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1 10 | 10. This persecution which
2 11 | 11. As for the ecclesiastical
3 12 | 12. And yet that is precisely
4 13 | 13. We have also been accused
5 14 | 14. As regards the annual declaration
6 15 | 15. From the point of view
7 16 | 16. It is easy to see, Venerable
8 17 | 17. The vague and ambiguous
9 18 | 18. It is in vain that after
10 19 | 19. As for Ourselves, We have
11 21 | the Epiphany, January 6, 1907, the fourth year of Our
12 2 | 2. These sufferings, Venerable
13 20 | 20. And, lastly, history will
14 21 | 21. Confident that the Immaculate
15 3 | 3. But with these cruel sorrows
16 4 | 4. Recourse to God, so infinitely
17 5 | 5. The war will be bitter
18 7 | 7. Our enemies have on this
19 8 | 8. The Church, they said,
20 9 | 9. Nor has she any desire
21 11 | permissible to the Church to abandon or surrender it; she could
22 4 | necessary because, far from abating, the struggle grows fiercer
23 9 | be necessary she will be able to meet it. But persecution
24 | above
25 14 | conditions, it was impossible to accept the declaration. There remains
26 19 | As for Ourselves, We have accomplished Our duty, as every other
27 8 | prayers. What a strange accusation! Founded by Him who came
28 19 | conduct. We could not have acted otherwise without trampling
29 11 | finally to assert that in thus acting there was no spoliation
30 | actually
31 11 | transparent sophistry but adding insult to the most cruel
32 15 | long; whilst an arbitrary administrative regulates the conditions
33 21 | you from the most holy and adorable Trinity better days, and
34 12 | to the Church, notably as affecting the ecclesiastical hierarchy,
35 8 | religious war least of all. To affirm the contrary is an outrageous
36 | after
37 10 | most venerable by their age and virtues, driven the
38 16 | you, that this law is an aggravation of the Law of Separation,
39 8 | and is summoning to her aid the violent persecution
40 11 | the cost of poverty, to allow the work of God to be touched
41 | alone
42 17 | 17. The vague and ambiguous wording of some of its articles
43 | among
44 15 | this law has organized anarchy; it is the consecration
45 14 | 14. As regards the annual declaration demanded for
46 12 | they are made judicially answerable to the civil authority.
47 | anything
48 13 | said that We had refused to approve in France what We had approved
49 13 | approve in France what We had approved in Germany. But this charge
50 15 | for how long; whilst an arbitrary administrative regulates
51 [Title]| BRETHREN, THE CARDINALS,~ARCHBISHOPS, AND BISHOPS OF FRANCE~AND
52 8 | they said, is seeking to arouse religious war in France,
53 17 | ambiguous wording of some of its articles places the end pursued by
54 11 | maitre," and finally to assert that in thus acting there
55 14 | be odious to attempt to assimilate them - the Church could,
56 17 | responsibility. But instead of assuming that responsibility, they
57 18 | seek to lead public opinion astray and to make the responsibility
58 3 | springs from your unshakable attachment to the Church, from your
59 8 | Parliament, as well as in the attacks which have been progressively
60 17 | France, but without people's attending to it or even noticing it.
61 3 | the Father of mercies, the Author of all good.~
62 3 | first, for we were too well aware of the nobleness and generosity
63 | away
64 4 | would supernaturally bring back his wearied eyes to heaven.
65 12 | hierarchy, the inviolable base given to His work by the
66 3 | fear that on the field of battle disunion would find its
67 | become
68 | beforehand
69 | behind
70 11 | by violence. Nobody will believe that she has deliberately
71 15 | severe criticisms from men belonging indiscriminately to all
72 | below
73 8 | repudiating her high mission and belying it before the eyes of all.
