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...Mark on the Church. Pius X was one of the strongest Popes since the Renaissance. He left his mark on the theology of the church by cracking down hard on "modernists," who meant to water down the traditional faith of the church to make it conform to prevailing scientific and rationalist concepts. He left his mark on modern liturgy by stimulating a return to Gregorian chant. He deeply influenced contemporary Catholic life by calling for frequent communion and for the early communion of children, by developing the laymen's movement known as Catholic Action...
Cardinal Mercier of Belgium once said: "If in the days of Luther and Calvin the church had possessed a Pope of the temper of Pius, would Protestantism have succeeded in getting a third of Europe to break loose from Rome...
...Mary's Paulist Choir is one of the best in the world. It was well known in 1914, when twelve-year-old Eugene O'Malley first thought of joining it. He had read about its triumphal tour of Europe two years before, when it sang before Pope Pius X.* For years young O'Malley had been practicing the piano and going to almost every concert and opera in Chicago. At his tryout he sang Gounod's Ave Maria straight through with such solemn precision that Father William J. Finn, the choirmaster (now retired), nicknamed...
...will be canonized on May 29. Pius, who had an excellent voice himself, instituted a major reform of Catholic church music. Fighting the widespread use in church of professional opera singers and instruments such as drums, trumpets and violins, he advocated a return to Gregorian chant...
...Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary to set up a Program of Advanced Religious Studies under which 20 to 25 young religious leaders from all over the world will spend a year studying and getting to know each other. CJ In a new encyclical titled Sacra Vir-ginitas Pope Pius XII emphasized the superiority of virginity to marriage for clergy and religious orders and for those of the laity who would consecrate themselves entirely to God. "Sacred virginity and perfect chastity consecrated to the service of God," the encyclical said, "certainly is for the Church one of the most precious...