On Proclaiming the Queenship of Mary. Encyclical promulgated on 11 October 1954.

Encyclical promulgated on 1 May 1946. Asks the bishops to pray about whether the Assumption of Mary should be defined as dogma.

Encyclical on Biblical studies. Promulgated 30 September, 1943. In plain text, 62K.

Encyclical promulgated 30 September, 1943. On Biblical studies. HTML, 61K.

Encyclical on St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the last of the Fathers. Promulgated 24 May, 1953.

Encyclical on St. Boniface. Promulgated 5 June, 1954.

Proclaiming a Marian Year to commemorate the centenary of the definition of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. Encyclical promulgated on 8 September 1953.

Encyclical on St. Benedict, promulgated 21 March, 1947.

Encyclical on devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, promulgated in 1956. Says that it is beneficial for all to consider the core of this devotion, namely, gratitude for divine love.

Encyclical condemns false irenicism and warns theologians against binding themselves to a particular philosophy without regard for the teaching of the Church. Promulgated 12 August, 1950. In plain text, justified.

Encyclical mentions the theory of evolution and is famous for condemning polygenism. Promulgated 12 August, 1950. In HTML.

Encyclical addressed to the bishops of France, issued during the centenary year of the apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes.

Apostolic Constitution, November 1, 1950, on proclaiming the dogma of the Assumption.

Encyclical on the 350th anniversary of the reunion of the Ruthenian Church with Rome. Promulgated 23 December, 1945.

On Saint Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria. Encyclical promulgated 9 April, 1944.

April 13, 1941. Asks belligerants to spare civilians, and to refrain from escalating tactics of mass destruction.

An allocution read on the occasion of the canonization of Pope St. Pius X, in 1954.

A letter sent by Pius XII to the Archbishop of Westminster, marking the centenary of John Henry Newman's reception into the Catholic Church.