74 [Title]| Sons, Health and Apostolic Benediction.~
75 | between
76 5 | 5. The war will be bitter and without respite on the
77 13 | although the German law was blameable on many points, and has
78 21 | We impart Our Apostolic Blessing to you, Venerable Brethren,
79 9 | places. Centuries passed in bloodshed give her the right to say
80 9 | right to say with a holy boldness that she does not fear it,
81 15 | Although her Divine Founder was born poor in a manger, and died
82 | both
83 7 | Specious promises, dishonorable bribes offered to schism, threats
84 8 | if peace of conscience is broken in France, that is not the
85 7 | formulas; others with the most brutal cynicism. Specious promises,
86 5 | probable. Common prudence calls on each of you to prepare
87 21 | days, and as a token of the calm which We firmly hope will
88 7 | misrepresenting and sometimes even by calumniating Our intentions.~
89 8 | contrary is an outrageous calumny.~
90 | cannot
91 15 | consecration of uncertainty and caprice. Uncertainty whether places
92 [Title]| VENERABLE BRETHREN, THE CARDINALS,~ARCHBISHOPS, AND BISHOPS
93 20 | that of duty supernaturally carried out, cost what it may and
94 11 | as well as others. In any case it would have been easy
95 13 | avoid greater evils, the cases were quite different, for
96 7 | some with comprehensive and catching formulas; others with the
97 9 | times and in all places. Centuries passed in bloodshed give
98 14 | recently voted by the two Chambers.~
99 7 | till now they have made no change in their tactics; they have
100 15 | meet all sorts of heavy charges, whilst at the same time
101 1 | in her sorrow. When the children are suffering the heart
102 11 | the position of having to choose between material ruin and
103 17 | responsibility, they try to clear themselves of it and deny
104 7 | play and employed. But your clear-sighted fidelity has wrecked all
105 7 | outset, and with the greatest clearness of vision, they determined
106 19 | the civil power, nor to combat a form of government, but
107 5 | possible and even probable. Common prudence calls on each of
108 1 | precipitated in your noble country compel Us to write to the Church
109 11 | the Church, which was thus compelled to reject them; to transfer
110 15 | confiscation, and it has completed the stripping of the Church.
111 7 | by every means; some with comprehensive and catching formulas; others
112 12 | heavy sacrifices which such condemnation involved.~
113 19 | with Us, dictated to Us Our conduct. We could not have acted
114 11 | for the state has power to confer civil personality on whomsoever
115 12 | himself. Moreover, the law conferred on these associations powers
116 11 | overwhelming motives, what was confided to her keeping, and what
117 21 | 21. Confident that the Immaculate Virgin,
118 3 | this fidelity and union We confidently reckoned from the first,
119 15 | a law of spoliation and confiscation, and it has completed the
120 8 | at meetings, at Masonic congresses, and even in Parliament,
121 15 | organized anarchy; it is the consecration of uncertainty and caprice.
122 11 | between material ruin and consent to the violation of her
123 14 | declaration. There remains for consideration the law recently voted by
124 3 | has, it is true, mingled a consolation than which none can be dearer
125 14 | church have none of the constituent elements proper to public
126 13 | different, for that law contained an express recognition of
127 20 | those of the perishable contingencies of life, and that the supreme
128 8 | least of all. To affirm the contrary is an outrageous calumny.~
129 1 | tenderness break forth more copiously than ever, and flow to you
130 4 | they would uproot at all costs from the hearts of the people;
131 12 | this subject ran directly counter to those rights which, derived
132 15 | has known poverty from her cradle, the property that came
133 11 | unless the Church had by then created within herself a new organism;
134 11 | organism; to subject this creation to conditions in rank opposition
135 15 | manger, and died poor on the Cross, although she herself has
136 14 | But by providing that the "cure or officiating priest would
137 10 | upon the expulsion of the cures from their presbyteries?
