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4 days ago · In 1849 Pope Pius IX issued the encyclical Ubi primum soliciting the bishops of the church for their views on whether the doctrine should be defined as dogma; ninety percent of those who responded were supportive, although the Archbishop of Paris, Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour, warned that the Immaculate Conception "could be proved ...
3 days ago · Pope Pius VII, bishop of Rome, seated, and Cardinal Caprara. Residence and jurisdiction. The pope's official seat is in the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, considered the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, and his official residence is the Apostolic Palace.
3 days ago · Pope Pius IX ordered the commander of the Papal forces to limit the defence of the city in order to avoid bloodshed. The city was captured on 20 September 1870. Rome and what was left of the Papal States were annexed to the Kingdom of Italy as a result of a plebiscite the following October.
2 days ago · In 1933, Pope Pius XI signed the Reichskonkordat with Nazi Germany, under which bishops swore their loyalty to the Nazi German Reich to preserve church autonomy. However, by 1937 , German Catholic priests read aloud during Palm Sunday Mit brennender Sorge [With burning anxiety], in which Pope Pius denounced the neopagan, Nazi “idolatrous cult” that promoted racial purity (Duffy, 2015 ).
17 hours ago · Pope St. Pius V established the Feast of Our Lady of Victory before his death on May 1, 1572. It has since been renamed the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, as we know it today. “Here is your mother,” Our Lord had said on the cross.
4 days ago · For this reason, St. Robert, though a Jesuit, who had made a promise not to seek any higher office, was made not only an archbishop, but also a cardinal. Pope Clement VIII, on March 3, 1599, said: “We elect this man because the Church of God has not his equal in learning.”
3 days ago · The Vatican archive also contains the original 1530 letter addressed to Pope Clement VII requesting permission for an annulment for King Henry VIII so that he could marry Anne Boleyn. Pope Francis ...
