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501 13 | God whom it denies, and as laying down the principle that
502 | least
503 10 | reserves that in reality it leaves to the public powers the
504 [Title]| of Paris; Victor Lucien Lecot, Cardinal Archbishop of
505 8 | to allow themselves to be led, and, like a docile flock,
506 8 | receive the alms and the legacies destined for religious worship.
507 1 | stage of destitution. Other legal measures which you all know
508 10 | consecrated, with perfect legality, to divine worship and to
509 8 | based on Divine law, divina lege fundatum.The Law of Separation,
510 3 | actione vitae excludere, a legibus, ab institutione adolescentium,
511 1 | Christian marriage outraged by legislative acts in formal contradiction
512 | less
513 14 | France itself confirms the lesson, that though forged by hatred,
514 | let
515 10 | resources furnished by Catholic liberality for the maintenance of Catholic
516 3 | difficult to see where the truth lies, and great confusion is
517 1 | violently the old ties that linked your nation with the Apostolic
518 7 | When the State broke the links of the Concordat, and separated
519 12 | and concord no nation can live long or prosper. Especially
520 17 | actions and your entire lives may do honor to the faith
521 14 | is Our distress when We look into the future and see
522 18 | storms that have been let loose upon her, and, by the intercession
523 8 | disponens, in evangelio loquitur et dicit Petro: Ego dico
524 8 | admirably when he writes: "Our Lord, whose precepts we must
525 14 | upon a people so tenderly loved by Us. And We are still
526 12 | everybody in France who loves his country and has its
527 [Title]| Archbishop of Paris; Victor Lucien Lecot, Cardinal Archbishop
528 [Title]| Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons; Joseph Guillaume Laboure,
529 3 | especially, has frequently and magnificently expounded Catholic teaching
530 3 | a societate domestica, magnus et perniciousus est error."1 ~
531 5 | with one another depends mainly on the inviolable fidelity
532 5 | and their successors to maintain inviolate the pact they
533 10 | august refuges of the Divine Majesty and endeared by a thousand
534 9 | still constitute the vast majority in France, of the sacred
535 [Title]| Well-beloved Sons, Francois Marie Richard, Cardinal Archbishop
536 1 | inviolability of Christian marriage outraged by legislative
537 8 | the Pastors. St. Cyprian, Martyr, expresses this truth admirably
538 18 | by the intercession of Mary Immaculate, to restore soon
539 8 | ruling, teaching and judging (Matt. xxviii. 18-20; xvi. 18,
540 14 | example set for them in this matter by their predecessors. God
541 15 | errors and seductions they meet on all sides; instruct,
542 10 | and endeared by a thousand memories to the piety of the French
543 14 | Divine Providence, so rich in mercies, and to the hope, a thousand
544 18 | Him to bend a glance of mercy on France, to save her from
545 8 | arbitrary decisions that its mere interpretation is well calculated
546 8 | Noster, cujus praecepta metuere et servare debemus, episcopi
547 15 | justice, to outrage with mildness, and to ill-treatment with
548 1 | discipline to be subjected to military service; the religious congregations
549 14 | discouragement when Our mind turns to Divine Providence,
550 13 | 13. Hence, mindful of Our Apostolic charge
551 3 | supreme rule and the sovereign mistress in all questions touching
552 17 | all necessary: you must model yourselves so faithfully
553 2 | who think rightly. At a moment of such gravity for the
554 4 | the nation of part of her moral force and great influence
555 9 | preaching of Catholic faith and morals and sets up a severe and
556 1 | abolished; the signs of mourning traditionally observed on
557 8 | that the Church is the mystical body of Christ, ruled by
558 8 | episcopal dignity and the nature of the Church, addresses
559 1 | the schools, the army, the navy, and in a word from all
560 15 | without offense to anybody. Nay more, in their earnestness
561 3 | soul. - Quaedam intercedat necesse est ordinata colligatio (
562 3 | this thesis is an obvious negation of the supernatural order.
563 3 | religionis velut alienam nihilque profuturam abjicere....