138 7 | others with the most brutal cynicism. Specious promises, dishonorable
139 11 | property unclaimed on a given date unless the Church had by
140 11 | more sacred still, of the dead. It was not permissible
141 3 | consolation than which none can be dearer to our heart. It springs
142 17 | destruction of the Church and the dechristianization of France, but without people'
143 8 | proof of it is seen in the declarations made and repeated over and
144 11 | attempts at palliating it by declaring that no moral person existed
145 19 | It will say that We have defended you, Our beloved sons, with
146 19 | fixed immutably upon the defense of the higher rights of
147 11 | will believe that she has deliberately abandoned, except under
148 11 | whomsoever the public good demands that it should be granted
149 17 | clear themselves of it and deny it, and in order to succeed
150 15 | no one had the right to deprive her of it. Her ownership,
151 12 | counter to those rights which, derived from her constitution, are
152 10 | give the name which they deserved to such acts of violence.~
153 19 | listened to that peace so much desired will be restored in the
154 17 | already pointed out, the destruction of the Church and the dechristianization
155 7 | clearness of vision, they determined on their objective; first
156 19 | which you profess with Us, dictated to Us Our conduct. We could
157 | did
158 15 | born poor in a manger, and died poor on the Cross, although
159 13 | evils, the cases were quite different, for that law contained
160 11 | cultuelles to conditions in direct opposition to the divine
161 8 | progressively and systematically directed against her. These facts
162 12 | dispositions on this subject ran directly counter to those rights
163 7 | and in the press, to throw discredit upon Our acts by misrepresenting
164 7 | cynicism. Specious promises, dishonorable bribes offered to schism,
165 7 | of Peter, and then to sow disorder among you. From then till
166 11 | of the Church but only a disposal of the property abandoned
167 15 | placed, or not placed, at the disposition of the clergy and faithful;
168 12 | law in such a way that its dispositions on this subject ran directly
169 3 | that on the field of battle disunion would find its way into
170 15 | worship will be in as many diverse situations as the other.
171 15 | worship, always liable to be diverted from their purpose, are
172 | down
173 15 | the same time there are draconian restrictions upon the resources
174 18 | seeing the evils they have drawn down upon the country, and
175 9 | its infinite wisdom ever draws out of it. Besides, persecution
176 18 | It is in vain that after driving Us to the cruel necessity
177 | During
178 | each
179 2 | sons, now find a sorrowful echo throughout the whole Catholic
180 11 | the maintenance of sacred edifices, for the instruction of
181 6 | invincible, and against it all efforts will break.~
182 19 | the French Church is the elder daughter and an integral
183 14 | none of the constituent elements proper to public meetings,
184 15 | their use, which is rendered eminently precarious. Public worship
185 7 | been brought into play and employed. But your clear-sighted
186 12 | driven Us in Our previous Encyclicals to condemn these associations
187 10 | and petits seminaries, and entered upon the expulsion of the
188 17 | even noticing it. If their enterprise had been really popular,
189 21 | Peter's on the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 1907, the fourth
190 12 | from her constitution, are essential to the Church, notably as
191 11 | it should be granted to, establishments that are Catholic as well
192 1 | Once again the serious events which have been precipitated
193 | everything
194 10 | not within these last days evicted from their houses even the
195 15 | yesterday, this law has already evoked manifold and severe criticisms
196 | except
197 12 | associations powers which are the exclusive prerogative of ecclesiastical
198 11 | declaring that no moral person existed to whom the property might
199 4 | struggle grows fiercer and expands unceasingly. It is no longer
200 13 | for that law contained an express recognition of the Catholic
201 10 | seminaries, and entered upon the expulsion of the cures from their
202 14 | meetings, and it would, in fact, be odious to attempt to
203 8 | directed against her. These facts are undeniable, and no argument
204 8 | Church but of her enemies. Fair-minded men, even though not of
205 18 | responsibility for these evils fall upon Us. Their attempt will
206 19 | conscience, without being false to the oath which We took
207 4 | more necessary because, far from abating, the struggle
208 1 | from the depths of our fatherly heart floods of tenderness
209 21 | Rome, at St. Peter's on the Feast of the Epiphany, January
210 20 | that men here below should feed their minds upon thoughts
211 18 | down upon the country, and feeling the universal reprobation
212 3 | have any fear that on the field of battle disunion would
213 5 | confidence, sure that however fiercely the fight may rage, victory
214 4 | abating, the struggle grows fiercer and expands unceasingly.
