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The Pope's homily was addressed to all humanity because for the Church "no one is a stranger, no one is excluded, no one is distant". [190] Mass was followed by a series of messages (in French) addressed to various categories of people, including heads of government, women, workers, young people, and the poor and sick.
It rejected socialism as well as laissez-faire capitalism, advocating the regulation of working conditions. It argued for the establishment of a living wage and for the right of workers to form trade unions. [1] Pope Pius XI carried the theme forward in 1931 in his encyclical Quadragesimo anno ("Forty years later").
Pope Pius' opening address was frank and detailed in cataloguing the shortcomings and faults of the luxurious lifestyle of the cardinals, and their activities on behalf of monarchs rather than the church: "Your lifestyle is such that you would appear to have been chosen, not to govern the state, but called to enjoy pleasures.
Pius XI: 1922: Periode of Interregnum changes on behalf of American Cardinals De concordia inter codices: Francis: 2016: Changes in canon laws of the Roman Catholic Church [2] Dolentium Hominum: John Paul II: 1985: Pastoral care for the sick and erection of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers. Ecclesia Dei: John ...
Pope Francis was “progressively improving” and sitting in an armchair working Friday, following surgery to remove intestinal scar tissue and repair a hernia in his abdominal wall, the Vatican ...
Pope Pius II, who considered him guilty of treachery towards Siena arising from his long-running feud with Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, excommunicated him, declaring him a heretic and attributing to Sigismondo a series of sins (incest, sodomy against his son Roberto and others) which smeared his reputation for centuries.
Exemptions were granted to those who were sick. Pope Pius defined the goal for the Holy Year 1950: to do penance and to pray for the return to Christ of all those who were separated from him. Those who hate God, may see his light. May social justice spread around the globe to ensure that hunger disappears.
Laborem exercens (Latin: Through Work) is an encyclical written by Pope John Paul II in 1981, on human work. It is part of the larger body of Catholic social teaching, which traces its origin to Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum novarum.