564 | nobody
565 15 | quoniam digni habiti sunt pro nomine Jesu contumeliam pati" (
566 | none
567 8 | ruled by them. - Dominus Noster, cujus praecepta metuere
568 6 | abrogation of the Concordat is notably aggravated by the manner
569 6 | treaty. Yet not only has no notification of this kind been made to
570 6 | previously and regularly notified, in a clear and explicit
571 3(1) | Ency. Immortale Dei Nov. 1, 1885. ~
572 1 | effaced from the judicial oath; all actions and emblems
573 3 | power must not only place no obstacle in the way of this conquest,
574 9 | the Church, but by putting obstacles to her influence, always
575 3 | political societies; and it occupies itself in no fashion (on
576 8 | and the flock, those who occupy a rank in the different
577 7 | law many exceptional and odiously restrictive provisions,
578 15 | the Church, but without offense to anybody. Nay more, in
579 13 | and condemn it as gravely offensive to the dignity of this Apostolic
580 11 | the documents of history offer the clearest confirmation
581 2 | vain - the attentions, good offices, and efforts of Our Predecessor
582 1 | to arrive at complete and official separation, as the authors
583 6 | the smallest States. Its officials, representatives though
584 6 | the courtesy that is never omitted even in dealing with the
585 3 | gerere se tamquam si Deus omnino non esset, aut curam religionis
586 8 | Episcopos constituatur et omnis actus Ecclesiae per eosdem
587 16 | to your homes, and which opens to you the way to eternal
588 16 | sacrifice something of his own opinions. If you wish, within the
589 15 | are found worthy to suffer opprobrium for the name of Jesus, "
590 1 | know have followed: the law ordaining public prayers at the beginning
591 9 | Church of the Religious Orders, those precious auxiliaries
592 6 | the Apostolic See without ordinary respect and without the
593 3 | Quaedam intercedat necesse est ordinata colligatio (inter illas)
594 8 | successionum vices Episcoporum ordinatio et Ecclesiae ratio decurrit,
595 8 | with the general rules of organization of the cult whose existence
596 | otherwise
597 7 | itself from the Church, it ought, as a natural consequence,
598 | out
599 1 | inviolability of Christian marriage outraged by legislative acts in formal
600 1 | solicitude and Our heart overflows with grief, when Our thoughts
601 3 | He preserves our own. We owe Him, therefore, not only
602 1 | surprised nobody who has paid any attention to the religious
603 18 | the midst of you; labors, pains, sufferings - We will share
604 9 | over the people, and by paralyzing her activity in a thousand
605 [Title]| Cardinal Archbishop of Paris; Victor Lucien Lecot, Cardinal
606 1 | at the beginning of each Parliamentary Session and of the assizes
607 6 | to the other contracting party by the one which intends
608 16 | through which you will have to pass. You know the aim of the
609 14 | to the persecuting laws passed against her, history teaches,
610 12 | inflames on religious grounds passions already too dangerously
611 2 | politicians on their downward path, and brought them at last
612 15 | nomine Jesu contumeliam pati" (Rom. xiii. 12). They will
613 10 | of a great portion of a patrimony which belongs to her by
614 9 | protecting public order, deprive peaceable citizens, who still constitute
615 7 | and allowed her to enjoy peacefully that liberty, granted by
616 9 | a severe and exceptional penal code for clerics - when
617 15 | console your flocks, and perform for them all the duties
618 10 | gratuitous use, for an indefinite period, of these to the associations
619 3 | societate domestica, magnus et perniciousus est error."1 ~
620 11 | Government should bind itself in perpetuity to endow the clergy suitably
621 14 | fruitfulness. As to the persecuting laws passed against her,
622 15 | and as long as oppressive persecution continues, the children
623 17 | manner, and to carry it on perseveringly and efficaciously, two things
624 13 | Apostolic See, to Our own person, to the Episcopacy, and
625 8 | ecclesiastical property, real and personal, which is to have at its
626 8 | special form and a juridical personality, and considers it alone
627 8 | evangelio loquitur et dicit Petro: Ego dico tibi quia tu es
628 [Title]| Archbishop of Bordeaux; Pierre Hector Couillie, Cardinal
