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1 13 | 13. We thank you, Venerable
2 19 | 19. The Church, whose work
3 3 | 3. When, in 1933, We consented, Venerable
4 43 | Passion Sunday, March 14, 1937. ~PIUS XI ~
5 2 | 2. And what the representatives
6 20 | 20. Every true and lasting
7 25 | 25. "Original sin" is the hereditary
8 26 | 26. The cross of Christ, though
9 28 | 28. "Grace," in a wide sense,
10 29 | 29. It is on faith in God,
11 31 | 31. The believer has an absolute
12 33 | 33. Thousands of voices ring
13 34 | 34. No one would think of preventing
14 35 | 35. We address a special word
15 36 | 36. This charity, intelligent
16 37 | 37. Our paternal gratitude
17 38 | 38. We visualize the immense
18 39 | 39. We address Our special
19 40 | 40. Venerable Brethren, We
20 42 | 42. Like other periods of the
21 43 | 43. He who searches the hearts
22 5 | 5. We have never ceased, Venerable
23 6 | 6. Different, however, Venerable
24 7 | 7. Take care, Venerable Brethren,
25 9 | refuse to yield to this aberration. Our God is the Personal
26 37 | majority, who, in voluntary abnegation and poverty, have tried
27 5 | arrangement that may be acceptable to the episcopate. We shall
28 33 | but a determined heart, accepts his fate, finding his one
29 41 | wished neither to be an accomplice to equivocation by an untimely
30 4 | and they alone with their accomplices, silent or vociferous, are
31 34 | xii. 21) as its highest achievement will be the gaining of the
32 5 | the same time, anyone must acknowledge, not without surprise and
33 30 | people. But ancient paganism acknowledged that the axiom, to be entirely
34 2 | account, We could, in grateful acknowledgment to God, exclaim with the
35 37 | fidelity, their virtue, their active charity, their devotion,
36 34 | now devoted to sporting activities, that the harmonious development
37 10 | permeates all branches of activity in which moral values claim
38 | actually
39 25 | but impersonal fault of Adam's descendants, who have
40 41 | those who are trying to adapt their mentality to their
41 37 | many who, as a result of administrative measures hostile to Religious
42 13 | gratitude, warmer still and admiring, goes out to those who,
43 5 | a sense of justice, must admit that, in the course of these
44 17 | retouches by human hand; it admits no substitutes or arbitrary
45 15 | salvation, as it warms, admonishes, strikes, raises and beautifies
46 28 | Himself, called by the Gospel "adoption of the children of God." "
47 20 | spirit of God, spontaneously adopts both outwardly and inwardly,
48 21 | Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and Him only shalt thou
49 18 | development of every quality, advantage, task and vocation which
50 21 | the solace of my life and advocate at my death, may my tongue
51 6 | purpose of this letter. As you affectionately visited Us in Our illness,
52 33 | Church, as a result of your affiliation with religious associations
53 9 | meaningless label, to be affixed to any creation, more or
54 1 | increasing vexations which afflict those who have remained
55 5 | children's Catholic education, afford evidence, in a matter so
56 27 | Christ, which throughout the ages and to the present day numbers
57 34 | overcome by evil, but to aim at the triumph of good over
58 4 | which from the outset only aimed at a war of extermination.
