• Mystici Corporis Christi (The Mystical Body of Christ) is an encyclical issued by Pope Pius XII on 29 June 1943 during World War II. Its main topic is...
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    constitution Munificentissimus Deus. His forty-one encyclicals include Mystici Corporis Christi, on the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ; Mediator Dei on...
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    beginning of the Third Reich." In 1943, Pope Pius XII issued the Mystici corporis Christi encyclical, in which he condemned the practice of killing the disabled...
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  • ancient customs and laws. Pope Pius XII stated in his encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi those reforms were intended to establish Eastern Catholics as equal...
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    According to that iconographic tradition, the Latin encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi officially stated: She it was through her powerful prayers obtained...
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    address, he denounced race murders, and in his 1943 encyclical Mystici corporis Christi, he denounced the murder of disabled people. In the post-war period...
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    Jesus Christ), and baptism of blood (martyrdom). In his encyclical Mystici corporis Christi of June 29, 1943, Pope Pius XII spoke of baptism and profession...
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    used as the first words, and so as the title, of the encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi of Pope Pius XII. In that document, Pope Pius XII in 1943 states...
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  • principles of justice and true peace. In 1943, Pius issued the Mystici corporis Christi encyclical, in which he condemned the practice of killing the disabled...
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  • which the Church of Christ is (Latin est) the Catholic Church. Mystici corporis Christi states: "this true Church of Jesus Christ" and "the Mystical Body...
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    and the development of a full Christology, e.g. as in Pius XII's Mystici corporis Christi and John Paul II's Redemptoris Mater. Popes were highly important...
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  • supernatural organism, identifying the Church, as in the encyclical Mystici corporis Christi of Pope Pius XII, with the Mystical Body of Christ. In Catholic...
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    what was the right thing to do and then to do it. The encyclical Mystici corporis Christi from Pope Pius XII (1943) holds that Mary was also sinless personally...
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    the theological framework for future encyclical letters such as Mystici corporis Christi (1943). The encyclical laments the destruction of Poland, denounces...
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    elements of it. As referenced in Pope Pius XII's 1943 the encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi, her fiat gave consent for a spiritual marriage between the Son...
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    Pope John Paul II, in Redemptoris Mater, 51 See Pope Pius XII's Mystici corporis Christi; John Henry Newman: Mariology Is Christology in Vittorio Messori...
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    other media to speak out against atrocities like race murders. In Mystici corporis Christi (1943) he denounced the murder of the handicapped. A denunciation...
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  • private lobbying of government ministers. After Pius XII's 1943 Mystici corporis Christi encyclical (which condemned the killing of the disabled amid the...
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  • derives his supremacy over the Church. The 1943 papal encyclical Mystici corporis Christi further describes the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ. Thus...
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    of Jesus Rosary" (vita Christi Rosarium). However, in 1977, a theologian from Trier named Andreas Heinz discovered a vita Christi rosary that dated to 1300...
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  • time, especially as evidenced in Pope Pius XII's 1943 encyclical Mystici corporis Christi, this phrase was typically used to refer to the Church as the "mystical...
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    to some fundamental observations." Mystici corporis Christi Later in the war Pius issued Mystici corporis Christi (29 June 1943) on the subject of the...
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    Christ. As recently as 1943, Pope Pius XII stated in his encyclical Mystici corporis Christi: By the death of our Redeemer, the New Testament took the place...
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    Alone. Pope John Paul II, Redemptoris Mater, 51. Pope Pius XII, Mystici corporis Christi; John Henry Newman: Mariology is always christocentric, in Michael...
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  • Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ (Latin: Congregatio Legionariorum Christi; also Legion of Christ) is a Roman Catholic clerical religious order made...
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    claims that this "new ecclesiology" contradicts Pope Pius XII's Mystici corporis Christi and other papal documents. The SSPX denounces a teaching on collegiality...
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    1000 messages, during his almost 20-year pontificate. The encyclicals Mystici corporis and Mediator Dei advanced the understanding of membership and participation...
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  • encyclical Mit brennender Sorge of Pope Pius XI, followed in 1943 by Mystici corporis Christi of Pope Pius XII which condemned forced conversions, the murder...
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    Councils Ecumenism Four marks One true church Catholic Infallibility Mystici Corporis Christi People of God Three states Subsistit in In canon law Sacraments...
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    Councils Ecumenism Four marks One true church Catholic Infallibility Mystici Corporis Christi People of God Three states Subsistit in In canon law Sacraments...
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