629 4(2) | Allocution to the French pilgrims, April 13, 1888.~
630 10 | suppresses and annuls all the pious foundations consecrated,
631 19 | third of Our Pontificate. ~PIUS X~ ~
632 17 | Apostolic See, which is the pivot of the Catholic faith and
633 16 | impious sects which are placing your heads under their yoke,
634 8 | time and circumstance, the plan of the episcopate and the
635 15 | importance, that in all the plans you undertake for the defense
636 3 | itself in no fashion (on the plea that this is foreign to
637 19 | 19. As a pledge of these heavenly gifts
638 9 | Pastors from exercising the plenitude of their authority and of
639 12 | seems to be calculated to plunge the whole country into disorder. ~
640 8 | Moreover, the law on these points is not set forth in clear
641 2 | would have stayed those politicians on their downward path,
642 3 | of men. Hence the Roman Pontiffs have never ceased, as circumstances
643 19 | year 1906, the third of Our Pontificate. ~PIUS X~ ~
644 15 | as possible; promote and popularize more and more the teaching
645 10 | despoils the Church of a great portion of a patrimony which belongs
646 9 | not place the Church in a position of humiliating subjection
647 8 | sacred edifices, which is to possess ecclesiastical property,
648 11 | peace, not to disturb the possessors of property thus taken from
649 15 | among the people as much as possible; promote and popularize
650 3 | pernicious error. - Civitates non possunt, citra scellus, gerere se
651 18 | share them all with you; and pouring forth to God, who has founded
652 15 | give you at a fitting time practical instructions which shall
653 4 | closely bound up with the practice of Christian virtue and
654 9 | of the sacred right of practicing their religion? Hence it
655 8 | Dominus Noster, cujus praecepta metuere et servare debemus,
656 8 | actus Ecclesiae per eosdem praepositos gubernetur" (St. Cyprian,
657 17 | working, and never cease to pray to Him for help. ~
658 9 | function; when it thwarts the preaching of Catholic faith and morals
659 9 | Religious Orders, those precious auxiliaries of hers in her
660 8 | not set forth in clear and precise terms, but is left so vague
661 14 | in this matter by their predecessors. God grant that they may,
662 14 | when they are found to be prejudicial to the interests of the
663 8 | completely silent. And if it does prescribe that the associations of
664 5 | the law of nations which prescribes that it could not be in
665 9 | them to a whole series of prescriptions not contained in the common
666 12 | Ourself to striving for the preservation of full rights of the religion
667 13 | upon Us of defending and preserving against all assaults the
668 7 | the common law, which it pretended to assign to her. Nothing
669 9 | subjection and, under the pretext of protecting public order,
670 6 | breaking of a treaty should be previously and regularly notified,
671 8 | in opposition to these principles, assigns the administration
672 3 | Him, therefore, not only a private cult, but a public and social
673 15 | quoniam digni habiti sunt pro nomine Jesu contumeliam
674 7 | 7. If We now proceed to examine in itself the
675 16 | for they themselves have proclaimed with cynical boldness that
676 9 | difficult still; when, after proclaiming the liberty of public worship,
677 10 | in contempt of all right, proclaims as property of the State,
678 8 | is well calculated to be productive of the greatest trouble. ~
679 10 | are certainly in danger of profanation if they fall into the hands
680 17 | do honor to the faith you profess, and then you must be closely
681 15 | animated by the sentiments professed long ago by the Apostles,
682 3 | religionis velut alienam nihilque profuturam abjicere.... Ecclesiam vero,
683 5 | Thus it violates its sworn promise. To break with the Church,
684 8 | right and authority for promoting the end of the society and
685 7 | the law that has just been promulgated, We find, therein, fresh
686 19 | these heavenly gifts and a proof of Our special predilection,
687 16 | made your country great and prosperous among nations, which sustains
688 9 | and, under the pretext of protecting public order, deprive peaceable
689 13 | of France. Therefore, We protest solemnly and with all Our
690 7 | therein, fresh reason for protesting still more energetically.
