Its significance: a tribute on the 50th anniversary of Achille Ratti’s priesthood. Three other events in his vast organization were well pleasing to Pius XI last week: Catholic Hour. At the ...
It was instituted just under 100 years ago, in 1925, by the scholarly pontiff, Pope Pius XI, Achille Ratti (1857-1939), a fierce opponent of fascism who died just before the Second World War broke ...