Mortalium Animos

I denna tid av relativism, nominalism och nihilism är det högeligen lämpligt att minnas påven Pius XI:s ord i encyklikan Mortalium Animos från 1928. Orden äger en uppenbar aktualitet.

So, Venerable Brethren, it is clear why this Apostolic See has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics: for the union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it.