691 14 | experience of ages triumphantly proves. The world knows of the
692 11 | the clergy suitably and to provide for the expenses of divine
693 3 | thesis also upsets the order providentially established by God in the
694 11 | State from the obligation of providing for the expenses of worship,
695 3 | life only, which is but the proximate object of political societies;
696 1 | the authors of them have publicly and frequently admitted. ~
697 14 | of time - but where all purely human institutions must
698 4 | her real greatness and her purest glories.... To disturb this
699 3 | action of the State to the pursuit of public prosperity during
700 6 | the one which intends to put an end to the treaty. Yet
701 3 | colligatio (inter illas) quae quidem conjunctioni non
702 3 | between body and soul. - Quaedam intercedat necesse est ordinata
703 1 | lamented? That is, beyond question, an event of the gravest
704 3 | sovereign mistress in all questions touching the rights and
705 3 | colligatio (inter illas) quae quidem conjunctioni non immerito
706 15 | name of Jesus, "Gaudentes quoniam digni habiti sunt pro nomine
707 2 | considered it Our duty to raise Our voice and to open Our
708 8 | flock, those who occupy a rank in the different degrees
709 8 | Episcoporum ordinatio et Ecclesiae ratio decurrit, ut Ecclesia super
710 8 | honorem et ecclesiae suae rationem disponens, in evangelio
711 15 | know that they are always ready to devote themselves unreservedly
712 10 | serious reserves that in reality it leaves to the public
713 1 | which, one after another really separated the Church from
714 1 | emblems serving in any way to recall the idea of religion banished
715 | recent
716 5 | political order itself - for the reciprocal security of nations in their
717 13 | principle that the Republic recognizes no cult. We reprove and
718 1 | members for the most part reduced to the last stage of destitution.
719 9 | Law of Separation falsely reduces the essence of religion)
720 10 | to which we have so far referred, the Law of Separation also
721 10 | those temples, the august refuges of the Divine Majesty and
722 3 | if God did not exist or refuse to concern themselves with
723 3 | circumstances required, to refute and condemn the doctrine
724 6 | should be previously and regularly notified, in a clear and
725 8 | administer the property, regulate collections, and receive
726 9 | the Church of the internal regulation of the churches in order
727 15 | long ago by the Apostles, rejoicing that they are found worthy
728 8 | disputes which may arise relative to their property the Council
729 3 | omnino non esset, aut curam religionis velut alienam nihilque profuturam
730 2 | brought them at last to relinquish their designs. But all has
731 15 | clergy. They are rich in men remarkable for piety, knowledge, and
732 9 | contained in the common law, rendering their formation difficult
733 [Title]| Cardinal Archbishop of Rennes; and to all Our Venerable
734 15 | especially bound to do, they will reply to iniquity with justice,
735 4 | eminently disastrous and reprehensible in separating itself from
736 6 | smallest States. Its officials, representatives though they were of a Catholic
737 13 | down the principle that the Republic recognizes no cult. We reprove
738 16 | useless if you endeavor to repulse the assaults made on you
739 11 | subsistence and for the requirements of public worship, the concession
740 10 | with so many and so serious reserves that in reality it leaves
741 8 | though only for a time) the residences of the Bishops and priests
742 8 | alone as having rights and responsibilities in the eyes of the law in
743 2 | the sense of Our Apostolic responsibility, We have considered it Our
744 11 | assumed by the State to make restitution, at least in part, to the
745 9 | worship, it proceeds to restrict its exercise by numerous
746 9 | Hence it is not merely by restricting the exercise of worship (
747 7 | exceptional and odiously restrictive provisions, the effect of
748 11 | supplying the clergy with a revenue sufficient for their decent
749 8 | whose precepts we must revere and observe, in establishing
750 11 | confiscated during the first Revolution. On the other hand when
751 [Title]| Well-beloved Sons, Francois Marie Richard, Cardinal Archbishop of
752 14 | only fresh strength and richer fruitfulness. As to the
753 1 | must be deplored by all the right-minded, for it is as disastrous
754 2 | wishes of all who think rightly. At a moment of such gravity
755 15 | Jesu contumeliam pati" (Rom. xiii. 12). They will therefore
756 19 | French people. ~Given at Rome, at St. Peter's, on February
757 16 | Catholicise" France. They want to root out from your hearts the
758 8 | harmony with the general rules of organization of the cult
759 3 | this short life shall have run its course. But as the present
760 16 | everybody should be willing to sacrifice something of his own opinions.
