Who is your favorite 20th Century Pope

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Simple question…this is a poll. Please vote and respond…Please also give your reasoning. God Bless

Personally, I think St. Pius X is the best out of the 20th Century…I love his Catechism of Modernism…I think it is applicable…especially today
Ok…I forgot to include the poll…Mea Culpa!!! Just respond LOL
 
B16 is a 21st Century pope. As for the 20th Century, I say Pius X because of modernism, although JP2 gets an honorable mention because of the theology of the body, even though the popes through Pius XII are better in terms of liturgy.
 
PS, we need Pius X’s teachings on Modernism today more than ever.
 
Revs96 said:
B16 is a 21st Century pope. As for the 20th Century, I say Pius X because of modernism, although JP2 gets an honorable mention because of the theology of the body, even though the popes through Pius XII are better in terms of liturgy.
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Thank you pointing that out.👍 I thought the question was for any time.
 
Pope St. Pius X wins by default for being a saint, though my personal favorite is Pope Pius XII, because he saved upwards to 700,000 lives out of valor against the forces of totalitarianism in Europe.
 
michaeldaniels said:
Simple question…this is a poll. Please vote and respond…Please also give your reasoning. God Bless

Personally, I think St. Pius X is the best out of the 20th Century…I love his Catechism of Modernism…I think it is applicable…especially today
Ok…I forgot to include the poll…Mea Culpa!!! Just respond LOL
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I love St. Pius X of course.

I don’t think you can make a case for the post conciliar Popes because of the decline the Church has faced. Someone will say JPII. I think we are way to close for that. And then there is the objective matter of the Church’s decline during his pontificate. Personally holy? SURE! A saint… very well may be. A great Pope? That is another question.

I think a case could be made for Benedict XVI, but that is the 21st Century. I think he has done more to reverse the decline already than all his post-conciliar predecessors.

So… I would have to go with… Benedict XV…

This from Wikipedia.

“He declared the neutrality of the Holy See and attempted from that perspective to mediate peace in 1916 and 1917. Both sides rejected his initiatives. German Protestants rejected any “Papal Peace” as insulting. French politician Georges Clemenceau regarded the Vatican initiative as anti-French.[2] Having failed with diplomatic initiatives, the Pope focused on humanitarian efforts to lessen the impacts of the war, such as attending prisoners of war, the exchange of wounded soldiers and food deliveries to needy populations in Europe. After the war, he repaired the difficult relations with France, which re-established relations with the Vatican in 1921. During his pontificate, relations with Italy improved as well, as the Pope now permitted Catholic politicians led by Don Luigi Sturzo to participate in national Italian politics. Benedict issued in 1917 the first ever Code of Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church, the creation of which he had prepared with Pietro Gasparri and Eugenio Pacelli during the pontificate of Pius X. The new Code of Canon Law is considered to have stimulated religious life and activities throughout the Church.[3] He named Pietro Gasparri to be his Cardinal Secretary of State and personally consecrated Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli on 13 May 1917 as Archbishop on the very day of the Marian apparitions in Fatima. World War One caused great damage to Catholic missions throughout the world. Benedict revitalized these activities, asking in Maximum Illud for Catholics throughout the world to participate. His last concern was the emerging persecution of the Church in the Soviet Russia and the famine there after the revolution. Benedict was an ardent mariologist, devoted to Marian veneration and open to new perspectives of Roman Catholic Mariology. He supported the mediatrix theology and authorized the Feast of Mary Mediator of all Graces.[4] After just over seven years in office, Pope Benedict XV died on 22 January 1922.”

All in all, quite a pontificate.
 
  1. Pius X
  2. Benedict XV . A wonderful, though largely forgotten man of God
  3. Leo XIII
 
Pope St. Pius X.

Reasons include his many strong attacks on relativism and modernism (as others have already mentioned) which are startlingly accurate and relavant to our present situation in the Church as well as his publication of the Code of Canon Law.

Obviously, I never met his Holiness, but I get the impression that he was a reserved individual but also a straight-shooter who didn’t put up with innovations that infringed upon Tradition. And for someone who (according to his biography) really didn’t want to be a Pope or attract much attention at all, his accomplishments are impressive and a really lovely testimony to humility.
 
Pope St Pius the X especially because of his encyclical “Pacendi Domenici Gregis” which every Catholic should read and the “Oath against Modernism” every Seminarian had to take . Pope Leo the XIII who composed the St Michael the Archangel prayer and required the Leonine Prayers after Low Mass- and Pope Pius the XII who defined from the Chair of St Peter the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
 
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Pope St. Pius X.

Reasons include his many strong attacks on relativism and modernism (as others have already mentioned) which are startlingly accurate and relavant to our present situation in the Church as well as his publication of the Code of Canon Law.

Obviously, I never met his Holiness, but I get the impression that he was a reserved individual but also a straight-shooter who didn’t put up with innovations that infringed upon Tradition. And for someone who (according to his biography) really didn’t want to be a Pope or attract much attention at all, his accomplishments are impressive and a really lovely testimony to humility.
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I like him too…

Didn’t Benedict XV give us the 1917 code of Canon Law, and wasn’t that in force until 1983… or am I ignorant of something? (this is quite possible of course… would appreciate a correction)
 
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