During his eleven year pontificate (1903-1914) Pope St. Pius X wrote 16 encyclicals. The subjects ranged from saints, The Immaculate Conception, The Restoration of All Things in Christ, Catholic Social Action, and more. This is collection of 14 out of the 16 encyclicals that he authored.
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Unfortunately this is not a complete collection, as I was unable to find usable English translations of two encyclicals:
"Il Fermo Proposito" and "Singulari Quadam".
A few of the Encyclicals are rather long, but I chose not to break them into sections unless they were over 8000 words. Please be aware of the length when claiming. There are quite a few that are quite reasonable length.
Please note that I went with a collection style intro/outro instead of a book one.
m8b1 wrote: ↑January 12th, 2020, 2:42 pm
A couple of notes:
Unfortunately this is not a complete collection, as I was unable to find usable English translations of two encyclicals:
"Il Fermo Proposito" and "Singulari Quadam".
A few of the Encyclicals are rather long, but I chose not to break them into sections unless they were over 8000 words. Please be aware of the length when claiming. There are quite a few that are quite reasonable length.
Please note that I went with a collection style intro/outro instead of a book one.
m8b1 wrote: ↑January 12th, 2020, 2:42 pm
A couple of notes:
Unfortunately this is not a complete collection, as I was unable to find usable English translations of two encyclicals:
"Il Fermo Proposito" and "Singulari Quadam".
A few of the Encyclicals are rather long, but I chose not to break them into sections unless they were over 8000 words. Please be aware of the length when claiming. There are quite a few that are quite reasonable length.
Please note that I went with a collection style intro/outro instead of a book one.
Yes, I was aware of that site. Unfortunately we can't use it because of copyright issues. Most of the encyclicals on there are taken from a book set that was published in 1981 or later. There is no way of knowing the origin of the translations. The problem isn't finding the encyclicals in english - that site and the Vatican website have them - it is finding a translation that we are certain is PD.
