Google AI: The connection lies in Pope Pius XI's implementation of two contrasting systems of institutional accountability and governance within a single decade . Through these two distinct actions, he simultaneously expanded the Church’s moral responsibility outward to secular society while drastically sealing its internal operations away from secular eyes. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ] 1. The Contradiction of Scope The Outward Moral Standard ( Quadragesimo anno ): In his 1931 encyclical Quadragesimo anno , Pope Pius XI introduced the modern application of "social justice" and "subsidiarity" into Catholic social teaching. He demanded structural adjustments in the state and economy to protect human dignity, ensuring fair wages, worker rights, and the common good. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ] The Inward Secrecy ( Crimen sollicitationis ): Conversely, in 1922, Pope Pius XI approved a heavily restricted, unpublished Holy Office instruction titled Crimen sollicitationis . This document cod...
Did Social Justice Pope Pius XI start sex abuse cover ups?: Kieran Tapsell’s essay, “Canon Law on Child Abuse Through the Ages.: Pius XI’s instruction Crimen Sollicitationis (1922) made the entire process a secret one from start to finish. Gone were public “degradations” of offenders, in which clerics were stripped of their status and handed over to the state for punishment: in 1922, Pius XI issued his secret instruction Crimen Sollicitationis. On the front page of the document are these words: “To be kept in the secret archive of the Curia for internal use. Not to be published or augmented with commentaries.” The “curia” referred to in this heading is the central office of the bishop’s diocese under the care of the chancellor, who alone was to have the key...The requirement to dismiss for “more serious cases” had become one where dismissal was available only where there was an impossibility of reforming the priest. 62 Information about clerics committing child sexual abuse, homosexuality and bestiality, obtained through the Church’s internal inquiries and trials, was made subject to the “secret of the Holy Office”, a permanent silence, the breach of which incurred automatic excommunication that could only be lifted by the Pope personally.
https://www.catholicsforrenewal.org/old_pages/documents/CanonLawOnChildAbuseThruTheAges.pdf Five years later, in 1922, Pius XI issued his secret instruction Crimen Sollicitationis. On the front page of the document are these words: “To be kept in the secret archive of the Curia for internal use. Not to be published or augmented with commentaries.” The “curia” referred to in this heading is the central office of the bishop’s diocese under the care of the chancellor, who alone was to have the key.59 No one was to have access to this safe without the consent of the bishop, the vicar general or 54 Gasparri, editor, Codicem Iuris Canonici Fontes , Vol. 1, (Vatican, Typis Polyglottis, 1926) N.714-2055, 1123 http://www.awrsipe.com/patrick_wall/selected_documents/1890%20Denunciations%20of%20confessors.pdf . 55 In the revised historical introduction to Sacramentorum Sanctitatis Tutela, Pope Benedict XVI said that strict confidentiality was imposed originally because cases of soliciting in...