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502 20 | upon thoughts of a higher sort than those of the perishable
503 15 | an obligation to meet all sorts of heavy charges, whilst
504 20 | intangible joy of the human soul on earth is that of duty
505 7 | Chair of Peter, and then to sow disorder among you. From
506 7 | the most brutal cynicism. Specious promises, dishonorable bribes
507 21 | Mother of the Word, and Spouse of the Holy Ghost, will
508 3 | dearer to our heart. It springs from your unshakable attachment
509 21 | people.~Given at Rome, at St. Peter's on the Feast of
510 4 | behind the supernatural stands God, and because it is God
511 21 | firmly hope will follow the storm, it is from the depths of
512 8 | object of her prayers. What a strange accusation! Founded by Him
513 19 | beloved sons, with all the strength of Our great love; that
514 17 | victim. This is the most striking of all the proofs that their
515 15 | and it has completed the stripping of the Church. Although
516 20 | the hour for sacrifice had struck, it is to remind the world,
517 11 | for the state not to have subjected the formation of associations
518 1 | so, now that We see you suffer, from the depths of our
519 9 | persecution is, for she has suffered it in all times and in all
520 2 | 2. These sufferings, Venerable Brethren and
521 15 | These criticisms alone are sufficient judgment of the law.~
522 8 | religious war in France, and is summoning to her aid the violent persecution
523 11 | her clergy, and for the support of her ministers. It was
524 11 | the Church which they were supposed to serve.~
525 20 | contingencies of life, and that the supreme and intangible joy of the
526 11 | the Church to abandon or surrender it; she could only let it
527 1 | the Church of France to sustain her in her trials, and to
528 2 | more deeply still and We sympathize with a pity which grows
529 8 | have been progressively and systematically directed against her. These
530 7 | made no change in their tactics; they have pursued their
531 17 | with visor raised and to take the whole responsibility.
532 11 | she could only let it be taken from her by violence. Nobody
533 4 | is God that they want to tear out of the mind and heart
534 1 | fatherly heart floods of tenderness break forth more copiously
535 [Title]| Text~ ~TO OUR VENERABLE BRETHREN,
536 3 | the whole Church, We give thanks from the depths of Our heart
537 | themselves
538 | therefore
539 20 | name of the Master of all things, that men here below should
540 7 | these attempts. There upon, thinking that the best way to separate
541 11 | transfer this property to third parties as if it had become "
542 20 | should feed their minds upon thoughts of a higher sort than those
543 7 | bribes offered to schism, threats and violence, all these
544 | throughout
545 7 | tribune and in the press, to throw discredit upon Our acts
546 18 | reprobation which, like a slow tide, is rising round them -
547 7 | disorder among you. From then till now they have made no change
548 15 | charges, whilst at the same time there are draconian restrictions
549 9 | she has suffered it in all times and in all places. Centuries
550 14 | occupier without any judicial title or power to perform any
551 21 | Trinity better days, and as a token of the calm which We firmly
552 14 | have brought herself to tolerate this declaration. But by
553 13 | points, and has been merely tolerated in order to avoid greater
554 | too
555 19 | false to the oath which We took on mounting the chair of
556 11 | allow the work of God to be touched by her. Her property, then,
557 19 | acted otherwise without trampling under foot Our conscience,
558 11 | compelled to reject them; to transfer this property to third parties
559 11 | is not merely argument of transparent sophistry but adding insult
560 7 | not hesitated, from the tribune and in the press, to throw
561 21 | the most holy and adorable Trinity better days, and as a token
562 19 | peace would not have been troubled in France, and that, the
563 3 | sorrows the Master has, it is true, mingled a consolation than
564 8 | this warfare. That is the truth and the proof of it is seen
565 17 | that responsibility, they try to clear themselves of it
566 8 | against her. During the last twenty-five years she has had to undergo
567 14 | law recently voted by the two Chambers.~
568 6 | this Apostolic See. This twofold union will make you invincible,
569 4 | grows fiercer and expands unceasingly. It is no longer only the
570 11 | ecclesiastical property unclaimed on a given date unless the
571 8 | twenty-five years she has had to undergo this warfare. That is the
572 3 | to the Church, from your unfailing fidelity to this Apostolic
573 8 | Church was the first to unfurl the flag, but because war
574 3 | firm and deeply founded unity that reigns amongst you.
575 18 | country, and feeling the universal reprobation which, like
576 | unless
577 3 | heart. It springs from your unshakable attachment to the Church,
578 19 | invest Us, in spite of Our unworthiness, as also the Christian faith
579 4 | Christian faith that they would uproot at all costs from the hearts
580 15 | the conditions of their use, which is rendered eminently
581 5 | this you will do simply, valiantly, and full of confidence,
582 19 | then, without fear, the verdict of history. History will
583 | very
584 17 | it upon the Church their victim. This is the most striking
585 15 | which could not consequently violate it. From the point of view
586 19 | chair of Peter, and without violating the Catholic hierarchy,
587 11 | ruin and consent to the violation of her constitution, which
588 21 | Confident that the Immaculate Virgin, Daughter of the Father,
589 10 | venerable by their age and virtues, driven the seminarists
590 7 | the greatest clearness of vision, they determined on their
591 17 | hesitated to pursue it with visor raised and to take the whole
592 14 | consideration the law recently voted by the two Chambers.~
593 5 | on the part of those who wage it. That as it goes on harder
594 4 | because it is God that they want to tear out of the mind
595 8 | has had to undergo this warfare. That is the truth and the
596 10 | whole Catholic world has watched this spectacle with sadness,
597 4 | supernaturally bring back his wearied eyes to heaven. Illusion
598 | whom
599 11 | confer civil personality on whomsoever the public good demands
600 | why
601 9 | Providence in its infinite wisdom ever draws out of it. Besides,
602 8 | The Church then does not wish for war, and religious war
603 19 | rights of God, have neither wished to humiliate the civil power,
604 17 | does not respond to the wishes of the country.~
605 12 | only are these associations withdrawn from ecclesiastical jurisdiction
606 21 | the Father, Mother of the Word, and Spouse of the Holy
607 17 | The vague and ambiguous wording of some of its articles
608 9 | injustice and prevents man from worshipping God in freedom. The Church
609 7 | clear-sighted fidelity has wrecked all these attempts. There
610 11 | property, then, has been wrested from her; it was not she
611 1 | noble country compel Us to write to the Church of France
612 21 | of Our pontificate.~PIUS X~
613 21 | January 6, 1907, the fourth year of Our pontificate.~PIUS
614 8 | During the last twenty-five years she has had to undergo this
615 15 | met. Thus, though but of yesterday, this law has already evoked
616 | yet
617 | yourselves
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