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1002 2 | veils, but told as they really happened; nay, even that
1003 1 | follows his sound powers of reasoning, his sense of reality, and
1004 2 | and his repentance; the rebellion and death of Absalom and
1005 2 | reduced to images, being rebels, as it were, to scenic representation,
1006 [Title]| consciously and effectively, receive from the former a definite
1007 2 | right intention, rarely receives the stamp of an experience
1008 1 | psychology, studying the hidden recesses of the subconscious and
1009 1 | placed at its service. The reciprocity of influence between the
1010 2 | film; but it is equally recognised by the specialists that
1011 2 | in other words, he has reconciled the relativity of the ideal
1012 2 | from such films, to soothe, recreate and refresh the spirit.~
1013 [Title]| Cinema is often the sole recreation after work, and among the
1014 3 | positive foundation of the Redeemer, Who has entrusted to her
1015 1 | solved. ~It will perhaps redound to the disgrace of our age
1016 1 | element, which has been refined not only by the contribution
1017 2 | shadow from which light may reflect more clearly. To this psychological
1018 2 | of goodness and beauty, reflecting back with transparent sincerity
1019 3 | from the cinema than some reflection of the true, the good, the
1020 2 | serious reader becomes more reflective, more clear-sighted, his
1021 2 | truth, goodness, beauty -- refractions, as it were, across the
1022 2 | to soothe, recreate and refresh the spirit.~With equal pleasure
1023 1 | after sleep, it restores him refreshed, and as it were, renewed,
1024 2 | remains outside the ideal region.~It is clear that the content,
1025 1 | perspective the unsullied regions of the ideal film. ~Of this
1026 1 | back to view the past with regret, nostalgia, repentance,
1027 1 | by the common laws which regulate ordinary human activities;
1028 1 | with earnest intent, you reject whatever debases human dignity,
1029 1 | but also by analyzing its related psychical "activation",
1030 1 | manifested in Nature, his social relations with his fellow men and
1031 II | affirm that the ideal is a relative concept, meaning something
1032 2 | instructional purposes are relatively rare; more usually, perhaps
1033 1 | for relief, forgetfulness, relaxation; perhaps also for flight
1034 1 | hall, more light-hearted, relaxed, and better within himself,
1035 2 | seek from philosophy and religion its explanation and cure;
1036 2 | struggle between two lives religiously different in their orientation,
1037 2 | representing the various types of religiousness, derived either from real
1038 3 | beginning of this discourse, We remarked that the film producer,
1039 3 | divisive tendencies, to remind men of whatever good has
1040 1 | without changing it or removing it from reality. An excellent
1041 1 | to him in maintaining and rendering effective his self-expression
1042 1 | refreshed, and as it were, renewed, to the bustle of reality,
1043 3 | Thus the cinema, without renouncing its own characteristics
1044 3 | change, which often are repeated at intervals in the course
1045 2 | which is also perfect? The reply ought to be in the affirmative,
1046 1 | kindly presented to Us, it is reported that, during the year 1954,
1047 3 | by the bonds of love in repose and in struggle, in joy
1048 2 | sakes; if the wrongdoing represented is at least in fact, approved;
1049 2 | produced with the purpose of representing the various types of religiousness,
1050 2 | even films morally above reproach can yet be spiritually harmful
1051 1 | artist that he does not reproduce reality in a mechanical
1052 1 | share responsibility, what a reproof would rise therefrom against
1053 3 | begets hindrances or even repugnances, it will always be to the
1054 2 | similar type is much in request and appreciated by the public,
1055 2 | completely calmed: the prime requisite here is truth, which however
1056 1 | applying the method of research and analysis, the fruits
1057 2 | communication, types of houses and residences in different ages, gathered
1058 1 | the strength of will, to resist a captivating suggestion,
1059 2 | capable of controlling and resisting it.~But when none of these
1060 1 | anticipate an emotion, to resolve a problem. Thus, through
1061 3 | norms.~Using the artistic resources at their command, capable
1062 3 | and again, of children, respectful to their parents, earnest
1063 1 | described, but treats it respectfully. Even that is not enough!
