Vehementer_Nos
Vehementer Nos
1906 papal encyclical by Pope Pius X
Vehementer Nos was a papal encyclical promulgated by Pope Pius X on 11 February 1906. He denounced the French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State enacted two months earlier. He condemned its unilateral abrogation of the Concordat of 1801 between Napoleon I and Pope Pius VII that had granted the Catholic Church a distinctive status and established a working relationship between the French government and the Holy See.[1] The title of the document is taken from its opening words in Latin, which mean "We with vehemence".