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Pope Benedict XV’s activities which were meant to settle the relations between the Catholic Church and other states after the First World War were continued by his successor Pius XI. It was obvious for him due to attitudes radicalization in some European countries, where totalitarian systems were formed and which strived to subdue everything and everyone to the regime. The Pope saw this threat in the Soviet Union which was hostile to any religion. The Pope wanted to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union neighboring states and in this way to stop the spread of communism in European countries where revolutionary atmosphere was present and stirred up. He wanted to protect the faithful of the Church from being pushed to the margins of social life. Good examples of this papal policy are concordats with Latvia, Poland, Romania and Lithuania. Those concordats generally survived till the beginning of the Second World War and till its end.
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This article reviews the most import ant topics in the encyclical of Pius Xi titled Dilectissima nobis in which the Pope expresses his opposition to the persecution of the Catholic Church and to attempts to restrict religious freedom in Spain during the 1930s. The Church was regarded as an enemy of the state and of social progress. The first two sections of the article provide the historical background of Spanish anti-clericalism and its increasing hostility to the Church. The third section shows how legislators successfully took away the Church’s ability to function in society. The fourth section discusses the most important topics in the encyclical Dilectissima nobis. In the last section, the author presents the person of Pope Pius XI in the context of his time. He was an enemy of communist ideology, which enslaved man, and a great defender of human dignity.
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