1064 1 | that it may enjoy a brief respite from the pressure of real
1065 1 | therefore, ought to know how to respond to this expectation, and
1066 1 | understanding of the spectator in responding to his legitimate expectations
1067 1 | interests? ~The watchfulness and response of public authorities, fully
1068 3 | simplicity and decorum. For the rest, We have already expressed
1069 3 | lofty and delicate task to restore to men an esteem for and
1070 1 | dreams: but, after sleep, it restores him refreshed, and as it
1071 2 | and surgical processes for restoring him to health, offer objects
1072 2 | fidelity, and accompanied by a restrained commentary of words and
1073 2 | considerations which of necessity restrict absolute freedom of choice.~
1074 3 | its origin to nature, but rests on the positive foundation
1075 2 | already given some good results in films whose content is
1076 1 | starting from the shaky retakes of a train arriving, to
1077 [Title]| considerable profits - it returns to the industrialists. ~
1078 2 | are not infrequent - which reveal the secrets of the animal
1079 3 | cinema and on its ideals by revealing to you Our deepest feelings.
1080 2 | the attentive observer, reveals an inexhaustible wealth
1081 1 | his fellow men and Divine revelation.~Since the moving picture,
1082 1 | s full development. ~In reverting, therefore, to this matter
1083 2 | considerations now return for review, dealt with, however, in
1084 1 | columns of some newspapers reviews which are too subservient
1085 2 | plots remains wide, rich, rewarding and attractive, no matter
1086 2 | What a testimony to the richness and manifold variety of
1087 2 | drive away the idea of a rigorously scholastic instruction,
1088 1 | high points and low, its rises and falls, it moves amidst
1089 2 | presume, nor should it run the risk of challenging plots which
1090 1 | severe tests, but by the keen rivaliry established among them in
1091 1 | and different ages, which, river-like, bear him from mountain
1092 2 | inhospitable deserts, on rivers and in the depths of the
1093 3 | duties which open for it the road towards the fulfillment
1094 3 | any loss, can fulfill its role to the community's advantage,
1095 1 | small, goes down to the roots of the spirit more or less
1096 2 | agricultural systems, the traffic routes by land, sea and air, means
1097 2 | criterion applies here that must rule any like artistic medium:
1098 2 | cannot presume, nor should it run the risk of challenging
1099 2 | quality of water, the violent rush of waterfalls, the distinctive
1100 3 | struggle, in joy and in sacrifice.~All that can be gotten
1101 1 | families is to be effectively safeguarded, it is most certainly right
1102 2 | even of prudence and the safeguarding of human life. Yet, in spite
1103 3 | or, as is more commonly said, constructive; this in conformity
1104 1 | events as only he can who has sailed afar.~The ideal moving picture
1105 2 | presented for their own sakes; if the wrongdoing represented
1106 3 | the Saviour confirmed and sanctified.~Meanwhile, much more than
1107 2 | melancholy of the desert sands, the loveliness of flowers,
1108 1 | from the precepts of his sane thinking and better will.
1109 2 | having very inadequately satisfied his insatiable thirst; yet
1110 3 | Creator willed, what the Saviour confirmed and sanctified.~
1111 2 | must one treat, evil and scandal, which without doubt have
1112 3 | also, the not infrequent scandals, have induced not a few
1113 1 | him, by the thread of a scarcely perceptible logic, or even
1114 2 | from real actions or from scenes portrayed with that end
1115 2 | the idea of a rigorously scholastic instruction, can, with respect
1116 1 | observation devotees of this science study the process of action
1117 2 | according to the exact range of scientific data, presented in a new
1118 3 | their ideals, serious in searching for the better things, always
1119 II | of multiple and diverse secondary elements, which are demanded
1120 2 | infrequent - which reveal the secrets of the animal kingdom, and
1121 1 | difficulty at all in producing seductive films, by making them accomplices
1122 1 | using his own manner of seeing and understanding things.~
1123 2 | its proper ordering, of self-control, of enlightenment and strengthening
1124 1 | rendering effective his self-expression in the path of right and
1125 3 | instruct the mind, would lessen selfish and harmful attitudes in
1126 1 | into vulgarity or unseemly sensationalism.~It is not to be denied
1127 1 | there is the world of the senses, with its numerous powers,
1128 1 | sharpen his own psychological sensibility and his own insight by the
1129 2 | even its temporary victory, serves, in relation to the whole,
1130 3 | or whether they merely servilely adopt that outlook to satisfy
