Favorite 19th-Century Pope

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Inspired by the poll on favorite 20th-Century popes, I’m curious about people’s preferences on pontiffs from the 19th Century.
 
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Inspired by the poll on favorite 20th-Century popes, I’m curious about people’s preferences on pontiffs from the 19th Century.
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Gregory XVI. Condemned railways. With Britain gridlocked and a Middle Eastern war of oil looming, we are just beginning to realise he was right.
 
Leo XIII…his Encyclicals were amazing…I wrote a paper on Rerum Novarum this semester for my Honors Econ class–got an A on the paper and the presentation!

Rerum is some amazing thought; it’s a shame our modern leaders don’t follow some of the things that Papa Leo said in it…we wouldn’t be in the worldwide mess we are now if they would…

I pray for his canonization!
-ACEGC
 
Leo XIII is also my favorite 19th century pope. He was an amazing writer. There is a book (from TAN I think) that compiles all or most of his encycials that I plan to buy.
 
I like both Blessed Pius IX as well as Pius VII. Poor Pius VII, he had to deal with Emperor Napoleon.
 
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Anyone care to guess who I picked? 😃
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Paul VI ?​

I picked Pius IX, for restoring the English hierarchy in 1850; I just wish he had restored the Scottish hierarchy as well (Leo XIII did, as one of his first acts). Thanks to certain 16th-century Popes, both hierarchies had been extinguished :mad: 😦 So Pius IX gets my vote 😛
 
Pio Nono, with Pius VII as a close second. He wrote the beautiful Litany to Our Lady of Sorrows while imprisoned by Napolean.
 
Pius IX, and it just so happens I started reading a biography of him yesterday. Leo XIII would be second.
 
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