215 5 | that however fiercely the fight may rage, victory will in
216 11 | become "sans maitre," and finally to assert that in thus acting
217 3 | Apostolic See, and from the firm and deeply founded unity
218 21 | token of the calm which We firmly hope will follow the storm,
219 19 | tell how We, with Our eyes fixed immutably upon the defense
220 8 | the first to unfurl the flag, but because war was declared
221 17 | order to succeed the better, fling it upon the Church their
222 1 | depths of our fatherly heart floods of tenderness break forth
223 1 | copiously than ever, and flow to you with the greater
224 21 | which We firmly hope will follow the storm, it is from the
225 19 | without trampling under foot Our conscience, without
226 19 | civil power, nor to combat a form of government, but to safeguard
227 11 | not to have subjected the formation of associations cultuelles
228 7 | comprehensive and catching formulas; others with the most brutal
229 1 | floods of tenderness break forth more copiously than ever,
230 15 | Church. Although her Divine Founder was born poor in a manger,
231 21 | Epiphany, January 6, 1907, the fourth year of Our pontificate.~
232 9 | from worshipping God in freedom. The Church then cannot
233 9 | suffering, and there we have a fresh reason why the Church, who
234 14 | Nevertheless - though in principle gatherings of the faithful in church
235 13 | justice. For although the German law was blameable on many
236 13 | what We had approved in Germany. But this charge is equally
237 21 | and Spouse of the Holy Ghost, will obtain for you from
238 3 | magnificent spectacle you are now giving to the world; and with our
239 1 | ought more than ever to go out to them. And so, now
240 5 | who wage it. That as it goes on harder trials than those
241 19 | nor to combat a form of government, but to safeguard the inviolable
242 10 | the seminarists from the grands and petits seminaries, and
243 7 | the outset, and with the greatest clearness of vision, they
244 15 | the other. On the other hand, there is an obligation
245 11 | whom the property might be handed over; for the state has
246 5 | in the end remain in your hands.~
247 5 | wage it. That as it goes on harder trials than those which
248 [Title]| Brethren and Beloved Sons, Health and Apostolic Benediction.~
249 4 | uproot at all costs from the hearts of the people; it is any
250 | here
251 | hers
252 | Him
253 | himself
254 5 | than those which you have hitherto known await you is possible
255 20 | cost what it may and so God honored, served and loved, in spite
256 21 | the calm which We firmly hope will follow the storm, it
257 4 | which lifting man above the horizon of this world would supernaturally
258 20 | hesitated to tell you that the hour for sacrifice had struck,
259 10 | days evicted from their houses even the Bishops who are
260 | however
261 20 | and intangible joy of the human soul on earth is that of
262 19 | have neither wished to humiliate the civil power, nor to
263 14 | ministry a situation so humiliating and vague that, under such
264 4 | wearied eyes to heaven. Illusion on the subject is no longer
265 21 | 21. Confident that the Immaculate Virgin, Daughter of the
266 19 | We, with Our eyes fixed immutably upon the defense of the
267 21 | depths of Our heart that We impart Our Apostolic Blessing to
268 11 | having abandoned, it is important to remark that this property
269 14 | administration," there has been imposed on ministers of religion
270 14 | such conditions, it was impossible to accept the declaration.
271 13 | accused of prejudice and inconsistency. It has been said that We
272 2 | your trials and seems to increase day by day.~
273 15 | criticisms from men belonging indiscriminately to all political parties
274 15 | her of it. Her ownership, indisputable from every point of view,
275 9 | which Providence in its infinite wisdom ever draws out of
276 4 | 4. Recourse to God, so infinitely good, is all the more necessary
277 10 | refused, is now being actually inflicted upon her. Have they not
278 9 | itself an evil, for it is injustice and prevents man from worshipping
279 | instead
280 11 | sacred edifices, for the instruction of her clergy, and for the
281 11 | transparent sophistry but adding insult to the most cruel spoliation.