59 39 | sake of counterfeit light alien to the Cross. Then the violation
60 12 | rising like incense to the All-Highest and staying His vengeance. ~
61 18 | the Creator and Savior has allotted to individuals as well as
62 | along
63 39 | deplore the devastation of its altars, the destruction of its
64 17 | substitutes or arbitrary alternatives such as certain leaders
65 | although
66 28 | a so-called German type amounts to repudiating openly a
67 33 | His Church, "let him be anathema" (Gal. i. 9). If the State
68 38 | sacred inheritance of their ancestors. To all of them We send
69 29 | with the times, instead of anchoring it in the holy will of the
70 30 | good of the people. But ancient paganism acknowledged that
71 21 | shall be denied before the angels of God" (Luke xii. 9). ~
72 41 | day will come when their anguish will fall on the children
73 17 | Since Christ, the Lord's Anointed, finished the task of Redemption,
74 34 | voluntary and systematic antagonism raised between national
75 5 | in the course of these anxious and trying years following
76 19 | castaway (1 Cor. ix. 27), could anybody responsible for the extension
77 21 | one the Judas bargain of apostasy he can only, at the cost
78 19 | profession and of the lay apostolate, to square their faith and
79 19 | be interested, then his appeal to an offended sense of
80 23 | evidence of things that appear not" (Heb. ii. 1). The joyful
81 39 | maintained for the sake of appearances, controlled by unauthorized
82 16 | true Christ, such as He appeared in the flesh, the Christ
83 12 | ordained in the things that appertain to God (Heb. v, 1) must
84 17 | words of Scripture would be applicable: "He that dwelleth in heaven
85 19 | If later he forgets to apply the standard of severity,
86 18 | criticism and transformation by architects whom the Father of Heaven
87 10 | Creators' right there naturally arises the fullness of His right
88 43 | name of the Almighty whose arm has not shortened. Trusting
89 42 | knee before Christ, and arming themselves against the enemies
90 5 | to treaties, and to any arrangement that may be acceptable to
91 42 | present has ushered in a new ascension of interior purification,
92 39 | eternal Judge, when he will ask: "Where are those I confided
93 35 | disinterested counselors and assistants of all. The trials and sufferings
94 5 | had left in his soul an atom of love for truth, and in
95 20 | outwardly and inwardly, the true attitude toward the Church, this
96 37 | their spirit of prayer, the austerity of their lives and their
97 19 | the overwhelming sum of authentic virtues, of spirit of sacrifice,
98 39 | represent to the responsible authorities the iniquity of the pressure
99 18 | the Father of Heaven never authorized to interfere. ~
100 33 | social life. We are well aware that there is many a humble
101 41 | nostalgia will bring them back to "God who was the joy
102 15 | in the twilight of this background that one perceives the striking
103 19 | a catastrophe that would baffle the imagination. ~
104 41 | word of this letter in the balance of truth and love. We wished
105 30 | from man's nature, which balances personal rights and social
106 16 | 16. Whoever wishes to see banished from church and school the
107 29 | or refuse to see that the banishment of confessional Christianity,
108 34 | That the preservation of baptismal innocence is an act of heroism
109 4 | responsibilities and laid bare intrigues, which from the
110 21 | oppressor offers one the Judas bargain of apostasy he can only,
111 29 | that man's morality is based. All efforts to remove from
112 30 | of right and utility, the basic fact that man as a person
113 3 | Government proposed on the basis of a scheme of several years'
114 20 | they grew to the size of beacons and reformers. On the other
115 19 | incisive words, cannot see the beam in their own. But however
116 15 | story of the chosen people, bearers of the Revelation and the
117 15 | admonishes, strikes, raises and beautifies its elect. Nothing but ignorance
118 | because
119 43 | cease not to pray and to beg" (Col. i. 9) for you, children
120 21 | answer with Our Lord: "Begone, Satan! For it is written:
121 34 | history, the saints she begot, the blessing that came
122 40 | hearts of those who have begun to yield to the threats
123 28 | of the children of God." "Behold what manner of charity the
124 3 | prompted by the desire, as it behooved Us, to secure for Germany
125 14 | therefore, can say: "I believe in God, and that is enough
126 33 | mother, from the lips of a believing father, or through teaching
127 19 | sacred duty of all those who belong to the Church, chiefly the
128 25 | derision of Christ's enemies, belongs to the inalienable treasury
129 35 | and apostolic patience. Beloved sons, who participate with
130 42 | people return to religion, bend the knee before Christ,
131 43 | paternal love, Our Apostolic Benediction. ~Given at the Vatican on
132 3 | freedom of the Church's beneficent mission and the salvation
133 30 | society, established for the benefit of human nature. Society,
134 30 | possibilities, and for the social benefits, which by a give and take
135 6 | your religious freedom is beset on all sides, when the lack
136 | besides
137 34 | sacred character, against the best of German traditions. But
138 21 | worldly promises or threats, I betray the vows of my baptism."
139 9 | 9. Beware, Venerable Brethren, of
140 18 | Church's maternal heart is big enough to see in the God-appointed
141 5 | has been inspired by the binding law of treaties. At the
142 22 | faith in the primacy of the Bishop of Rome. The same moment
143 35 | painful marks. They have left bitterness and anxiety which are slow
144 4 | of the rainbow of peace, blacken the German skies. ~
145 4 | will be able to lay the blame on the Church and on her
146 12 | profaned; to put a stop to the blasphemies, which, in words and pictures,
147 18 | progress, which she can only bless and encourage, whenever
148 18 | Christ Himself, God eternally blessed, raised this pillar of the
149 15 | ignorance and pride could blind one to the treasures hoarded
150 19 | gives evidence of deplorable blindness and injustice. If later
151 26 | become to many a stumbling block and foolishness (1 Cor.
