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501 3 | concordat, which the Reich Government proposed on the basis of
502 29 | and the moral order the granite foundation of faith and
503 2 | their account, We could, in grateful acknowledgment to God, exclaim
504 28 | iii. 1). To discard this gratuitous and free elevation in the
505 5 | the Church, of the extreme gravity of the situation and the
506 17 | place a mortal, were he the greatest of all times, by the side
507 37 | sick and education, are greatly contributing to private
508 20 | in their vocation, they grew to the size of beacons and
509 19 | Christianity which keeps a grip on itself, refuses every
510 18 | Church, "the pillar and ground of the truth" (1 Tim. iii.
511 22 | a source of strength, a guarantee against division and ruin,
512 28 | natural gifts. Pastors and guardians of the people of God will
513 22 | sealed by the promise and the guidance of the Holy Ghost and His
514 35 | weak and stumbling. Be the guides of the faithful, the support
515 39 | free his conscience from guilty cooperation with such corruption.
516 38 | to remain ever faithful, happen what may, to the sacred
517 19 | organizations in which he happens to be interested, then his
518 41 | by excessive severity to harden the hearts of those who
519 34 | sporting activities, that the harmonious development of body and
520 15 | penetrated by a subdued light, harmonizing with the slow development
521 10 | which moral values claim harmony with the law of God, and
522 | hast
523 12 | those who deny, despise and hate God, by the never-failing
524 19 | he measures the Church he hates, to other organizations
525 4 | on the Church and on her Head. The experiences of these
526 37 | done. We trust that the heads of religious communities
527 6 | whose first predecessor heard these words from the Lord: "
528 2 | hard and unpleasant. After hearing their account, We could,
529 34 | deserter and traitor to His heavenly country. You are often told
530 6 | and of normal defense is heavily weighing on you, you have
531 43 | you, as a pledge of Divine help, as a support in your difficult
532 | here
533 34 | the fact that there are heroisms in moral life? That the
534 30 | sake and that of others. Higher and more general values,
535 15 | As should be expected in historical and didactic books, they
536 15 | blind one to the treasures hoarded in the Old Testament. ~
537 33 | against whatever you should hold venerable and sacred. Many
538 23 | currency. "Faith" consists in holding as true what God has revealed
539 30 | person possesses rights he holds from God, and which any
540 41 | surroundings, have for the paternal home they have left and for the
541 5 | account of Our efforts, every honest mind will see on which side
542 5 | to impeach other people's honesty, before the evidence of
543 5 | pledge of the given word of honor against theories and practices,
544 8 | however necessary and honorable be their function in worldly
545 26 | pledge of our faith and our hope in the eternal light. ~
546 4 | your people, We had fondly hoped, no one in the world who
547 12 | prayers of the Faithful, hourly rising like incense to the
548 | how
549 3 | Germany, as far as it was humanly possible, the trials and
550 33 | aware that there is many a humble soldier of Christ in your
551 33 | even denied, and of being hurt in your professional and
552 29 | the State, no purely human ideal, however noble and lofty
553 28 | things and this confusion of ideas. ~
554 8 | and divinizes them to an idolatrous level, distorts and perverts
555 15 | beautifies its elect. Nothing but ignorance and pride could blind one
556 34 | history of the Church: why ignore the exploits which fill
557 30 | between nations; for it ignores in national life, by confusion
558 6 | affectionately visited Us in Our illness, so also We turn to you,
559 19 | catastrophe that would baffle the imagination. ~
560 21 | baptism." As to those who imagine that they can reconcile
561 11 | all nations before whose immensity they are "as a drop of a
562 31 | against natural law, and are immoral. The Church, whose mission
563 34 | body at the expense of the immortal soul, not to be overcome
564 24 | 24. "Immortality" in a Christian sense means
565 10 | ever-changing laws of man into the immutable laws of God. ~
566 5 | to see its force; not to impeach other people's honesty,
567 31 | its dictates. Laws which impede this profession and practice
568 15 | in many particulars the imperfection, the weakness and sinfulness
569 36 | defending the truth and its implications. The priest's first loving
570 40 | If there is one thing We implore the Lord to grant, it is
571 36 | offend you, does by no means imply a renunciation of the right
