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2 days ago · During his stay in the Kingdom of Two Sicilies, on 8 September 1849, Pope Pius IX had the experience of a train trip from Portici to Pagani, so he became enthusiastic about this modern invention. When he went back to his seat in Rome, he promoted the growth of a railroad network, starting in 1856 with the Rome and Frascati Rail Road .
5 days ago · Pius IX convened the First Vatican Ecumenical Council, which began in 1869 and was suspended in October 1870 after Rome fell to the forces of Italian unification. During this council, the dogma of papal infallibility was defined. That same year Pope Pius IX declared St. Joseph patron of the Church. Back home
Jun 7, 2024 · With the declaration on that Dec. 8, Pope Pius IX called the day “sacred to the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God and Spouse of the Most Chaste Joseph.”. Now, 150 years later, Father Matthew Spencer, provincial superior of the Oblates of St. Joseph, finds the title “perfectly apt and very important to our times.”.
May 23, 2024 · The film Kidnapped explores the case of Edgardo Mortara, a 6-year-old Jew from Bologna who was secretly baptized, taken from his family, and made a kind of ward to Pope Pius IX. The story, which Kertzer chronicled in a 1997 book, and was for a time in development with Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner, is realized with period aplomb by director ...
Jun 7, 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.
May 24, 2024 · In 1859, a year after the abduction, Pius IX lost most of his territory. In 1860, Fr. Pier Gaetano Feletti, the inquisitor responsible for the kidnapping, was arrested and tried.
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Jun 7, 2024 · Pius IX took advantage of the occasion to emphasize the Church’s universality and the unity between the worldwide episcopate and the Holy See. At the same time, the pope was under attack by liberals throughout Europe, threatened with the plundering of the Papal States, and betrayed by Napoleon III.
