Non expedit

Non expedit (Latin for ( it is) not installed) is as the name for a September 10, 1874 by Pope Pius IX. adopted bull used. The Pope forbade the faithful Italian Catholics in this bull in the context of the removal of ecclesiastical privileges by the young Italian nation-state, the active and passive participation in democratic elections. The statement retained until 1919, at least formally valid.

The background was that in 1870 the Kingdom of Italy had occupied the previously independent Papal States and annexed against the resistance of the Pope. Pius IX. then agreed a prisoner in the Vatican. This state was finally completed in 1929 by the Lateran Pacts, by which the current international legal status of the Holy See was recognized.

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