Concelebration and Procreation – Pius XII’s Document Could Have Changed Everything

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Pope Pius XII saw it coming. Before Vatican II, before Amoris Laetitia, before the confusion over marriage and morality that has paralyzed the Church, he commissioned an encyclical that condemned the errors that would soon become mainstream. Cultum Regni, the unpublished draft discovered in Vatican archives, does not mince words. It condemns the idea that one Mass celebrated by a hundred priests is the same as a hundred Masses celebrated separately. It rejects situation ethics and the “fundamental option,” the very principles that would later underpin Amoris Laetitia and open the door to communion for the divorced and remarried. It [...]