572 21 | is intended to create the impression that this infidelity to
573 36 | persecution; to all those imprisoned in jail and concentration
574 33 | Faith and to the Church, impudently aggressive against whatever
575 29 | the supreme and decisive impulses generated by faith in God
576 25 | enemies, belongs to the inalienable treasury of Christian revelation. ~
577 17 | power and worldly strength incarnated in him, can lay any other
578 12 | Faithful, hourly rising like incense to the All-Highest and staying
579 35 | stainless before God and the incessant pursuit of your perfection
580 19 | according to the Savior's incisive words, cannot see the beam
581 1 | trials of the Church and the increasing vexations which afflict
582 30 | means that what is morally indefensible, can never contribute to
583 24 | earth of his people for an indefinite length of time, distorts
584 2 | iii. 4). But the frankness indifferent in Our Apostolic charge
585 35 | charity is the apostle's indispensable weapon, in a world torn
586 18 | with that unity and that indivisibility wrenches from the Spouse
587 18 | founded that Church one and indivisible. Whoever tampers with that
588 5 | responsibility for Christian souls induces Us not to overlook the last
589 34 | You are told about sports. Indulged in with moderation and within
590 5 | consequences which would inevitably follow the protection and
591 21 | Thou, my mother since my infancy, the solace of my life and
592 9 | supernatural, omnipotent, infinitely perfect, one in the Trinity
593 9 | human speculation. Use your influence on the Faithful, that they
594 2 | To consoling and edifying information on the stand the Faithful
595 38 | what may, to the sacred inheritance of their ancestors. To all
596 39 | responsible authorities the iniquity of the pressure brought
597 19 | deplorable blindness and injustice. If later he forgets to
598 15 | man. But side by side with innumerable touches of greatness and
599 19 | again repeat with all the insistency We can command: it is not
600 23 | future of one's people, instinct in every heart, is quite
601 20 | iii. 9). He chooses the instruments of His will according to
602 33 | the thought of suffering insults for the name of Jesus (Acts
603 38 | and their own have left intact their devotion to the cause
604 10 | of God, and pervades all integration of the ever-changing laws
605 36 | 36. This charity, intelligent and sympathetic towards
606 19 | in which he happens to be interested, then his appeal to an offended
607 18 | Heaven never authorized to interfere. ~
608 30 | the principle would in international law carry a perpetual state
609 28 | tokens of God's love; God's intervention which raises man to that
610 28 | which raises man to that intimate communion of life with Himself,
611 21 | Secret and open measures of intimidation, the threat of economic
612 4 | responsibilities and laid bare intrigues, which from the outset only
613 22 | and lawful authority is invariably a bond of unity, a source
614 20 | adopts both outwardly and inwardly, the true attitude toward
615 23 | race and blood, for the irradiations of a people's history, is
616 7 | faith in God, the first and irreplaceable foundation of all religion,
617 22 | of the Holy Ghost and His irresistible support. Should men, who
618 11 | as a drop of a bucket" (Isaiah xI, 15). ~
619 10 | this Sovereign Master, has issued commandments whose value
620 36 | all those imprisoned in jail and concentration camps,
621 38 | to their pastors, their joyous resolution to remain ever
622 21 | oppressor offers one the Judas bargain of apostasy he can
623 39 | against religion, do not justify a vote in favor of non-confessional
624 32 | thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments" (Matt.
625 19 | need. A Christianity which keeps a grip on itself, refuses
626 36 | country. To all those who have kept their promised fidelity
627 42 | return to religion, bend the knee before Christ, and arming
628 33 | one you received on the knees of a pious mother, from
629 14 | faith in Christ. "No one knoweth who the Son is, but the
630 9 | though it were a meaningless label, to be affixed to any creation,
631 6 | beset on all sides, when the lack of religious teaching and
632 20 | 20. Every true and lasting reform has ultimately sprung
633 17 | dwelleth in heaven shall laugh at them" (Psalms ii. 3). ~
634 22 | and the Primacy. True and lawful authority is invariably
635 30 | positive law, whoever be the lawgiver, can be gauged in its moral
636 29 | regulations, sooner or later lead these individuals or societies
637 41 | directed them on the road that leads to the Father of Heaven. ~
638 2 | disappointment more bitter, than to learn that many are straying from