152 22 | authority is invariably a bond of unity, a source of strength,
153 1 | that once received from St. Boniface the bright message and the
154 34 | physical education is a boon for youth. But so much time
155 34 | neglected. With an indifference bordering on contempt the day of the
156 | both
157 22 | which is condemned every branch that is severed from the
158 10 | obedience permeates all branches of activity in which moral
159 38 | religious associations which, bravely and at the cost of untold
160 17 | task of Redemption, and by breaking up the reign of sin deserved
161 20 | Founder of the Church, who breathed her into existence at Pentecost,
162 20 | remedy. No doubt "the Spirit breatheth where he will" (John iii.
163 41 | lost, when nostalgia will bring them back to "God who was
164 14 | for the Savior's words brook no evasion: "Whosoever denieth
165 19 | seeing the mote in their brother's eye, according to the
166 11 | they are "as a drop of a bucket" (Isaiah xI, 15). ~
167 22 | confession was the word that built the Church, the only Church
168 25 | your country are today the butt of the cheap derision of
169 20 | stand to attention to any call from God, yet confident
170 34 | begot, the blessing that came upon Western civilization
171 39 | responsibility from the opposite camp, and free his conscience
172 36 | in jail and concentration camps, the Father of the Christian
173 23 | You will need to watch carefully, Venerable Brethren, that
174 30 | would in international law carry a perpetual state of war
175 22 | that authority, as in the case of the Church, and the Church
176 19 | himself should become a castaway (1 Cor. ix. 27), could anybody
177 19 | unless it be condemned to a catastrophe that would baffle the imagination. ~
178 38 | intact their devotion to the cause of God, their tender love
179 5 | 5. We have never ceased, Venerable Brethren, to
180 29 | subjective opinion, which changes with the times, instead
181 18 | development of individual characteristics and gifts, more than a mere
182 2 | indifferent in Our Apostolic charge and the determination to
183 19 | nations, the vase of election, chastised his body and brought it
184 25 | are today the butt of the cheap derision of Christ's enemies,
185 19 | who belong to the Church, chiefly the members of the priestly
186 39 | profane the temple of the child's soul consecrated by baptism,
187 20 | designs" (Matt. iii. 9). He chooses the instruments of His will
188 21 | voices are swelling into a chorus urging people to leave the
189 15 | record the story of the chosen people, bearers of the Revelation
190 38 | tender love for the Father of Christendom, their obedience to their
191 22 | history of other national churches with their paralysis, their
192 30 | same time morally good" (Cicero, De Off. ii. 30). Emancipated
193 3 | have had to face, given the circumstances, had the negotiations fallen
194 21 | the threat of economic and civic disabilities, bear on the
195 34 | blessing that came upon Western civilization from the union between that
196 19 | and their conduct with the claims of the law of God and of
197 19 | which is sick to death and clamors for directions, unless it
198 21 | on the loyalty of certain classes of Catholic functionaries,
199 29 | Christianity, i.e., the clear and precise notion of Christianity,
200 21 | my death, may my tongue cleave to my palate if, yielding
201 33 | and sacred. Many of you, clinging to your Faith and to your
202 42 | premature, and that they may close the grave they had dug.
203 29 | spoliation and degradation. No coercive power of the State, no purely
204 23 | mere equivocation. False coins of this sort do not deserve
205 43 | not to pray and to beg" (Col. i. 9) for you, children
206 24 | only means by the term, the collective survival here on earth of
207 19 | obscured by human, too human, combination, persistently growing and
208 29 | eternal and the divine, that comforting and consoling faith in a
209 36 | his words of gratitude and commendation. ~
210 28 | raises man to that intimate communion of life with Himself, called
211 27 | assistance of grace are perfectly compatible with self-confidence and
212 22 | Church alone is qualified and competent. The live history of other
213 36 | those imprisoned in jail and concentration camps, the Father of the
214 7 | so-called pre-Christian Germanic conception of substituting a dark and
215 3 | unanimous satisfaction, We concluded the negotiations by a solemn
216 5 | years following upon the conclusion of the concordat, every
217 42 | purification, on the sole condition that the faithful show themselves
218 22 | Apostles and disciples, confesses his faith in Christ, Son
219 14 | not the Father. He that confesseth the Son hath the Father
220 27 | present day numbers more confessors and voluntary martyrs than
221 23 | 1). The joyful and proud confidence in the future of one's people,
222 6 | thou being once converted, confirm thy brethren" (Luke xxii.
