YEAR OF CONDEMNATION
01: Pope Pius XI’s Instruction Concerning the Immodest Dress of Women (1930)
The following instruction was released by the Vatican’s Sacred Congregation of the Council on January 12, 1930. We are pleased to make this available on the internet for the first time in English, as the opening salvo for our Jubilee Year of Exclusion, Judgment, and Condemnation.

Instruction Concerning the Immodest Dress of Women
(Cfr. Canon 1262, §2)
At the exhortation of His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, to counteract the indecent fashions, many bishops have made regulations in their dioceses and forbidden Catholic ladies to wear fashionable but unbecoming dresses at the sacred functions in church, and especially when receiving Holy Communion.… READ MORE