text: What does Vehementer Nos have to do with Latinos, and colonization?  It was written by Pius X about the political situation in France in 1906.   In other words, it was an encyclical explicitly directed toward white European Catholics.
  
  Pius X was hard on everyone, and that very much included priests.   We may not like his style, but if you look at the obedience he required from priests, you'll see that he demanded everyone, laity and cleric, live lives based on strict obedience to the church's authority.