223 35 | address a special word of congratulation, encouragement and exhortation
224 22 | 18). Thus was sealed the connection between the faith in Christ,
225 25 | moral effort, repress and conquer. The passion and death of
226 29 | refusal of their duty. The conscientious observation of the ten commandments
227 18 | encourage, whenever she can conscientiously do so. But she also knows
228 31 | Parents who are earnest and conscious of their educative duties,
229 39 | temple of the child's soul consecrated by baptism, and extinguish
230 3 | decided not to withhold Our consent for We wished to spare the
231 3 | 3. When, in 1933, We consented, Venerable Brethren, to
232 12 | errors of this sort, and consequent practices more pernicious
233 23 | Christian currency. "Faith" consists in holding as true what
234 35 | doctors of the doubting, the consolers of the afflicted, the disinterested
235 15 | exclusively the word of God, and constitute a substantial part of his
236 21 | infidelity to Christ the King constitutes a signal and meritorious
237 20 | destruction instead of construction, and more than once set
238 9 | Lord, King and ultimate Consummator of the history of the world,
239 34 | indifference bordering on contempt the day of the Lord is divested
240 5 | the episcopate. We shall continue without failing, to stand
241 5 | reprobation, how the other contracting party emasculated the terms
242 30 | Human laws in flagrant contradiction with the natural law are
243 30 | indefensible, can never contribute to the good of the people.
244 37 | and education, are greatly contributing to private and public welfare.
245 39 | the sake of appearances, controlled by unauthorized men, within
246 6 | not: and thou being once converted, confirm thy brethren" (
247 39 | his conscience from guilty cooperation with such corruption. The
248 30 | proposition which may be given a correct significance, it means that
249 35 | afflicted, the disinterested counselors and assistants of all. The
250 39 | in Christ for the sake of counterfeit light alien to the Cross.
251 22 | the living Church. Whoever counters these erroneous developments
252 18 | of all times and of all countries. The Church founded by the
253 5 | must admit that, in the course of these anxious and trying
254 27 | pride of reformers only covers itself with ridicule when
255 27 | as though it were but a cowardly pose of self-degradation. ~
256 21 | position is intended to create the impression that this
257 8 | of the world planned and created by God; he is far from the
258 9 | label, to be affixed to any creation, more or less arbitrary,
259 10 | From the fullness of the Creators' right there naturally arises
260 34 | of heroism which deserves credit? You are often told about
261 18 | eternal foundations, to criticism and transformation by architects
262 19 | present generation, and to the critics of the Church that "the
263 16 | from a people that was to crucify Him; and he understands
264 35 | anxiety which are slow to cure, except by charity. This
265 23 | do not deserve Christian currency. "Faith" consists in holding
266 25 | world from the hereditary curse of sin and death. Faith
267 43 | enlightened Saul on the road of Damascus. With this prayer in Our
268 18 | gifts, more than a mere danger of divergency. She rejoices
269 33 | you threatened with new dangers and new molestations, We
270 17 | iii 11). Should any man dare, in sacrilegious disregard
271 7 | conception of substituting a dark and impersonal destiny for
272 38 | faithful children, Our sons and daughters, for whom the sufferings
273 15 | development of revelation, the dawn of the bright day of the
274 30 | time morally good" (Cicero, De Off. ii. 30). Emancipated
275 39 | non-confessional schools. We know, dear Catholic parents, that your
276 21 | to those who must pay so dearly for their loyalty to Christ
277 19 | of Christianity has not decayed, but is ready to give the
278 3 | grave misgivings, We then decided not to withhold Our consent
279 29 | shift of the supreme and decisive impulses generated by faith
280 31 | in its origin, cannot but declare that the recent enrollment
281 13 | of their duty, have been deemed worthy of sacrifice and
282 1 | 1. It is with deep anxiety and growing surprise
283 2 | pastoral heart knows no deeper pain, no disappointment
284 22 | this is verified in the deepest and sublimest sense, when
285 4 | distrust, unrest, hatred, defamation, of a determined hostility
286 5 | rulers of your people as the defender of violated rights, and
287 36 | proclaiming, vindicating and defending the truth and its implications.
