Non expedit
Non expedit ( Latin for (it is) not appropriate ) is used as a name for one on September 10, 1874 by Pope Pius IX. enacted bull used. In this bull, the Pope forbade Italian Catholics to actively and passively participate in democratic elections against the background of the revocation of church privileges by the young Italian nation-state . The instruction was relaxed in 1905 by the encyclical Il fermo proposito Pius' X. , but remained until it was formally abolished under Benedict XV. 1919 valid. Only then did a Catholic party, the Partito Popolare Italiano, be founded .
The background was that in 1870 the Kingdom of Italy the previously independent papal state had occupied and annexed against the resistance of the Pope. Pius IX thereupon declared himself a prisoner in the Vatican. This situation was finally ended only in 1929 by the Lateran Treaty , through which the current international legal status of the Holy See was recognized.
literature
- Georg Denzler: PIUS IX .. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 677-678.