1131 3 | everyone's film, because serving the fundamental nature of
1132 | several
1133 1 | chosen in accordance with severe tests, but by the keen rivaliry
1134 1 | differences of age, condition and sex may suggest a difference
1135 2 | background for good, as shadow from which light may reflect
1136 1 | fictions and the unsubstantial shadows of the screen; yet this
1137 1 | perfection, starting from the shaky retakes of a train arriving,
1138 | shall
1139 1 | as ideal, since man has shallows as well as depths. Dull,
1140 2 | fascination in giving artistic shape to wrongdoing, in describing
1141 2 | almost immediately from the shaping and the fixing of the limits
1142 2 | result, capable of being shared with the spectator.~Another
1143 1 | is constantly forced to sharpen his own psychological sensibility
1144 1 | of a hand, a shrug of the shoulders, a half-open door. ~The
1145 2 | in actual production.~We showed previously - speaking of
1146 3 | often called on to assist at showings of films from which, however,
1147 1 | the gesture of a hand, a shrug of the shoulders, a half-open
1148 2 | directed towards Him, a sigh of confidence in Him, an
1149 2 | spectator a world in which no sign is given of God or of men
1150 1 | feelings, at first with silent actors, then with actors
1151 2 | While that shows that a similar type is much in request
1152 3 | knowledge with religious tact, simplicity and decorum. For the rest,
1153 2 | can also represent evil, sin and corruption; but let
1154 2 | reflecting back with transparent sincerity the infinite superabundance
1155 3 | by developing attractive situations: now, of a man, endowed
1156 1 | of this new art, which, sixty years after its first appearance,
1157 1 | apparently insignificant but skilful movements, as, for example,
1158 1 | manifold dramas, tracing skilfully the ideals, the faults,
1159 1 | film has asked technical skill for Nature's colours, then
1160 2 | architectural monuments, the lofty skyscrapers of modern cities.~These
1161 1 | linked it is true by a slight guiding thread, can calm
1162 3 | easily be listened to with a smile tinged with scepticism and
1163 3 | in Our remarks from the so-called political films, those of
1164 3 | demands of plot, or even sober realism make it necessary
1165 [Title]| the Cinema is often the sole recreation after work, and
1166 2 | forms of a high order~Films solely for instructional purposes
1167 2 | of the ocean tempest, the solitude of polar glaciers, the vast
1168 1 | obstacles and avoid erroneous solutions, that he can rise after
1169 1 | given light, it is duly solved. ~It will perhaps redound
1170 | somehow
1171 1 | to be denied that even a somewhat superficial entertainment
1172 2 | drawn from such films, to soothe, recreate and refresh the
1173 1 | Through the whole time of this sort of enchantment, due in large
1174 1 | freedom of movement, the spaciousness of the scene, and by the
1175 1 | makers and producers to spare no effort to free it not
1176 3 | to whom daily the film speaks its powerful language; We
1177 2 | essence of the film, its specific goodness, its proper worth.
1178 [Title]| which it is offered, the speed with which - not without
1179 1 | What is the secret of the spell which makes these same crowds
1180 2 | above reproach can yet be spiritually harmful if they offer the
1181 3 | deepest feelings. As We spoke, there came before Our mind
1182 1 | of attraction of a film springs from its technical qualities,
1183 1 | filled with sound and music. Spurred on by desire to transport
1184 3 | State, however, is something stable and necessary in its nature
1185 1 | appears like a magnificent stage performance. ~But to a
1186 2 | from the objects in many stages of their development, which
1187 2 | even that part of a world stained by guilt is enveloped in
1188 3 | word, wife and mother of stainless conduct, open-minded, capable
1189 2 | intention, rarely receives the stamp of an experience truly lived
1190 3 | so that the image of God, stamped on their souls, may always
1191 2 | cf. Gal. 6, 1)"if you stand take heed lest you fall" (
1192 1 | with the will of one who stands beside the spectator to
1193 1 | unworthy or evil be from the start, and in a special way placed
1194 1 | development towards perfection, starting from the shaky retakes of
1195 2 | branches and goes on to the stately dwellings, the architectural
1196 1 | 500 million in the United States of America, 1,300 million
1197 1 | remarkable phenomenon. In the statistics kindly presented to Us,
1198 1 | to the degree in which it stimulates these processes. ~As a result,
1199 2 | approved; if it is described in stimulating, insidious or corrupting
1200 1 | joy, or encouragement, or stimulus; some are deep, others superficial.
