English: Papal Coat-of-Arms of Pope Pius XI.
Français: Armoiries du pape Pie XI: Coupé en 1 d’or
à l’aigle de sable et en 2 d’argent à trois besants de gueules.
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“Mortalium Animos” (“The Minds of Mortals”) is a Papal Encyclical promulgated in 1928 by Pope Pius XI on the subject of Religious Unity, condemning certain presumptions of the early Ecumenical Movement and confirming that the unique Church Founded by Jesus Christ is The Catholic Church.
A movement for Religious Unity had been developing in liberal Protestant circles since the Late-19th-Century and Early-20th-Century.
Pope Leo XIII recognised this in his 1896 Encyclical “Satis Cognitum” (Sufficiently Understood”), in which he discoursed at some length on Unity as a mark of The Catholic Church.
Papal Coat-of-Arms of Pope Leo XIII.
Blazon:
Azure, a pine tree proper, debruised by a fess argent,
planted on a plain of the same accompanied in quarter
francs of an estoile fulgent Or chief, and in base two
fleurs-de-lis of the second.
Blazon Reference:
John Woodward (1894) “Capter IX / Popes / Arms of the
Popes from 1144-1893” in A treatise on ecclesiastical heraldry, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom: W. and A.K. Johnston, p. 167 ISBN: 0-524-05339-1. OCLC: 690705111.
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In “Mortalium Animos”, Pope Pius XI restates Traditional Catholic Doctrine, that The Church enjoys a visible Organic Unity, which, because it is Divinely Constituted, is Divinely Protected.[1]
Pope Pius XI rejected the hope:
Pope Pius XI rejected the hope:
“That the nations, although they differ among themselves in certain Religious matters, will, without much difficulty, come to agree as brethren in professing certain Doctrines, which form as it were a common basis of the Spiritual Life.
“For which reason ,conventions, meetings and addresses are frequently arranged by these persons . . . Certainly, such attempts can no-wise be approved by Catholics, Founded as they are on that false opinion which considers all Religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy, since they all in different ways manifest and signify that sense which is inborn in us all, and, by which, we are led to God and to the obedient acknowledgment of His Rule.
“Not only are those who hold this opinion in error and deceived, but, also in distorting the idea of True Religion, they reject it, and, little by little. turn aside to naturalism and atheism, as it is called; from which it clearly follows that one who supports those who hold these theories, and attempts to realise them, is altogether abandoning the Divinely Revealed Religion”.[2]
Pope Pius XI understood this idea that all Religions are just varying (and fallible) human expressions of a natural Religious impulse or instinct.
It was one of the fundamental errors of that Modernism which had been so recently condemned by Pope Saint Pius X in his Encyclical “Pascendi Dominici Gregis”.[3]
English: Papal Coat-of-Arms of Pope Saint Pius X.
Español: Escudo del papa Pío X: De azur, un ancla de tres brazos de sable posada sobre un mar de plata y azur surmontada con una estrella de oro, un jefe de plata con el león leopardado alado y nimbado, sosteniendo con la pata anterior derecha un evangelio abierto con el texto “PAX TIBI MARCE EVANGELISTA MEUS”, todo de oro y letras de sable.
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He saw the current movement towards Unity “as nothing else than a Federation, composed of various communities of Christians, even though they adhere to different Doctrines, which may even be incompatible one with another”.[4]
Pope Pius XI stated that The Church does not permit Catholics to take part in the assemblies of Non-Catholics.[5]
Pope Pius XI stated that The Church does not permit Catholics to take part in the assemblies of Non-Catholics.[5]
“To act otherwise, would, in her judgment, be disloyalty to her Founder and to The Truth which He has given into her care”.[1]
Pius welcomed separated brethren, but stated what was and what was not possible regarding theological differences in dialogues with Non-Catholics.[6]