282 20 | and that the supreme and intangible joy of the human soul on
283 19 | the elder daughter and an integral part, is respect for its
284 7 | even by calumniating Our intentions.~
285 19 | it has pleased Heaven to invest Us, in spite of Our unworthiness,
286 6 | twofold union will make you invincible, and against it all efforts
287 19 | respect for its hierarchy and inviolability of its property and liberty;
288 12 | which such condemnation involved.~
289 21 | the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 1907, the fourth year
290 15 | criticisms alone are sufficient judgment of the law.~
291 14 | an occupier without any judicial title or power to perform
292 12 | jurisdiction but they are made judicially answerable to the civil
293 12 | withdrawn from ecclesiastical jurisdiction but they are made judicially
294 16 | sons, from what We have just recalled to you, that this
295 13 | lacking in foundation and justice. For although the German
296 11 | what was confided to her keeping, and what was so necessary
297 13 | But this charge is equally lacking in foundation and justice.
298 18 | necessity of rejecting the laws that have been made - seeing
299 18 | round them - they seek to lead public opinion astray and
300 | least
301 14 | it did not offer the full legal security which one had a
302 | let
303 15 | places of worship, always liable to be diverted from their
304 19 | inviolability of its property and liberty; that if Our demand had
305 20 | perishable contingencies of life, and that the supreme and
306 4 | it is any belief which lifting man above the horizon of
307 17 | by our enemies in a new light. Their object is, as we
308 | like
309 19 | and that, the day it is listened to that peace so much desired
310 15 | them or not, and for how long; whilst an arbitrary administrative
311 19 | the inviolable work of Our Lord and Master Jesus Christ.
312 20 | God honored, served and loved, in spite of all.~
313 20 | sure beforehand of your magnanimous generosity. We have not
314 3 | joy that We feel at the magnificent spectacle you are now giving
315 11 | exercise of worship, for the maintenance of sacred edifices, for
316 11 | as if it had become "sans maitre," and finally to assert
317 15 | Founder was born poor in a manger, and died poor on the Cross,
318 15 | this law has already evoked manifold and severe criticisms from
319 8 | the Press, at meetings, at Masonic congresses, and even in
320 11 | having to choose between material ruin and consent to the
321 7 | without rest and by every means; some with comprehensive
322 | meanwhile
323 3 | Our heart to the Father of mercies, the Author of all good.~
324 8 | reconcile man with God, a Messenger of peace upon earth, the
325 15 | by which they are to be met. Thus, though but of yesterday,
326 | might
327 4 | want to tear out of the mind and heart of man.~
328 20 | below should feed their minds upon thoughts of a higher
329 3 | Master has, it is true, mingled a consolation than which
330 14 | the very exercise of their ministry a situation so humiliating
331 7 | have on this been under no misapprehensions. From the outset, and with
332 7 | discredit upon Our acts by misrepresenting and sometimes even by calumniating
333 11 | it by declaring that no moral person existed to whom the
334 21 | Daughter of the Father, Mother of the Word, and Spouse
335 9 | Church, who is the best of mothers, will never seek it.~
336 11 | of the most overwhelming motives, what was confided to her
337 19 | the oath which We took on mounting the chair of Peter, and
338 | much
339 18 | driving Us to the cruel necessity of rejecting the laws that
340 | neither
341 | never
342 | Nevertheless
343 1 | been precipitated in your noble country compel Us to write
344 3 | were too well aware of the nobleness and generosity of the French
345 | Nobody
346 | nonetheless
347 12 | essential to the Church, notably as affecting the ecclesiastical
348 17 | attending to it or even noticing it. If their enterprise
349 19 | without being false to the oath which We took on mounting
350 7 | they determined on their objective; first to separate you from
351 15 | other hand, there is an obligation to meet all sorts of heavy
352 21 | of the Holy Ghost, will obtain for you from the most holy
353 14 | be anything more than an occupier without any judicial title
354 14 | and it would, in fact, be odious to attempt to assimilate
355 14 | exercise of worship, it did not offer the full legal security
356 7 | promises, dishonorable bribes offered to schism, threats and violence,
357 15 | view, had been, moreover, officially sanctioned by the state,
358 14 | providing that the "cure or officiating priest would no longer,"
