued by Pope Pius X on October 4, 1903. This was the first encyclical issued by the pontiff. He expressed his deep feelings of unworthiness by quoting the plight of Anselm of Canterbury. The pope saw the current age as wracked with troubles and even thought... |
On the Restoration of All things in Christ | 4 October 1903 | |
| 2. | Ad Diem Illum Laetissimum Ad Diem Illum Ad diem Illum Laetissimum is an encyclical of Saint Pope Pius X on the Immaculate Conception, Given at Rome in St. Peter's on the second day of February, 1904, in the first year of his Pontificate. It is issued in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the dogma of the Immaculate conception... |
On the Immaculate Conception Immaculate Conception The Immaculate Conception of Mary is a dogma of the Roman Catholic Church, according to which the Virgin Mary was conceived without any stain of original sin. It is one of the four dogmata in Roman Catholic Mariology... |
2 February 1904 | |
| 3. | Iucunda Sane | On Pope Pope The Pope is the Bishop of Rome, a position that makes him the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church . In the Catholic Church, the Pope is regarded as the successor of Saint Peter, the Apostle... Gregory the Great Pope Gregory I Pope Gregory I , better known in English as Gregory the Great, was pope from 3 September 590 until his death... |
12 March 1904 | |
| 4. | Acerbo Nimis | On Teaching Christian Doctrine | 15 April 1905 | |
| 5. | Il Fermo Proposito | On Catholic Action in Italy | 11 June 1905 | |
| 6. | Vehementer Nos Vehementer Nos Vehementer Nos was a papal encyclical promulgated by Pope Pius X on February 11, 1906. Occasioned by the French law of 1905 providing for the separation of church and state, it denounced the proposition that the state should be separated from the Church as "a thesis absolutely false, a most... |
On the French Law of Separation 1905 French law on the separation of Church and State The 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and State was passed by the Chamber of Deputies on 9 December 1905. Enacted during the Third Republic, it established state secularism in France... |
11 February 1906 | |
| 7. | Tribus Circiter Tribus Circiter Tribus Circiter is an encyclical of Pope Pius X on the Mariavites or mystic priests, a pseudo-monastic Polish society. It was given at Rome, at St. Peter's, the fifth day of April, 1906, in the third year of his Pontificate... |
On the Miravites: Mystic Priests of Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north... |
5 April 1906 | |
| 8. | Pieni L'animo | On the Clergy in Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and... |
28 July 1906 | |
| 9. | Gravissimo Officii Munere | On French Associations of Worship | 10 August 1906 | |
| 10. | Une Fois Encore | On the Separation of Church and State Separation of church and state The concept of the separation of church and state refers to the distance in the relationship between organized religion and the nation state.... |
6 January 1907 | |
| 11. | Pascendi Dominici Gregis Pascendi Dominici Gregis Pascendi dominici gregis was a Papal encyclical letter promulgated by Pope Pius X on 8 September 1907.The pope condemned Modernism, and a whole range of other principles described as "evolutionary", which allowed change to Roman Catholic dogma... |
On the Doctrine of the Modernists Modernism Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society... |
8 September 1907 | |
| 12. | Communium Rerum | On St. Anselm of Aosta | 21 April 1909 | |
| 13. | Editae Saepe | On St. Charles Borromeo | 26 May 1910 | |
| 14. | Notre Charge Apostolique Notre Charge Apostolique Notre Charge Apostolique was a papal encyclical promulgated by Pope Pius X on August 15, 1910. The Pope took issue with what he viewed as the socialist leanings of the Catholic 'Le Sillon' movement of Marc Sangnier.... |
“Our Apostolic Mandate” | On socialist doctrines of the Sillon movement Le Sillon Le Sillon was a French political and religious movement founded by Marc Sangnier which existed from 1894 to 1910... |
15 August 1910 |
| 15. | Iamdudum | On the Law of Separation in Portugal Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the... |
24 May 1911 | |
| 16. | Lacrimabili Statu | On the Indians of South America South America South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east... |
7 June 1912 | |
| 17. | Singulari Quadam | On Labour Organisations | 24 September 1912 |