1201 1 | glimmerings of consciousness stir; in the child, as he enters
1202 3 | producers, can, without stopping at abstract teaching, easily
1203 2 | contain in their pages stories of evil, of its action and
1204 1 | development, when great storms alternate with periods of
1205 2 | his advantage part of the stream of the original fullness
1206 2 | self-control, of enlightenment and strengthening of judgement and action;
1207 3 | drew strong arguments to stress the importance of films,
1208 2 | polar glaciers, the vast stretch of virgin forests, the melancholy
1209 3 | aptitudes and actions, to strive for a common goal, which
1210 1 | and at the present time is striving with daring ingenuity to
1211 1 | deliberately applied to produce a stronger impression on the spectators.
1212 2 | of tragedy. The reader is struck by the unusual artistic
1213 3 | The family~ The family. In subdividing Our discussion, let Us give
1214 2 | take religious topics as subject-matter of plot-films? The answer
1215 1 | mechanical way, nor does he subordinate himself to the merely technical
1216 1 | anticipation of the action's subsequent development; it is this
1217 1 | newspapers reviews which are too subservient and favourable. But all
1218 1 | because of its more varied and subtle means, draws its typical
1219 2 | frequent production and the success of films based on the natural
1220 2 | a way that one does not suffer at the expense of the other.~~
1221 3 | its own characteristics or suffering any loss, can fulfill its
1222 2 | Such conclusions are not suggested only by Holy Scripture,
1223 2 | and its principles can be summarised thus: what it offers in
1224 1 | ability and your vocation summon you. God grant that all
1225 1 | almost magical power of summoning into the darkness of its
1226 1 | broad plains baked by the sun.~Thus vary the conditions
1227 1 | with periods of marvellous sunshine; in the adult, frequently
1228 2 | transparent sincerity the infinite superabundance of the perfection and beauty
1229 2 | psychological point of view, are superb masterpieces. It is enough
1230 3 | embraces a whole spiritual and supernatural world, completely escapes
1231 1 | ligaments that join together and support the limbs and parts of his
1232 3 | Masterpiece of the Creator's supreme wisdom and goodness, from
1233 1 | even if they remain on the surface and do not penetrate very
1234 2 | and the therapeutic and surgical processes for restoring
1235 1 | can bring him under the sway of darkness and depravation,
1236 1 | has thus brought about a swift development towards perfection,
1237 3 | aim, a party, a class, a system. At the bottom of all these
1238 2 | of work, the agricultural systems, the traffic routes by land,
1239 2 | notions.~And yet, if one takes account of the thirst for
1240 | Taking
1241 1 | transparent outline of the tale or picture. Indeed, the
1242 3 | dedicated your activity, your talents, your daily labour. We would
1243 II | of all a premise: can one talk of an ideal moving picture?
1244 1 | from the daily life and tasks of the hearers, with a fidelity
1245 1 | specialists what belongs to the technical-aesthetic aspect, We prefer to turn
1246 [Title]| actors, musicians, workers, technicians and so many others, whose
1247 1 | minutest parts according to a teleology not yet fully grasped. Man
1248 2 | tumultuous world of those men, telling of their failures, their
1249 1 | his Creator; that which tells him it is possible for him
1250 2 | irresistible fury of the ocean tempest, the solitude of polar glaciers,
1251 2 | with evil, and even its temporary victory, serves, in relation
1252 1 | once more with a Father's tenderness Our welcome to you, who
1253 1 | him if one were to cut the tendons and ligaments that join
1254 3 | and true meaning of the term.~b) The State~ Let Us briefly
1255 [Title]| a nature as to create a terminology of their own in modern languages.
