Non Expedit (Latin for "It is not expedient") were the words with which the Holy See enjoined upon Italian Catholics the policy of boycott from the polls...

of the Church, nor with their multiplication could it be increased. Non expedit (Latin: "It is not expedient") were the words with which the Holy See...

Prentice-Hall (1970) p. 6 "non-expedit | Roman Catholicism". Britannica.com. Retrieved 22 December 2016. "Catholic Encyclopedia: Non Expedit". Newadvent.org. Retrieved...

the Cavour era the secular Law of Guarantees, causing Pope Pius IX's Non Expedit policy of abstention. In foreign relations, their goal was the unification...

observers. From 1868 into the 20th century, the Popes declared that non expedit ("it is not expedient") that the Italian Catholics participate in the...

Vatican stance, but with the rise of socialism he began to allow the Non Expedit, which prohibited Catholics from voting, to be relaxed. In 1905, he authorized...

Benedict XV, represented a tacit and reluctant reversal of the Vatican's Non Expedit of non-participation in Italian politics, which was abolished before the...

participation of Italian Catholics in elections, while respecting the non expedit. In 1901 he was elected city councilor in Naples and was re-elected several...

refusing to leave or to set foot in St. Peter's Square, and forbidding (Non Expedit) Catholics on pain of excommunication to participate in elections in...

nostri tempi (1863, 6 volumes) Le consolazioni del S. P. Pio IX (1863). Non Expedit Lupi 2008. James T. Richardson (6 December 2012). Regulating Religion:...