A letter sent by Pius XII to the Archbishop of Westminster, marking the centenary of John Henry Newman's reception into the Catholic Church.

An allocution read on the occasion of the canonization of Pope St. Pius X, in 1954.

April 13, 1941. Asks belligerants to spare civilians, and to refrain from escalating tactics of mass destruction.

On Saint Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria. Encyclical promulgated 9 April, 1944.

Encyclical on the 350th anniversary of the reunion of the Ruthenian Church with Rome. Promulgated 23 December, 1945.

Apostolic Constitution, November 1, 1950, on proclaiming the dogma of the Assumption.

Encyclical addressed to the bishops of France, issued during the centenary year of the apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes.

Encyclical mentions the theory of evolution and is famous for condemning polygenism. Promulgated 12 August, 1950. In HTML.

Encyclical on St. Benedict, promulgated 21 March, 1947.

Proclaiming a Marian Year to commemorate the centenary of the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. Encyclical promulgated on 8 September 1953.

Encyclical on St. Boniface. Promulgated 5 June, 1954.

Encyclical on St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the last of the Fathers. Promulgated 24 May, 1953.

Encyclical promulgated 30 September, 1943. On Biblical studies. HTML, 61K.

Encyclical promulgated on 1 May 1946. Asks the bishops to pray about whether the Assumption of Mary should be defined as dogma.

On Proclaiming the Queenship of Mary. Encyclical promulgated on 11 October 1954.