Today in 1949, Pope Pius XII Excommunicated All Communist Catholics
On July 13, 1949, the Vatican published the historic Decree Against Communism. Authorized by Pope Pius XII on July 1, the edict declared Catholics who knowingly professed or actively supported atheistic communist doctrines to be excommunicated as apostates from the faith. They couldn’t even read anything about communism. The decree was drafted by the Holy […]
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