Section 5 | The Church & the Modern World: Leo XIII to Vatican II
Content
- The Renewal of Catholic Life
- Missionary Expansion
- The Church & the Intellectual World
- St. Pius X’s Reform
- World War I & the Interwar Period
- World War II & the Post-War Era
Recommended Reading
ESSENTIAL READING
Orlandis, J., A Short History of the Catholic Church, (Dublin: Four Courts, 1985), pp. 130-143.
Armenio, P., The History of the Church: Parish Edition, (Downers Grove: MTF, 2014), pp. 204-221.
FURTHER READING
On Missionary Expansion in Africa
Armenio, P., Complete Course, pp. 677-81, 707-9.
On Leo XIII & the Social Doctrine of the Church
Armenio, P., Complete Course, pp. 686-90.
“The Church’s Social Doctrine in Our Time: Historical Notes”, in Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, nn. 85-104. | VIEW
“The Prophetic Value of Rerum Novarum” in Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, nn. 267-9. | VIEW
Leo XIII, Encyclical Letter, Rerum Novarum (On the Condition of the Working Classes), 15 May 1891. | VIEW
Pius X & Modernism
Armenio, P., Complete Course, pp. 703-5.
Pius X, Encyclical Letter, Pascendi Dominici Gregis (On the Doctrines of the Modernists), 8 September 1907. | VIEW
Decree Lamentabili Sane (Syllabus Condemning the Errors of the Modernists), 1907. | VIEW
On World War I & the Interwar Period
Armenio, P., Complete Course, pp. 705-18.
Text of the Lateran Pacts (1929). | VIEW
Pius XI, Encyclical Letter, Iniquis Afflictisque (On the Persecution of the Church in Mexico), 18 November 1926. | VIEW
Pius XI, Encyclical Letter, Acerba Animi (On Persecution of the Church in Mexico), 29 September 1932. | VIEW
Pius XI, Encyclical Letter, Dilectissima Nobis (On the Oppression of the Church in Spain), 3 June 1933. | VIEW
Pius XI, Encyclical Letter, Mit Brenennder Sorge (On the Church and the German Reich), 14 March 1937. | VIEW
Pius XI, Encyclical Letter, Divini Redemptoris (On Atheistic Communism), 19 March 1937. | VIEW
Pius XI, Encyclical Letter, Firmissimam Constantiam (On the Religious Situation in Mexico), 28 March 1937. | VIEW
On World War II & the Post-war Period
Armenio, P., Complete Course, pp. 719-32.
Nguyen Van Thuan, F.X., Testimony of Hope, (Boston: Pauline Books, 2000). Extracts PDF
VIDEOS
Leo XIII – a pope who changed the Church VIEW
A Look at Pius X’s Legacy VIEW
Benedict XVI recalls the life and legacy of St. Pius X VIEW
Find out how Benedict XV tried to stop World War I | Vatican VIEW
Benedict XV: 100 years since his election | Vatican VIEW
Pius XI’s anti-Nazi encyclical, Mit Brennender Sorge, marks its 80th anniversary VIEW
Pope Pius XII & the Holocaust: the Secret Story of the Silent Rescue (27 mins)
For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada, 2012 (2hr 25 mins)