639 | least
640 21 | chorus urging people to leave the Church, and among the
641 19 | salt of the earth," the leaven of Christianity has not
642 35 | passed over its soul without leaving painful marks. They have
643 29 | morality from religion, is legion. They either do not see
644 24 | people for an indefinite length of time, distorts one of
645 42 | charity. May the holy time of Lent and Easter, which preaches
646 19 | brought it into subjection: lest perhaps, when he had preached
647 5 | the systematic hostility leveled at the Church. Even now
648 42 | come when the Te Deum of liberation will succeed to the premature
649 29 | formation of such efficacy lie fallow, or to exclude them
650 19 | The Church, whose work lies among men and operates through
651 16 | of salvation, and makes limited and narrow human thought
652 37 | the austerity of their lives and their perfect discipline,
653 11 | religion; or attempt to lock within the frontiers of
654 29 | ideal, however noble and lofty it be, will ever be able
655 29 | ego to the common good, loses the support of the eternal
656 36 | implications. The priest's first loving gift to his neighbors is
657 7 | the universe, by either lowering God to the dimensions of
658 1 | those who have remained loyal in heart and action in the
659 19 | himself from the duty of loyally examining his conscience,
660 15 | the Biblical history, the luminous splendor of the divine light
661 34 | about heroic greatness, in lying opposition to evangelical
662 18 | Faith in Christ cannot maintain itself pure and unalloyed
663 39 | experience. Religious lessons maintained for the sake of appearances,
664 2 | the stand the Faithful are making for their Faith, they considered
665 28 | children of God." "Behold what manner of charity the Father hath
666 15 | sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to
667 34 | human deficiencies which mar the history of the Church:
668 43 | Vatican on Passion Sunday, March 14, 1937. ~PIUS XI ~
669 35 | without leaving painful marks. They have left bitterness
670 27 | confessors and voluntary martyrs than any other moral collectivity,
671 5 | events should have torn the mask off the systematic hostility
672 10 | This God, this Sovereign Master, has issued commandments
673 5 | education, afford evidence, in a matter so essential to the life
674 5 | treaty, distorted their meaning, and eventually considered
675 9 | God as though it were a meaningless label, to be affixed to
676 39 | and secret vote would have meant the triumph of the Catholic
677 30 | good ultimately takes its measure from man's nature, which
678 30 | which no force, no power can mend. In the light of this principle
679 41 | are trying to adapt their mentality to their new surroundings,
680 19 | examining his conscience, of mercilessly purifying himself, and energetically
681 43 | the Father of light and mercy may enlighten them as He
682 5 | unwarranted weakness, but merely by Our anxiety not to draw
683 37 | no way detracts from the merit of the immense majority,
684 21 | constitutes a signal and meritorious act of loyalty to the modern
685 1 | St. Boniface the bright message and the Gospel of Christ
686 19 | Kingdom of God claim any other method but personal sanctification?
687 1 | heart and action in the midst of a people that once received
688 7 | Reacheth from end to end mightily, and ordereth all things
689 11 | 11. None but superficial minds could stumble into concepts
690 3 | despite many and grave misgivings, We then decided not to
691 33 | loyalty to your country misunderstood, suspected, or even denied,
692 19 | Christianity can be, and will be, a model and a guide to a world which
693 21 | meritorious act of loyalty to the modern State. Secret and open measures
694 2 | and duty bound, has not modified Our feelings. To consoling
695 33 | with new dangers and new molestations, We say to you: If any one
696 17 | children of man, to place a mortal, were he the greatest of
697 19 | those who, for seeing the mote in their brother's eye,
698 5 | this was not inspired by motives of worldly interest, still
699 20 | He laid them. Whoever is moved by the spirit of God, spontaneously
700 34 | nobility of that freedom in the mud of sin and sensuality. He
701 12 | words and pictures, are multiplying like the sands of the desert;
702 38 | We visualize the immense multitudes of Our faithful children,
703 35 | participate with Us in the sacred mysteries, never tire of exercising,
704 17 | draw from the so-called myth of race and blood. Since
705 10 | the Creators' right there naturally arises the fullness of His
706 19 | who make it their task, nay their vile profession, to
707 6 | afflicted children, are nearer to their Father's heart.
