Quibus quantisque malis

Quibus quantisque malis was a papal allocution of Pius IX addressed to the Consistory of Cardinals on April 20, 1849,[1] discussing the recent political atmosphere.

Pius IX was elected Pope in June 1846, during a time of political agitation which ultimately led to the brief Roman Republic of 1849.

He discusses some of the most important events, his intentions and the maneuvering of certain revolutionary elements who worked to capitalize on them.

Revolutionaries in Rome exploited Pius IX's concessions, and continuously stirred up the populace to exert pressure in order to obtain additional ones.

[3]And it escapes no one that many who had been generously given that pardon not only did not change their thoughts at all, as We were hoping, but instead, as they persisted each day more bitterly in their designs and machinations, there was nothing that they left undone, nothing that they did not dare, nothing that they did not try, to shake and overthrow the civil Principate of the Roman Pontiff and his government, as they had already been planning for a long time, and at the same time, they brought a most bitter war against Our Most Holy Religion.