761 11 | his successors, for the sake of peace, not to disturb
762 15 | Meanwhile continue the salutary work you are doing; strive
763 5 | the fact that they were sanctioned by sworn treaties. The Concordat
764 9 | code for clerics - when it sanctions all these provisions and
765 9 | the State has not been satisfied with depriving the Church
766 14 | these crushing cares, We are saved from excessive affliction
767 8 | divinely instituted by Our Savior, but to an association formed
768 4 | had truly good reason to say: "France cannot forget that
769 3 | societies. "Between them," he says, "there must necessarily
770 3 | Civitates non possunt, citra scellus, gerere se tamquam si Deus
771 9 | same kind in which wide scope is left to arbitrary ruling,
772 8 | founded by Jesus Christ. The Scripture teaches us, and the tradition
773 5 | has always observed with scrupulous fidelity the engagements
774 3 | possunt, citra scellus, gerere se tamquam si Deus omnino non
775 16 | know the aim of the impious sects which are placing your heads
776 5 | itself - for the reciprocal security of nations in their relations
777 15 | you from the errors and seductions they meet on all sides;
778 3 | matters will spring the seeds of disputes which will become
779 10 | which it would be idle to seek for a vestige of religion.
780 | seems
781 1 | authority at religion. You have seen the sanctity and the inviolability
782 8 | Bishops and priests and the seminaries; which is to administer
783 15 | must be animated by the sentiments professed long ago by the
784 4 | disastrous and reprehensible in separating itself from the Church,
785 2 | infallibly result from their separatist policy, it at the same time
786 9 | submits them to a whole series of prescriptions not contained
787 10 | concession with so many and so serious reserves that in reality
788 8 | that all these provisions seriously violate the rights of the
789 8 | cujus praecepta metuere et servare debemus, episcopi honorem
790 15 | instructions which shall serve as a sure rule of conduct
791 1 | be subjected to military service; the religious congregations
792 1 | all actions and emblems serving in any way to recall the
793 1 | beginning of each Parliamentary Session and of the assizes has been
794 9 | Catholic faith and morals and sets up a severe and exceptional
795 9 | and morals and sets up a severe and exceptional penal code
796 18 | pains, sufferings - We will share them all with you; and pouring
797 | she
798 1 | traditionally observed on board the ships on Good Friday suppressed;
799 3 | eternal happiness after this short life shall have run its
800 6 | whereas they should have shown more respect to this power
801 3 | scellus, gerere se tamquam si Deus omnino non esset, aut
802 5 | Roman Pontiff on the one side and the Head of the French
803 1 | has been abolished; the signs of mourning traditionally
804 11 | point there cannot be the slightest doubt, for the documents
805 6 | even in dealing with the smallest States. Its officials, representatives
806 3 | institutione adolescentium, a societate domestica, magnus et perniciousus
807 5 | today the State, by its sole authority, abrogates the
808 5 | authority, abrogates the solemn pact it signed. Thus it
809 1 | soul is full of sorrowful solicitude and Our heart overflows
810 12 | therefore, without the keenest sorrow observe that the French
811 1 | Our soul is full of sorrowful solicitude and Our heart
812 2 | other hand the Holy See has spared absolutely no means to avert
813 3 | each exercises in its own sphere its authority over them.
814 3 | these common matters will spring the seeds of disputes which
815 8 | Doctors (I Ephes. iv. II sqq.) - a society of men containing
816 14 | Church. Her strength and her stability are Divine, as the experience
817 1 | part reduced to the last stage of destitution. Other legal
818 15 | They will therefore stoutly stand up for the rights and liberty
819 2 | that gratitude would have stayed those politicians on their
820 1 | State, were but so many steps designedly made to arrive
821 5 | Nation on the other solemnly stipulated both for themselves and
822 5 | from her friendship, it has stopped at nothing, and has not
823 18 | France, to save her from the storms that have been let loose
824 15 | 12). They will therefore stoutly stand up for the rights
825 1 | have been nothing new or strange, witnesses as you have been
826 2 | lavished upon France the most striking proofs of indulgent affection.