359 | often
360 | Once
361 18 | they seek to lead public opinion astray and to make the responsibility
362 11 | created within herself a new organism; to subject this creation
363 11 | constitution, which is of divine origin, that the Church refused,
364 1 | the heart of the Father ought more than ever to go out
365 | Ourselves
366 8 | affirm the contrary is an outrageous calumny.~
367 7 | misapprehensions. From the outset, and with the greatest clearness
368 11 | the pressure of the most overwhelming motives, what was confided
369 15 | to deprive her of it. Her ownership, indisputable from every
370 11 | spite of vain attempts at palliating it by declaring that no
371 8 | congresses, and even in Parliament, as well as in the attacks
372 11 | remark that this property was partly the patrimony of the poor
373 9 | in all places. Centuries passed in bloodshed give her the
374 8 | all. To this mission of patient sweetness and love she rests
375 11 | ministers. It was only when perfidiously placed in the position of
376 14 | judicial title or power to perform any acts of administration,"
377 20 | higher sort than those of the perishable contingencies of life, and
378 11 | of the dead. It was not permissible to the Church to abandon
379 11 | declaring that no moral person existed to whom the property
380 11 | has power to confer civil personality on whomsoever the public
381 10 | seminarists from the grands and petits seminaries, and entered
382 2 | and We sympathize with a pity which grows with your trials
383 21 | year of Our pontificate.~PIUS X~
384 7 | these have been brought into play and employed. But your clear-sighted
385 19 | charge with which it has pleased Heaven to invest Us, in
386 6 | 6. The pledge of this victory is your
387 17 | object is, as we have already pointed out, the destruction of
388 13 | law was blameable on many points, and has been merely tolerated
389 15 | indiscriminately to all political parties and all shades of
390 19 | duty, as every other Roman Pontiff would have done. The high
391 21 | the fourth year of Our pontificate.~PIUS X~
392 17 | enterprise had been really popular, as they pretend it to be,
393 11 | perfidiously placed in the position of having to choose between
394 12 | conferred on these associations powers which are the exclusive
395 3 | world; and with our high praise of you before the whole
396 8 | has been the object of her prayers. What a strange accusation!
397 15 | which is rendered eminently precarious. Public worship will be
398 1 | serious events which have been precipitated in your noble country compel
399 12 | 12. And yet that is precisely what was done in the matter
400 13 | have also been accused of prejudice and inconsistency. It has
401 5 | calls on each of you to prepare for them. And this you will
402 12 | which are the exclusive prerogative of ecclesiastical authority
403 10 | of the cures from their presbyteries? The whole Catholic world
404 11 | abandoned, except under the pressure of the most overwhelming
405 17 | really popular, as they pretend it to be, they would not
406 9 | for it is injustice and prevents man from worshipping God
407 12 | which have driven Us in Our previous Encyclicals to condemn these
408 14 | the "cure or officiating priest would no longer," in his
409 14 | Nevertheless - though in principle gatherings of the faithful
410 5 | you is possible and even probable. Common prudence calls on
411 19 | faith itself, which you profess with Us, dictated to Us
412 8 | attacks which have been progressively and systematically directed
413 7 | brutal cynicism. Specious promises, dishonorable bribes offered
414 8 | That is the truth and the proof of it is seen in the declarations
415 17 | most striking of all the proofs that their evil work does
416 14 | the constituent elements proper to public meetings, and
417 12 | exercise of worship and of the proprietorship and administration of property.
418 9 | a view to the good which Providence in its infinite wisdom ever
419 14 | this declaration. But by providing that the "cure or officiating
420 10 | is reproached as having provoked, and which they declare
421 5 | and even probable. Common prudence calls on each of you to
422 15 | to be diverted from their purpose, are meanwhile to be placed,
423 17 | would not have hesitated to pursue it with visor raised and
424 8 | there is a struggle on the question of religion in your beloved
425 13 | greater evils, the cases were quite different, for that law
426 5 | however fiercely the fight may rage, victory will in the end
427 17 | to pursue it with visor raised and to take the whole responsibility.
