![]() ![]() He was a pontiff who would have been overwhelmed had he not had great mental lucidity and a profound inner light that shone from an intense spirituality, which never failed to radiate courage, generosity and an immense capacity for love. ![]() He was personally convinced that the Church had henceforth moved into another phase of history and adapted himself to it. He shone with charity in every dimension of his personal and social life, charity as a genuine fruit of an indestructible faith in Christ and in his Church. Pius IX enjoyed the fame of holiness in his lifetime, especially during the last part of his pontificate when it became clear how great an effort he had made to strengthen and reconstitute the "connective tissue" of the Church, plagued by theological rationalism and nationalism, international freemasonry, anticlericalism, from the sects produced by the modern mind to the onset of the "social question", and atheistic Marxism. ![]()
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