The gathering was to be held in a week and a half in St. Peter’s Basilica, on Feb. 11, 1939. It would mark the 10th anniversary of the Lateran Accords, the historic agreement that Pius XI had struck ...

And, in the 1937 encyclical on atheistic communism Divini Redemptoris, Pius XI placed “the vast campaign of the Church against world communism under the standard of St. Joseph, her mighty ...

Pius XI’s papal reign (1922–39) officially began on 6 February 1922. It may seem an unlikely event to tie into Irish history, but there are a number of compelling reasons as to why it is a ...

Pius XI. is a man of wide learning and many gifts ... The significance of his bestowal of the blessing urbi et orbi from the exterior balcony of St Peter’s, for the first time since the loss of the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Wednesday’s boys 4A quarterfinal round between Highland and St. Pius X marked the fourth meeting of the season between the two squads. The Sartans won the previous ...

Blessed Pius IX’s successor, Pope Leo XIII, went on to dedicate an encyclical letter to devotion to St. Joseph — Quamquam ...