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Pope Pius XI

pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939

9 dated entries naming Pope Pius XI, drawn from 8 separate years between 1922 CE and 1939 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1922February 6 – Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV, to become the 259th pope.source
  • 1925December 11 – Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ the King, is promulgated.source
  • 1929July 25 – Pope Pius XI emerges from the Apostolic Palace, and enters St. Peter's Square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250,000 persons, thus ending nearly 60 years of self-imposed status by the papacy as Prisoner in the Vatican.source
  • 1930December 31 – The Papal encyclical Casti connubii, issued by Pope Pius XI, stresses the sanctity of marriage, prohibits Roman Catholics from using any form of artificial birth control, and reaffirms the Catholic prohibition on abortion.source
  • 1931May 15 – Pope Pius XI issues the encyclical Quadragesimo anno, on the "reconstruction of the social order".source
  • 1932February 11 – Pope Pius XI meets Benito Mussolini in Vatican City.source
  • 1937March 10 (dated March 14 (Passion Sunday)) – The encyclical Mit brennender Sorge ("With burning concern") of Pope Pius XI is published in Germany in the German language. Largely the work of Cardinals von Faulhaber and Pacelli, it condemns breaches of the 1933 Reichskonkordat agreement signed between the Nazi government and the Catholic Church, and criticises Nazism's views on race and other matters incompatible with Catholicism.source
  • 1937March 19 – The encyclical Divini Redemptoris of Pope Pius XI, critical of communism, is published.source
  • 1939March 2 – Pope Pius XII (Cardinal Pacelli) succeeds Pope Pius XI to become the 260th pope, holding office until 1958.source

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