827 15 | salutary work you are doing; strive to kindle piety among the
828 12 | not confined Ourself to striving for the preservation of
829 12 | religion is certainly the strongest bond ever before Our eyes,
830 18 | as long as you have to struggle against danger, We will
831 1 | clerics torn from their studies and from ecclesiastical
832 8 | episcopi honorem et ecclesiae suae rationem disponens, in evangelio
833 1 | ecclesiastical discipline to be subjected to military service; the
834 9 | position of humiliating subjection and, under the pretext of
835 9 | over these associations and submits them to a whole series of
836 3 | things is temporary and subordinated to the conquest of man's
837 3 | the relations which should subsist between the two societies. "
838 11 | sufficient for their decent subsistence and for the requirements
839 2 | enemies of religion have succeeded at last in effecting by
840 8 | Inde per temporum et successionum vices Episcoporum ordinatio
841 14 | institutions must inevitably have succumbed, the Church has drawn from
842 15 | they are found worthy to suffer opprobrium for the name
843 11 | the clergy with a revenue sufficient for their decent subsistence
844 10 | to divine worship and to suffrages for the dead. The resources
845 3 | there must necessarily be a suitable union, which may not improperly
846 11 | perpetuity to endow the clergy suitably and to provide for the expenses
847 1 | promulgation of that law which, by sundering violently the old ties that
848 15 | Gaudentes quoniam digni habiti sunt pro nomine Jesu contumeliam
849 8 | ratio decurrit, ut Ecclesia super Episcopos constituatur et
850 3 | obvious negation of the supernatural order. It limits the action
851 8 | the administration and the supervision of public worship not to
852 11 | Concordat the obligation of supplying the clergy with a revenue
853 14 | deprive her of His unfailing support. We are, then, far from
854 1 | the ships on Good Friday suppressed; the religious character
855 10 | numerous as they are sacred; it suppresses and annuls all the pious
856 11 | 11. When the law, by the suppression of the Budget of Public
857 1 | an event which can have surprised nobody who has paid any
858 10 | associations of worship, but it surrounds the concession with so many
859 16 | prosperous among nations, which sustains you in your trials, which
860 17 | defense of the Church; but take care that your trust is
861 3 | citra scellus, gerere se tamquam si Deus omnino non esset,
862 15 | Brethren, who are to be the teachers and guides, will bring all
863 10 | for the sanctity of those temples, the august refuges of the
864 3 | present order of things is temporary and subordinated to the
865 8 | Petrus, etc.... Inde per temporum et successionum vices Episcoporum
866 16 | a testimony of that most tender affection with which We
867 8 | forth in clear and precise terms, but is left so vague and
868 10 | purpose of the donors and testators. It is also a subject of
869 16 | to receive Our words as a testimony of that most tender affection
870 [Title]| Text~ ~To Our Well-beloved Sons,
871 | thereby
872 | therein
873 2 | of the wishes of all who think rightly. At a moment of
874 19 | 11 in the year 1906, the third of Our Pontificate. ~PIUS
875 14 | grievously affected by the thought of the trials, sufferings
876 1 | overflows with grief, when Our thoughts dwell upon you. How, indeed,
877 9 | with this function; when it thwarts the preaching of Catholic
878 8 | xvi. 18, 19; xviii. 17; Tit. ii. 15; 11. Cor. x. 6;
879 | together
880 1 | hospitals laicized; clerics torn from their studies and from
881 3 | mistress in all questions touching the rights and the duties
882 | toward
883 8 | Scripture teaches us, and the tradition of the Fathers confirms
884 4 | glories.... To disturb this traditional union would be to deprive
885 1 | abolished; the signs of mourning traditionally observed on board the ships
886 10 | Separation also violates and tramples under foot the rights of
887 13 | as destroying justice and trampling underfoot the rights of
888 16 | your trials, which brings tranquillity and peace to your homes,
889 10 | with religion, have been transferred to lay associations in which
890 6 | Government has not hesitated to treat the Apostolic See without
891 14 | the trials, sufferings and tribulations of all kinds that are to
892 8 | State is the only competent tribunal. These associations of worship
893 14 | as the experience of ages triumphantly proves. The world knows
894 8 | productive of the greatest trouble. ~
895 4 | for religion. Leo XIII had truly good reason to say: "France
896 17 | but take care that your trust is placed entirely in God,
897 15 | that during the present turmoil they must be animated by
898 16 | 16. And now We turn to you, Catholics of France,
899 14 | discouragement when Our mind turns to Divine Providence, so
900 3 | foreign to it) with their ultimate object which is man's eternal
901 13 | destroying justice and trampling underfoot the rights of property which
902 15 | clergy will also certainly understand that during the present
903 8 | Church is essentially an unequal society, that is, a society
904 14 | ever deprive her of His unfailing support. We are, then, far
905 6 | the Apostolic See by the unilateral abrogation of the Concordat
906 6 | without controversy, and universally observed by all nations,
907 13 | Church and State, as deeply unjust to God whom it denies, and
908 15 | ready to devote themselves unreservedly under your direction to
909 2 | great calamity. While it was untiring in warning those who were
910 1 | Church in France a situation unworthy of her and ever to be lamented?