288 34 | often told about the human deficiencies which mar the history of
289 35 | in difficult times and delicate situations, have, under
290 23 | the one for the other, and demand on the strength of this,
291 14 | brook no evasion: "Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not
292 29 | conscience and ennobles every department and organization of life,
293 19 | sanctity, he gives evidence of deplorable blindness and injustice.
294 39 | The Church cannot wait to deplore the devastation of its altars,
295 8 | particular form of State, or the depositories of power, or any other fundamental
296 29 | destruction. The resulting dereliction of the eternal principles
297 25 | today the butt of the cheap derision of Christ's enemies, belongs
298 30 | alone can provide, also derive from the Creator for the
299 25 | impersonal fault of Adam's descendants, who have sinned in him (
300 12 | multiplying like the sands of the desert; to encounter the obstinacy
301 34 | God and His Church, or a deserter and traitor to His heavenly
302 17 | breaking up the reign of sin deserved for us the grace of being
303 34 | an act of heroism which deserves credit? You are often told
304 28 | creature; but in its Christian designation, it means all the supernatural
305 12 | provocations of those who deny, despise and hate God, by the never-failing
306 3 | development and prosperity. Hence, despite many and grave misgivings,
307 2 | Apostolic charge and the determination to place before the Christian
308 37 | Church punishes, in no way detracts from the merit of the immense
309 39 | cannot wait to deplore the devastation of its altars, the destruction
310 19 | persistently growing and developing like the cockle among the
311 22 | counters these erroneous developments with an uncompromising No
312 18 | Spouse of Christ one of the diadems with which God Himself crowned
313 31 | and live according to its dictates. Laws which impede this
314 | did
315 15 | expected in historical and didactic books, they reflect in many
316 26 | We live in its shadow and die in its embrace. It will
317 17 | disregard of the essential differences between God and His creature,
318 21 | violates every human right and dignity. Our wholehearted paternal
319 43 | Catholic Action, to all your diocesans, and specially to the sick
320 41 | whose paternal hand has directed them on the road that leads
321 35 | situations, have, under the direction of their Bishops, to guide
322 19 | to death and clamors for directions, unless it be condemned
323 21 | Christ and the Church; but directly the highest interests are
324 21 | threat of economic and civic disabilities, bear on the loyalty of
325 2 | knows no deeper pain, no disappointment more bitter, than to learn
326 28 | God" (1 John iii. 1). To discard this gratuitous and free
327 22 | of all the Apostles and disciples, confesses his faith in
328 19 | besides these reprehensible discrepancies be between faith and life,
329 39 | more the enemies attempt to disguise their designs, the more
330 35 | consolers of the afflicted, the disinterested counselors and assistants
331 20 | existence at Pentecost, cannot disown the foundations as He laid
332 19 | in no organization can dispense himself from the duty of
333 17 | man dare, in sacrilegious disregard of the essential differences
334 34 | development of body and mind is disregarded, that duties to one's family,
335 39 | their designs, the more a distrustful vigilance will be needed,
336 5 | peace, and on which side its disturbers. Whoever had left in his
337 18 | more than a mere danger of divergency. She rejoices at the spiritual
338 15 | who at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times
339 34 | contempt the day of the Lord is divested of its sacred character,
340 7 | and worthy concept of the Divinity. Whoever identifies, by
341 8 | their standard value and divinizes them to an idolatrous level,
342 22 | strength, a guarantee against division and ruin, a pledge for the
343 35 | support of those who fail, the doctors of the doubting, the consolers
344 16 | Biblical history and the wise doctrines of the Old Testament, blasphemes
345 18 | all nations. Beneath her dome, as beneath the vault of
346 22 | with their paralysis, their domestication and subjection to worldly
347 29 | commandments, is to open wide every door to the forces of destruction.
