Original Latin Instruction:
Instruction called "ad ordinarios dioecesanos: de inhonesto feminarum vestiendi more" can be found (pgs. 26-28) from the Acta Apostolicae Sedis: Click here
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(Translation 2 Source: Rev. Stanislaus Woywod, Canonical Decisions of the Holy See [New York: J.F. Wagner, 1933], pp. 222-223; Latin original in Acta Apostolicae Sedis XXII [1930], pp. 26-28.)
About This Instruction:
The Papal decree and instructions regarding modesty in dress were written by the Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Council, addressed 12 January 1930 to the universal Church, in the name and by mandate of Pope Pius XI.
From the Papal Decree (Translation 1):
"So let this sacred consilium of the clergy and of the people, pursue the same sort of vigilance and action regarding the propagation of discipline as the holy bishops, with deserved approbation and praise and let it earnestly exhort these same men that they implement the counsels and the undertakings begun in due season, and urge them on generously and to the best of their ability, until this pestiferous sickness be completely rooted out from amongst the honest affairs of men. That this aim might be brought the more easily and securely to effect, this sacred congregation, by the mandate of Our Most Holy Lord, decrees what follows to be enacted..."
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Letter on immodesty of fashion, written by Cardinal Ciriaci, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Council, addressed 15 August 1954 to bishops around the world, in the name and by mandate of Pope Pius XI.
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Medieval Sourcebook:
The Responses of Pope Nicholas I to the Questions of the Bulgars A.D. 866 (Letter 99)
Translated by W. L. North from the edition of Ernest Perels, in MGH Epistolae VI, Berlin, 1925, pp. 568-600.
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Benedict XV, Exhortation to a group of Italian women on October 21, 1919, in The Woman in the Modern World, Daughters of St. Paul, 1958, pp. 29-30
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Pius XII, Address to young girls of Catholic Action , October 6, 1940.
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Pius XII, Address to young girls of Catholic Action of Rome, members of the crusade of purity , May 22, 1941.
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Pius XII, Address to the young girls of Italian Catholic Action , April 24, 1943.
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On the Apostolate of Girls in the Renewal of Society,
Speech to the Italian Feminine Youth of April 24, 1943
Documentos Pontificios, Petrópolis: Vozes, 1954, nn. 21-23
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Pius XII, speech to the participants of the National Scientific Congress on Sports and Gymnastics on November 8, 1952
Translated from Portuguese, Vozes, 1957, nn. 13-15, pp. 7-8
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Pius XII, Address to physical education teachers , November 8, 1952, in documents of Pope Pius XII, 1952, p. 516-517.
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Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Sacra Virginitas of March 25, 1954 (no. 58-59), in
The Woman in the Modern World, Daughters of St. Paul, 1958, Appendix II
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An Address of Pope Pius XII to a Congress of the 'Latin Union of High Fashion[1] Di gran cuore November 8, 1957.
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Pius XII Congress speech of the Latin Union couture , November 8, 1957.
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Pius XII, Allocution to the International Congress of High Fashion, November 8, 1957, Petrópolis: Vozes, 1958, pp. 5-6.
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Pius XII, Allocution to the International Congress of High Fashion, November 8, 1957, Petrópolis: Vozes, 1958, pp. 6-7.
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Pius XII, Allocution to the International Congress of High Fashion, November 8, 1957, Petrópolis: Vozes, 1958, pp. 12-13.
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Pius XII, Allocution to the International Congress of High Fashion,
November 8, 1957, Petrópolis: Vozes, 1958, pp. 14-15.
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Pius XII, Allocution to the International Congress of High Fashion, November 8, 1957, Petrópolis: Vozes, 1958, pp. 18-19.
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Published in a Catholic Magazine: Page 16, Our Young People, Volumes 29-30, Copyrighted by St. John’s Institute, April 1919. Published with the approbation of Most Rev. S. G. Messmer, D. D., Archbishop of Milwaukee.
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Pastoral Letter of His Eminence Cardinal Juan Gualberto Guevara,
Archbishop of Lima, Peru, published on March 13, 1951
transcribed in Catolicismo, n. 6, June, 1951
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Pastoral Letter of His Eminence Cardinal Juan Gualberto Guevara,
Archbishop of Lima, Peru, published on March 13, 1951
transcribed in Catolicismo, n. 6, June, 1951
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Decency and Modesty Pastoral Letter of His Excellency the Most Reverend Albert G. Meyer, S.T.D., S.S.L. Archbishop of Milwaukee May 1, 1956
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Albert G. Meyer, Pastoral Letter on Decency and Modesty, May 1, 1956,
(Milwaukee, WI: Chancery Office, 1956), pp. 12-15.
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Albert G. Meyer, Pastoral Letter on Decency and Modesty, May 1, 1956,
(Milwaukee, WI: Chancery Office, 1956), pp. 16-17.
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Albert G. Meyer, Pastoral Letter on Decency and Modesty, May 1, 1956,
(Milwaukee, WI: Chancery Office, 1956), pp. 12-15.
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Genoa, June 12, 1960, Giuseppe Cardinal Siri
Translated from El Cruzado
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Excerpts from the book 'Le Père Emmanuel' (2003) by Dom Bernard Maréchaux
English translation by John R. Symons
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Extracts from 'Purgatory' (1893) by Rev. F.X. Schouppe, S.J.
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An article published in a Catholic Magazine: Page 20, Our Young People, Volumes 29-30, Copyrighted by St. John’s Institute, April 1919. Published with the approbation of Most Rev. S. G. Messmer, D. D., Archbishop of Milwaukee.
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Antonio Royo Marin, OP, The Theology of Christian Perfection,
Mount Kisco NY: Foundation for a Christian Civilization, 1987, pp 431-432
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Article: Posted August 5, 2009
Rebuttal: Posted in The Remnant, August 15, 2009
Defense: Posted September 10, 2009