708 39 | distrustful vigilance will be needed, in the light of bitter
709 34 | observation of the Lord's Day are neglected. With an indifference bordering
710 36 | first loving gift to his neighbors is to serve truth and refute
711 12 | despise and hate God, by the never-failing reparatory prayers of the
712 39 | violation of temples is nigh, and it will be every one'
713 34 | of God. Do not drag the nobility of that freedom in the mud
714 15 | touches of greatness and nobleness, they also record the story
715 | Nobody
716 39 | justify a vote in favor of non-confessional schools. We know, dear Catholic
717 41 | children they have lost, when nostalgia will bring them back to "
718 17 | to be called prophet of nothingness, to whom the terrifying
719 29 | i.e., the clear and precise notion of Christianity, from teaching
720 29 | Psalms xiii. 1), and the number of these fools who today
721 23 | strength of this, to be numbered among the faithful followers
722 27 | ages and to the present day numbers more confessors and voluntary
723 19 | interior feelings, however numerous they be, anyone overlooks
724 37 | goes out to Religious and nuns, as well as Our sympathy
725 10 | fullness of His right to be obeyed by individuals and communities,
726 29 | eternal principles of an objective morality, which educates
727 33 | makes this organization obligatory to all, then, without prejudice
728 19 | may see her divine mission obscured by human, too human, combination,
729 12 | desert; to encounter the obstinacy and provocations of those
730 42 | for all of you the joyful occasion that will fill your souls
731 27 | feeling and action. The odious pride of reformers only
732 36 | sympathetic towards those even who offend you, does by no means imply
733 19 | interested, then his appeal to an offended sense of purity identifies
734 36 | your vocation, but also an offense against the real welfare
735 22 | faith in Christ, come and offer you the seduction of a national
736 21 | heroism. If the oppressor offers one the Judas bargain of
737 5 | and practices, which it officially endorsed, would wreck every
738 9 | Personal God, supernatural, omnipotent, infinitely perfect, one
739 28 | type amounts to repudiating openly a fundamental truth of Christianity.
740 19 | work lies among men and operates through men, may see her
741 29 | law to man's subjective opinion, which changes with the
742 5 | be successful or not, to oppose the policy which seeks,
743 16 | His torturer's sacrilege opposed the divine and priestly
744 39 | responsibility from the opposite camp, and free his conscience
745 34 | heroic greatness, in lying opposition to evangelical humility
746 21 | that of heroism. If the oppressor offers one the Judas bargain
747 30 | Emancipated from this oral rule, the principle would
748 12 | of the Church of Christ, "ordained in the things that appertain
749 7 | end to end mightily, and ordereth all things sweetly" (Wisdom
750 36 | Bishops on the day of their ordination; to all those who in the
751 31 | enrollment into schools organized without a semblance of freedom,
752 33 | Gal. i. 9). If the State organizes a national youth, and makes
753 31 | as it is divine in its origin, cannot but declare that
754 25 | 25. "Original sin" is the hereditary but
755 | Ours
756 20 | spontaneously adopts both outwardly and inwardly, the true attitude
757 34 | immortal soul, not to be overcome by evil, but to aim at the
758 19 | numerous they be, anyone overlooks the overwhelming sum of
759 4 | enemy" of Holy Scripture - oversowed the cockle of distrust,
760 4 | of a determined hostility overt or veiled, fed from many
761 19 | be, anyone overlooks the overwhelming sum of authentic virtues,
762 33 | give to the State what they owe to God alone. ~
763 3 | Our sole object, that the pacific and maternal hand of the
764 2 | pastoral heart knows no deeper pain, no disappointment more
765 21 | may my tongue cleave to my palate if, yielding to worldly
766 7 | Whoever identifies, by pantheistic confusion, God and the universe,
767 22 | national churches with their paralysis, their domestication and
768 35 | patience. Beloved sons, who participate with Us in the sacred mysteries,
769 8 | people, or the State, or a particular form of State, or the depositories
770 15 | books, they reflect in many particulars the imperfection, the weakness
771 5 | how the other contracting party emasculated the terms of
772 35 | in post-War days have not passed over its soul without leaving
773 15 | manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets
774 2 | many are straying from the path of truth." ~
775 2 | and in spite of their own patriotic love, to add reports of
776 21 | goes out to those who must pay so dearly for their loyalty
777 3 | service essential for its peaceful development and prosperity.
778 17 | 17. The peak of the revelation as reached
779 15 | his revelation; they are penetrated by a subdued light, harmonizing
780 33 | of Heaven. Thousands of pens are wielded in the service
781 15 | this background that one perceives the striking perspective
782 27 | assistance of grace are perfectly compatible with self-confidence
783 | perhaps
784 42 | 42. Like other periods of the history of the Church,
785 17 | Gospel of Christ is final and permanent. It knows no retouches by
786 10 | they are. This obedience permeates all branches of activity
787 30 | international law carry a perpetual state of war between nations;
788 43 | day of judgment; for the persecutors and oppressors, that the
789 13 | priests and Faithful, who have persisted in their Christian duty
790 19 | too human, combination, persistently growing and developing like
791 30 | basic fact that man as a person possesses rights he holds
792 9 | perfect, one in the Trinity of Persons, tri-personal in the unity
793 15 | one perceives the striking perspective of the divine tutorship
794 10 | with the law of God, and pervades all integration of the ever-changing
795 8 | idolatrous level, distorts and perverts an order of the world planned
796 34 | moderation and within limits, physical education is a boon for
797 12 | blasphemies, which, in words and pictures, are multiplying like the
798 30 | this order is to shake the pillars on which society rests,
799 33 | received on the knees of a pious mother, from the lips of
800 43 | Sunday, March 14, 1937. ~PIUS XI ~
801 39 | the responsibility God has placed on you over your children.