428 12 | dispositions on this subject ran directly counter to those
429 11 | creation to conditions in rank opposition to the divine
430 3 | would find its way into your ranks. Equally great is the joy
431 17 | their enterprise had been really popular, as they pretend
432 9 | and there we have a fresh reason why the Church, who is the
433 12 | authority. These are the reasons which have driven Us in
434 16 | from what We have just recalled to you, that this law is
435 | recently
436 3 | and union We confidently reckoned from the first, for we were
437 13 | law contained an express recognition of the Catholic hierarchy,
438 8 | though not of our faith, recognize that if there is a struggle
439 8 | peace to the world and to reconcile man with God, a Messenger
440 4 | 4. Recourse to God, so infinitely good,
441 14 | 14. As regards the annual declaration demanded
442 15 | arbitrary administrative regulates the conditions of their
443 3 | deeply founded unity that reigns amongst you. On this fidelity
444 11 | which was thus compelled to reject them; to transfer this property
445 18 | to the cruel necessity of rejecting the laws that have been
446 14 | accept the declaration. There remains for consideration the law
447 11 | abandoned, it is important to remark that this property was partly
448 20 | sacrifice had struck, it is to remind the world, in the name of
449 15 | conditions of their use, which is rendered eminently precarious. Public
450 8 | the declarations made and repeated over and over again in the
451 10 | persecution which she is reproached as having provoked, and
452 18 | and feeling the universal reprobation which, like a slow tide,
453 8 | only seek religious war by repudiating her high mission and belying
454 15 | uncertainty whether they shall be reserved from them or not, and for
455 15 | draconian restrictions upon the resources by which they are to be
456 19 | and an integral part, is respect for its hierarchy and inviolability
457 5 | will be bitter and without respite on the part of those who
458 17 | their evil work does not respond to the wishes of the country.~
459 7 | pursued their end without rest and by every means; some
460 19 | so much desired will be restored in the country.~
461 15 | time there are draconian restrictions upon the resources by which
462 8 | patient sweetness and love she rests and will remain always faithful.
463 18 | which, like a slow tide, is rising round them - they seek to
464 19 | Our duty, as every other Roman Pontiff would have done.
465 21 | French people.~Given at Rome, at St. Peter's on the Feast
466 18 | like a slow tide, is rising round them - they seek to lead
467 11 | choose between material ruin and consent to the violation
468 20 | tell you that the hour for sacrifice had struck, it is to remind
469 12 | cultuelles in spite of the heavy sacrifices which such condemnation
470 10 | watched this spectacle with sadness, and has not hesitated to
471 19 | form of government, but to safeguard the inviolable work of Our
472 | same
473 15 | been, moreover, officially sanctioned by the state, which could
474 11 | parties as if it had become "sans maitre," and finally to
475 19 | given to the Church by our Savior Jesus Christ.~We await,
476 7 | dishonorable bribes offered to schism, threats and violence, all
477 6 | amongst yourselves, and secondly with this Apostolic See.
478 14 | not offer the full legal security which one had a right to
479 18 | laws that have been made - seeing the evils they have drawn
480 8 | The Church, they said, is seeking to arouse religious war
481 | seems
482 8 | truth and the proof of it is seen in the declarations made
483 10 | from the grands and petits seminaries, and entered upon the expulsion
484 10 | and virtues, driven the seminarists from the grands and petits
485 16 | aggravation of the Law of Separation, and we can not therefore
486 1 | Once again the serious events which have been precipitated
487 11 | which they were supposed to serve.~
488 20 | may and so God honored, served and loved, in spite of all.~
489 15 | already evoked manifold and severe criticisms from men belonging
490 15 | political parties and all shades of religious belief. These
491 | shall
492 7 | separate you from Us was to shatter your confidence in the Apostolic
493 5 | them. And this you will do simply, valiantly, and full of
494 14 | exercise of their ministry a situation so humiliating and vague
495 15 | will be in as many diverse situations as the other. On the other
496 18 | reprobation which, like a slow tide, is rising round them -
497 | sometimes
498 11 | argument of transparent sophistry but adding insult to the
499 1 | and to comfort her in her sorrow. When the children are suffering
500 2 | beloved sons, now find a sorrowful echo throughout the whole
501 3 | 3. But with these cruel sorrows the Master has, it is true,
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