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2 days ago · Pope Pius IX (Italian: Pio IX, Pio Nono; born Giovanni Maria Mastai Ferretti; 13 May 1792 – 7 February 1878) was head of the Catholic Church from 1846 to 1878. His reign of 32 years is the second longest of any pope in history, behind that of Saint Peter.
2 days ago · Pope Pius IX. Few popes of modern times have presided over so momentous a series of decisions and actions as Pius IX (reigned 1846–78), whose early liberalism was ended by the shock of the Revolutions of 1848.
Jul 17, 2024 · Learn about the remarkable life and papacy of Blessed Pope Pius IX, the second longest-reigning pope in history. He faced political and doctrinal challenges, defined the Immaculate Conception, and convened the First Vatican Council.
1 day ago · Pope Pius XI (Italian: Pio XI), born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti (Italian: [amˈbrɔ:dʒo daˈmja:no aˈkille ˈratti]; 31 May 1857 – 10 February 1939), was the Bishop of Rome and supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to 10 February 1939.
2 days ago · On 20 October 1870, one month after the newly founded Kingdom of Italy had occupied Rome, Pope Pius IX, who then considered himself a prisoner in the Vatican, issued the bull Postquam Dei munere, adjourning the council indefinitely.
Jul 18, 2024 · Pius IX’s successor, Pope Leo XIII, went on to dedicate an encyclical letter to devotion to St. Joseph, “Quamquam pluries.” “Joseph became the guardian, the administrator, and the legal defender of the divine house whose chief he was,” Leo XIII wrote in the encyclical published in 1889.
Jul 18, 2024 · Pope Pius IX declared St. Joseph “Patron of the Universal Church” in 1870, the year the papacy lost most of its temporal power with the fall of the Papal States. His successor, Pope Leo XIII, was the first pope to dedicate an entire encyclical to Joseph, Quamquam Pluries .