1256 2 | Books of the Old and New Testaments, faithful mirrors of real
1257 2 | more so, since experience, tested in this type, has already
1258 2 | depths of the sea. What a testimony to the richness and manifold
1259 1 | in accordance with severe tests, but by the keen rivaliry
1260 1 | a fatherly manner, would thank them in the name of so many
1261 1 | burst of admiration and thanks, as We personally, in a
1262 [Title]| INTERNATIONAL UNION OF CINEMA THEATRE MANAGERS AND OF THE INTERNATIONAL
1263 3 | the choice of religious themes. Now We add only one suggestion:
1264 2 | functional behaviour and the therapeutic and surgical processes for
1265 | thereby
1266 II | With this as a premise, We think the ideal film must be considered
1267 2 | grappled with this hard and thorny theme, and will continue
1268 1 | Cinema. ~But to understand thoroughly the power of films, and
1269 1 | addition, by all upright men thoughtful for the common good, who
1270 1 | taken together, was twelve thousand million, among whom 2,500
1271 2 | abundant harvest in its three-fold realm, and can traverse,
1272 2 | check the film maker on the threshold of the ideal, as, for example,
1273 1 | and jaded spirit to the thresholds of the world of illusion,
1274 3 | listened to with a smile tinged with scepticism and irony.~
1275 1 | Cinema, God's blessing, in token of which may Our paternal
1276 2 | by deceitful veils, but told as they really happened;
1277 1 | proportionate to its effects. In a tomorrow of spiritual and civic decadence,
1278 3 | become an ever more fit tool for the common good. What
1279 1 | technical capacities of his tools; rather in using them he
1280 1 | can transform all at the touch of his wand.~The ideal film,
1281 3 | admmistration, of justice, are touched on and are aptly portrayed,
1282 3 | to the ideal in whatever touches the Church of Christ, it
1283 1 | understanding. Recall the touching phrase of Our Lord: "I have
1284 | toward
1285 2 | overcome by the majesty of towering mountains, at other times
1286 2 | chief is how to avoid all trace of artificiality and affectation,
1287 2 | agricultural systems, the traffic routes by land, sea and
1288 2 | choice, the rejection, the tragic end of King Saul; or the
1289 1 | from the shaky retakes of a train arriving, to pass on to
1290 3 | artistic portrayal, since it transcends the very possibilities of
1291 1 | his eyes, he is forced to transfer somehow to the person of
1292 1 | which perform the prodigy of transfering the spectator into an imaginary
1293 2 | action or occurrence can be transferred to the screen, because either
1294 1 | with a magician who can transform all at the touch of his
1295 3 | intrepid.~An action film, which translates all that by lively and interesting
1296 1 | Spurred on by desire to transport the spectator into the unreal
1297 2 | three-fold realm, and can traverse, using the technical means
1298 3 | few to belittle the vast treasury of good the family can dispense:
1299 1 | have just described, but treats it respectfully. Even that
1300 [Title]| when one thinks of the tremendous dynamic activity to which
1301 3 | to men an esteem for and trust in the family.~The motion
1302 3 | Holy Mother, in whom he trusts, to whom he clings, in whom
1303 2 | visible representation to some truths, goodness or beauty. The
1304 1 | directors are well aware of and try to make use of, has been
1305 2 | intimate and frequently tumultuous world of those men, telling
1306 1 | and instead left it to be turned into a vehicle of evil. ~
1307 2 | clear-sighted, his mind, turning inwards, is led to say "
1308 1 | in the aged person, who turns back to view the past with
1309 1 | world taken together, was twelve thousand million, among
1310 1 | subtle means, draws its typical fascination from the urge,
1311 1 | entirely superficial, and is unable to add depth to his thoughts
1312 2 | these conflicts. Pride, unbounded ambition, lust for power,
1313 2 | observing, carried out in uncomfortable conditions in forests and
1314 1 | the mercy of powerful and uncontrolled instincts, depending on
1315 1 | contentment of their secret and undefined desires, of their inner
1316 1 | special to the Cinema. ~But to understand thoroughly the power of
1317 1 | spectator that it knows, understands and values properly all
1318 2 | human life would not be understood, at least in its great and
1319 1 | decadence, for which the undisciplined liberty of the film would
1320 2 | injustice, depravity -- such, unhappily, are the marks of the characters
1321 [Title]| REPRESENTATIVES OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF CINEMA THEATRE MANAGERS
1322 3 | nature, and hence by God, to unite in society, to collaborate
1323 1 | false and unreasonable (the unjust and the amoral do not come
1324 2 | which carry one into worlds unknown and sometimes unsuspected,
1325 | unlike
1326 1 | transport the spectator into the unreal world, the film has asked
1327 1 | desires, even false and unreasonable (the unjust and the amoral