911 3 | it. The same thesis also upsets the order providentially
912 16 | labor and effort will be useless if you endeavor to repulse
913 8 | Ecclesiae ratio decurrit, ut Ecclesia super Episcopos
914 8 | precise terms, but is left so vague and so open to arbitrary
915 2 | designs. But all has been in vain - the attentions, good offices,
916 10 | schools, and the working of various charitable associations
917 9 | who still constitute the vast majority in France, of the
918 3 | esset, aut curam religionis velut alienam nihilque profuturam
919 14 | the hope, a thousand times verified, that Jesus Christ will
920 3 | profuturam abjicere.... Ecclesiam vero, quam Deus ipse constituit,
921 8 | temporum et successionum vices Episcoporum ordinatio et
922 8 | Hence, through all the vicissitudes of time and circumstance,
923 [Title]| Cardinal Archbishop of Paris; Victor Lucien Lecot, Cardinal Archbishop
924 15 | bring all the force of that vigilant and indefatigable zeal of
925 8 | these provisions seriously violate the rights of the Church,
926 13 | reprove and condemn it as violating the natural law, the law
927 5 | the Apostolic See by this violation of the law of nations, and
928 2 | at last in effecting by violence what they have long desired,
929 1 | law which, by sundering violently the old ties that linked
930 14 | all kinds that are to be visited on you, Venerable Brethren,
931 3 | ipse constituit, ab actione vitae excludere, a legibus, ab
932 5 | international treaties, viz., the law of nations which
933 2 | it Our duty to raise Our voice and to open Our heart to
934 13 | reprove and condemn the law voted in France for the separation
935 13 | against the introduction, the voting and the promulgation of
936 16 | Catholicise" France. They want to root out from your hearts
937 15 | on all sides; instruct, warn, encourage, console your
938 2 | While it was untiring in warning those who were at the head
939 17 | special office it is to watch over religion, with your
940 9 | in a thousand different ways. Thus, for instance, the
941 2 | them over and over again to weigh well the immensity of the
942 [Title]| Text~ ~To Our Well-beloved Sons, Francois Marie Richard,
943 15 | its honor, given so many well-known proofs. But above all things
944 | whatever
945 | whereas
946 | While
947 9 | of the same kind in which wide scope is left to arbitrary
948 16 | which everybody should be willing to sacrifice something of
949 15 | perfect union of hearts and wills. It is Our firm intention
950 14 | they are always at last wisely abrogated, when they are
951 2 | Catholic nation and of the wishes of all who think rightly.
952 1 | nothing new or strange, witnesses as you have been of the
953 1 | army, the navy, and in a word from all public establishments.
954 9 | education, in charitable works, but it must also deprive
955 8 | truth admirably when he writes: "Our Lord, whose precepts
956 10 | 10. In addition to the wrongs and injuries to which we
957 8 | judging (Matt. xxviii. 18-20; xvi. 18, 19; xviii. 17; Tit.
958 8 | xxviii. 18-20; xvi. 18, 19; xviii. 17; Tit. ii. 15; 11. Cor.
959 8 | gubernetur" (St. Cyprian, Epist. xxvii.-xxviii. ad Lapsos ii. i.)
960 19 | s, on February 11 in the year 1906, the third of Our Pontificate. ~
961 1 | followed in France of late years. For you, Venerable Brethren,
962 16 | placing your heads under their yoke, for they themselves have
963 3 | laws, the education of the young, the family, is to commit
964 15 | vigilant and indefatigable zeal of which the French Episcopate
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