802 33 | manifestations are even today placing Christian parents in a painful
803 3 | that We wished to make it plain, Christ's interests being
804 8 | perverts an order of the world planned and created by God; he is
805 20 | will according to His own plans, not those of men. But the
806 4 | tree of peace, which we planted on German soil with the
807 23 | of Christ, is a senseless play on words, if it does not
808 15 | made Man, there shone the plentitude of divine revelation. "God,
809 28 | will do well to resist this plunder of sacred things and this
810 29 | whose bitter fruit will poison future generations. ~
811 29 | organization of social and political life, spells spiritual spoliation
812 10 | and uncrowned, rich and poor are equally subject to His
813 27 | though it were but a cowardly pose of self-degradation. ~
814 21 | than one whose official position is intended to create the
815 30 | this natural law, that all positive law, whoever be the lawgiver,
816 29 | fallow, or to exclude them positively from public education, would
817 30 | fact that man as a person possesses rights he holds from God,
818 3 | as far as it was humanly possible, the trials and difficulties
819 35 | people have undergone in post-War days have not passed over
820 37 | voluntary abnegation and poverty, have tried to serve their
821 31 | impede this profession and practice of Faith are against natural
822 43 | in Him, "We cease not to pray and to beg" (Col. i. 9)
823 6 | words from the Lord: "I have prayed for thee that thy faith
824 12 | never-failing reparatory prayers of the Faithful, hourly
825 7 | Whoever follows that so-called pre-Christian Germanic conception of substituting
826 33 | to you: If any one should preach to you a Gospel other than
827 19 | lest perhaps, when he had preached to others, he himself should
828 42 | of Lent and Easter, which preaches interior renovation and
829 29 | commandments of God and the precepts of the Church (which are
830 29 | Christianity, i.e., the clear and precise notion of Christianity,
831 15 | every fault and sin. It is precisely in the twilight of this
832 6 | comfort from him whose first predecessor heard these words from the
833 39 | the stake of a campaign pregnant with consequences. The Church
834 20 | is able to raise men to prepare the way to his designs" (
835 31 | Faith, and according to its prescriptions. Laws and measures which
836 30 | 30. Such is the rush of present-day life that it severs from
837 34 | in moral life? That the preservation of baptismal innocence is
838 31 | whose mission it is to preserve and explain the natural
839 19 | and the Church seriously, preserves its love of God and of men
840 33 | which is not of Christ. Press and wireless daily force
841 15 | passion will see in this prevarication, as reported by the Biblical
842 34 | 34. No one would think of preventing young Germans establishing
843 19 | In Our Encyclical on the priesthood We have urged attention
844 31 | educative duties, have a primary right to the education of
845 29 | dereliction of the eternal principles of an objective morality,
846 10 | so His law knows neither privilege nor exception. Rulers and
847 30 | which by a give and take process, every one can claim for
848 36 | renunciation of the right of proclaiming, vindicating and defending
849 20 | flashes out of passion, has produced unrest instead of light,
850 33 | wireless daily force on you productions hostile to the Faith and
851 12 | name and His word be not profaned; to put a stop to the blasphemies,
852 31 | has an absolute right to profess his Faith and live according
853 33 | and of being hurt in your professional and social life. We are
854 37 | religious communities will profit by their trials and difficulties
855 18 | fruits of education and progress, which she can only bless
856 36 | those who have kept their promised fidelity to their Bishops
857 21 | if, yielding to worldly promises or threats, I betray the
858 5 | side are to be found the promoters of peace, and on which side
859 2 | truth in all its reality, prompt Us to add: "Our pastoral
860 3 | a solemn treaty, We were prompted by the desire, as it behooved
861 25 | eternal life, together with a propensity to evil, which everybody
862 17 | would deserve to be called prophet of nothingness, to whom
863 15 | past to the fathers by the prophets last of all, in these days
864 3 | which the Reich Government proposed on the basis of a scheme
865 23 | what God has revealed and proposes through His Church to man'
866 30 | right is common utility," a proposition which may be given a correct
867 3 | peaceful development and prosperity. Hence, despite many and