1328 1 | the spirit of our time, unreasonably intolerant of the intervention
1329 1 | this means refusal to serve unscrupulous buyers. It does not make
1330 1 | lapse into vulgarity or unseemly sensationalism.~It is not
1331 3 | time maintain and prove an unshakeable fidelity, sincere conjugal
1332 1 | artistic fictions and the unsubstantial shadows of the screen; yet
1333 2 | over-stepping the limits with unsuitable demands, and so that the
1334 2 | worlds unknown and sometimes unsuspected, which no other means can
1335 2 | reader is struck by the unusual artistic and liveliness
1336 [Title]| around itself a field of unusually wide and deep influence
1337 1 | rejection of whatever is unworthy or evil be from the start,
1338 1 | bear him from mountain uplands through wooded hills down
1339 1 | most noble, but so apt to uplift or degrade men, and so quick
1340 1 | can be made attractive and uplifting at the same time, and even
1341 1 | that which strengthens and uplifts man in the consciousness
1342 2 | enveloped in an aura of uprightness and purity, produced by
1343 1 | typical fascination from the urge, communicated to the spectator,
1344 3 | scepticism and irony.~A useful study would be to examine
1345 3 | to it, his activity can usefully enter to block divisive
1346 2 | are relatively rare; more usually, perhaps out of regard for
1347 [Title]| production of films or for their utilisation, finds few counterparts
1348 1 | cinema are driven there by a vague hope of finding the contentment
1349 3 | can an ideal film offer of value to the family, the State,
1350 3 | correctly what has been falsely valued. That can be done when state
1351 1 | it knows, understands and values properly all these things;
1352 3 | vicissitudes of its concrete variable forms. To this essence,
1353 1 | picture, because of its more varied and subtle means, draws
1354 1 | plains baked by the sun.~Thus vary the conditions of man's
1355 2 | perhaps out of regard for the varying background of the public,
1356 2 | not masked by deceitful veils, but told as they really
1357 1 | moves amidst virtue and vice, amidst conflicts, difficulties
1358 3 | it remains, despite the vicissitudes of its concrete variable
1359 1 | and reaction produced by viewing the picture, applying the
1360 2 | limpid quality of water, the violent rush of waterfalls, the
1361 2 | glaciers, the vast stretch of virgin forests, the melancholy
1362 2 | impossibility of giving a visible representation to some truths,
1363 2 | in such a way that its vision may help deepen knowledge
1364 1 | competition. ~From the simple visual narration of an ordinary
1365 1 | consciousness images that are more vivid and dearer to him. Often
1366 2 | means can represent more vividly than does the cinema.~Sometimes
1367 1 | fundamentally, your ability and your vocation summon you. God grant that
1368 1 | of course, any lapse into vulgarity or unseemly sensationalism.~
1369 1 | all at the touch of his wand.~The ideal film, therefore,
1370 3 | community to exercise a lawful watch over their moral quality.~
1371 1 | profession, but also the Church's watchful care over a means as important
1372 2 | flowers, the limpid quality of water, the violent rush of waterfalls,
1373 2 | water, the violent rush of waterfalls, the distinctive beauty
1374 2 | the subject matter, they weaken it and limit themselves
1375 1 | monotony of his life or weakened by his struggles, looks
1376 1 | with the legal and moral weapons at their disposal; yet such
1377 1 | That also attracts man, wearied by reality, and plunges
1378 1 | his depressing state of weariness and banish his boredom.~
1379 1 | deride your conscientious and well-weighed judgement in matters concerning
1380 | whenever
1381 | whereas
1382 | whereby
1383 | wherever
1384 | why
1385 2 | urges the condemnation of wickedness; in such wise the crude
1386 3 | noblest sense of the word, wife and mother of stainless
1387 1 | moral question should be withdrawn, particularly if it reacts
1388 3 | of a father; again, of a woman, in the worthiest and noblest
1389 3 | immense crowds of men and women, of youths and of children,
1390 2 | not without emotions of wonder that one is present at films
1391 1 | mountain uplands through wooded hills down to broad plains
1392 2 | If then one passes to the works of man, subjects suitable
1393 2 | films which carry one into worlds unknown and sometimes unsuspected,
1394 1 | established among them in worldwide competition. ~From the simple
1395 2 | of men who believe in and worship Him, a world in which people
1396 3 | again, of a woman, in the worthiest and noblest sense of the
1397 1 | producer or the director of the writer, he would not fail, perhaps,
1398 3 | Apostolic Blessing. ~~ PIUS PP. XII ~ ~
1399 1 | reported that, during the year 1954, the number of cinema-goers
1400 2 | s Creator.~The film can yield an abundant harvest in its
1401 3 | crowds of men and women, of youths and of children, to whom
1402 1 | Private initiative and zeal can wane, and do in fact