348 35 | fail, the doctors of the doubting, the consolers of the afflicted,
349 | down
350 34 | children of God. Do not drag the nobility of that freedom
351 20 | sanctity of men who were driven by the love of God and of
352 11 | immensity they are "as a drop of a bucket" (Isaiah xI,
353 42 | close the grave they had dug. The day will come when
354 17 | be applicable: "He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at
355 31 | natural law.~Parents who are earnest and conscious of their educative
356 30 | blinded by sin or passion, can easily read. It is in the light
357 42 | the holy time of Lent and Easter, which preaches interior
358 40 | acts of Our Faithful, the echo responding to the solicitude
359 21 | intimidation, the threat of economic and civic disabilities,
360 2 | feelings. To consoling and edifying information on the stand
361 29 | objective morality, which educates conscience and ennobles
362 39 | within the frame of an educational system which systematically
363 31 | earnest and conscious of their educative duties, have a primary right
364 39 | Their rights and duties as educators, conferred on them by God,
365 29 | moral formation of such efficacy lie fallow, or to exclude
366 25 | penance, resistance and moral effort, repress and conquer. The
367 29 | hard sacrifice of his own ego to the common good, loses
368 15 | raises and beautifies its elect. Nothing but ignorance and
369 28 | this gratuitous and free elevation in the name of a so-called
370 30 | Cicero, De Off. ii. 30). Emancipated from this oral rule, the
371 5 | other contracting party emasculated the terms of the treaty,
372 26 | sign of his redemption, the emblem of moral strength and greatness.
373 26 | its shadow and die in its embrace. It will stand on our grave
374 40 | Catholics of the German Empire, will find in the hearts
375 23 | fundamental concepts be not emptied of their content and distorted
376 12 | sands of the desert; to encounter the obstinacy and provocations
377 18 | which she can only bless and encourage, whenever she can conscientiously
378 35 | word of congratulation, encouragement and exhortation to the priests
379 19 | spirit and in action. In Our Encyclical on the priesthood We have
380 5 | practices, which it officially endorsed, would wreck every faith
381 4 | peace, other men - the "enemy" of Holy Scripture - oversowed
382 19 | mercilessly purifying himself, and energetically renewing himself in spirit
383 12 | whatever is in their power to enforce respect for, and obedience
384 43 | Father of light and mercy may enlighten them as He enlightened Saul
385 43 | may enlighten them as He enlightened Saul on the road of Damascus.
386 29 | educates conscience and ennobles every department and organization
387 31 | declare that the recent enrollment into schools organized without
388 32 | the Gospel: "If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments" (
389 40 | yield to the threats and enticements of the enemies of Christ
390 30 | acknowledged that the axiom, to be entirely true, must be reversed and
391 10 | uncrowned, rich and poor are equally subject to His word. From
392 20 | bestowed on Pentecost day to an erratic world. ~
393 22 | Whoever counters these erroneous developments with an uncompromising
394 12 | must watch that pernicious errors of this sort, and consequent
395 9 | tri-personal in the unity of divine essence, the Creator of all existence.
396 30 | the purpose of society, established for the benefit of human
397 34 | preventing young Germans establishing a true ethnical community
398 18 | for Christ Himself, God eternally blessed, raised this pillar
399 14 | Savior's words brook no evasion: "Whosoever denieth the
400 5 | before the evidence of events should have torn the mask
401 5 | distorted their meaning, and eventually considered its more or less
402 10 | pervades all integration of the ever-changing laws of man into the immutable
403 25 | propensity to evil, which everybody must, with the assistance
404 | everything
405 22 | Church of Christ and the evident betrayal of that universal
406 20 | and more than once set up evils worse than those it was
407 29 | character, a school that is exacting, but not to excess. A merciful
408 8 | 8. Whoever exalts race, or the people, or
409 19 | from the duty of loyally examining his conscience, of mercilessly
410 35 | straight road, by word and example, by their daily devotion
411 | except
412 10 | knows neither privilege nor exception. Rulers and subjects, crowned
413 29 | is exacting, but not to excess. A merciful God, who as
414 41 | untimely silence, nor by excessive severity to harden the hearts
415 2 | grateful acknowledgment to God, exclaim with the Apostle of love: "
416 29 | efficacy lie fallow, or to exclude them positively from public
417 15 | of the Old Testament are exclusively the word of God, and constitute
418 35 | mysteries, never tire of exercising, after the Sovereign and
419 35 | congratulation, encouragement and exhortation to the priests of Germany,
420 34 | German traditions. But We expect the Catholic youth, in the
421 15 | redemption. As should be expected in historical and didactic
422 34 | exercise the body at the expense of the immortal soul, not
423 39 | in the light of bitter experience. Religious lessons maintained
424 4 | Church and on her Head. The experiences of these last years have
425 31 | mission it is to preserve and explain the natural law, as it is
426 34 | the Church: why ignore the exploits which fill her history,
427 35 | especially those who are more exposed, who are weak and stumbling.
428 19 | anybody responsible for the extension of the Kingdom of God claim
429 4 | outset only aimed at a war of extermination. In the furrows, where We
430 39 | consecrated by baptism, and extinguish the eternal light of the
431 5 | life of the Church, of the extreme gravity of the situation
432 19 | mote in their brother's eye, according to the Savior'
433 5 | We shall continue without failing, to stand before the rulers
434 36 | error in any of its forms. Failure on this score would be not
435 41 | when their anguish will fall on the children they have
436 29 | formation of such efficacy lie fallow, or to exclude them positively
437 23 | history, is mere equivocation. False coins of this sort do not
438 34 | disregarded, that duties to one's family, and the observation of
439 33 | determined heart, accepts his fate, finding his one consolation
440 15 | spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets last of
441 34 | Catholic youth, in the more favorable organizations of the State,
442 4 | hostility overt or veiled, fed from many sources and wielding
443 27 | from no one in heroism of feeling and action. The odious pride
444 | few
445 17 | the Gospel of Christ is final and permanent. It knows
446 15 | revealing the saving plan which finally triumphs over every fault
447 40 | the German Empire, will find in the hearts and in the
448 33 | heart, accepts his fate, finding his one consolation in the
449 17 | Christ, the Lord's Anointed, finished the task of Redemption,
450 6 | is being tested in the fire of tribulation and persecution,
451 4 | of these last years have fixed responsibilities and laid
452 30 | conscience. Human laws in flagrant contradiction with the natural
453 20 | springing from personal purity, flashes out of passion, has produced
454 16 | such as He appeared in the flesh, the Christ who took His
455 12 | gain a footing among their flock. It is part of their sacred
456 35 | their Bishops, to guide the flocks of Christ along the straight
457 5 | consequences which would inevitably follow the protection and even
458 23 | numbered among the faithful followers of Christ, is a senseless
459 7 | believer in God. Whoever follows that so-called pre-Christian
460 4 | interest of your people, We had fondly hoped, no one in the world
461 29 | to moral degradation. The fool who has said in his heart "
462 26 | many a stumbling block and foolishness (1 Cor. i. 23) remains for
463 29 | and the number of these fools who today are out to sever
464 12 | still, shall not gain a footing among their flock. It is
465 19 | and injustice. If later he forgets to apply the standard of
466 35 | you forget, or at least forgive, many an undeserved insult
467 8 | the State, or a particular form of State, or the depositories
468 36 | refute error in any of its forms. Failure on this score would
469 41 | even forget whatever they forsook, the day will come when
470 4 | intention, has not brought forth the fruit, which in the
471 20 | not those of men. But the Founder of the Church, who breathed
472 39 | unauthorized men, within the frame of an educational system
473 39 | Therefore, we shall never cease frankly to represent to the responsible
474 2 | John iii. 4). But the frankness indifferent in Our Apostolic
475 19 | of spirit of sacrifice, fraternal love, heroic efforts of
476 35 | undeserved insult now more frequent than ever. ~
477 19 | God and of men in all its freshness, such a Christianity can
478 11 | attempt to lock within the frontiers of a single people, within
479 18 | with maternal joy and pride fruits of education and progress,
480 13 | goes out to those who, in fulfillment of their duty, have been
481 21 | certain classes of Catholic functionaries, a pressure which violates
482 4 | of extermination. In the furrows, where We tried to sow the
483 12 | pernicious still, shall not gain a footing among their flock.
484 34 | achievement will be the gaining of the crown in the stadium
485 33 | let him be anathema" (Gal. i. 9). If the State organizes
486 30 | be the lawgiver, can be gauged in its moral content, and
487 30 | others. Higher and more general values, which collectivity
488 29 | supreme and decisive impulses generated by faith in God and Christ.
489 19 | can we show to the present generation, and to the critics of the
490 29 | fruit will poison future generations. ~
491 7 | so-called pre-Christian Germanic conception of substituting
492 34 | think of preventing young Germans establishing a true ethnical
493 22 | the guidance of the Holy Ghost and His irresistible support.
494 19 | words on scandal and the giver of scandals, know, too,
495 31 | this freedom of the parents go against natural law, and
496 16 | made the new alliance the goal of the old alliance, its
497 18 | big enough to see in the God-appointed development of individual
498 17 | His creature, between the God-man and the children of man,
499 6 | time when your faith, like gold, is being tested in the
500 29 | specifications of rules of the Gospels) is for every one an unrivaled
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