868 30 | which any collectivity must protect against denial, suppression
869 5 | would inevitably follow the protection and even the favor, extended
870 30 | which collectivity alone can provide, also derive from the Creator
871 7 | denies thereby the Wisdom and Providence of God who "Reacheth from
872 12 | encounter the obstinacy and provocations of those who deny, despise
873 43 | searches the hearts and reins (Psalm vii. 10) is Our witness
874 24 | purpose of eternal reward or punishment. Whoever only means by the
875 29 | coercive power of the State, no purely human ideal, however noble
876 4 | on German soil with the purest intention, has not brought
877 33 | that this organization is purged of all manifestations hostile
878 42 | new ascension of interior purification, on the sole condition that
879 19 | conscience, of mercilessly purifying himself, and energetically
880 41 | responsibility; for Our pastoral love pursues them none the less for all
881 35 | before God and the incessant pursuit of your perfection and sanctification,
882 12 | word be not profaned; to put a stop to the blasphemies,
883 22 | a world Church alone is qualified and competent. The live
884 18 | the development of every quality, advantage, task and vocation
885 31 | measures which in school questions fail to respect this freedom
886 23 | instinct in every heart, is quite a different thing from faith
887 18 | is one, the same for all races and all nations. Beneath
888 27 | itself with ridicule when it rails at Christian humility as
889 4 | religious war, instead of the rainbow of peace, blacken the German
890 20 | of stones He is able to raise men to prepare the way to
891 7 | dimensions of the world, or raising the world to the dimensions
892 33 | soldier of Christ in your ranks, who with torn feelings,
893 40 | this, that Our words may reach the ears and the hearts
894 17 | peak of the revelation as reached in the Gospel of Christ
895 7 | and Providence of God who "Reacheth from end to end mightily,
896 30 | sin or passion, can easily read. It is in the light of the
897 2 | world the truth in all its reality, prompt Us to add: "Our
898 | recent
899 21 | who imagine that they can reconcile exterior infidelity to one
900 15 | and nobleness, they also record the story of the chosen
901 25 | death of the Son of God has redeemed the world from the hereditary
902 18 | The Church founded by the Redeemer is one, the same for all
903 16 | priestly sacrifice of His redeeming death, and made the new
904 30 | rights. We are especially referring to what is called the natural
905 15 | and didactic books, they reflect in many particulars the
906 20 | Every true and lasting reform has ultimately sprung from
907 20 | On the other hand, any reformatory zeal, which instead of springing
908 29 | the acceptance, but the refusal of their duty. The conscientious
909 19 | keeps a grip on itself, refuses every compromise with the
910 36 | neighbors is to serve truth and refute error in any of its forms.
911 29 | shifting sands of human regulations, sooner or later lead these
912 3 | for a concordat, which the Reich Government proposed on the
913 17 | and by breaking up the reign of sin deserved for us the
914 43 | searches the hearts and reins (Psalm vii. 10) is Our witness
915 18 | danger of divergency. She rejoices at the spiritual superiorities
916 39 | oppressors, who pretend to relieve you of your duties can answer
917 20 | than those it was out to remedy. No doubt "the Spirit breatheth
918 29 | is based. All efforts to remove from under morality and
919 3 | as by the sincere wish to render the German people a service
920 37 | trials and difficulties tO renew their zeal, their spirit
921 19 | from God - the spiritual renewal they so much need. A Christianity
922 19 | himself, and energetically renewing himself in spirit and in
923 42 | which preaches interior renovation and penance, turn Christian
924 36 | does by no means imply a renunciation of the right of proclaiming,
925 12 | God, by the never-failing reparatory prayers of the Faithful,
926 19 | Church. And today we again repeat with all the insistency
927 15 | Revelation and the Promise, repeatedly straying from God and turning
928 19 | innocence or in sincere repentance. If the Apostle of the nations,
929 15 | in this prevarication, as reported by the Biblical history,
930 2 | own patriotic love, to add reports of things hard and unpleasant.
931 19 | sin. But if, besides these reprehensible discrepancies be between
932 2 | 2. And what the representatives of the venerable episcopate,
933 25 | resistance and moral effort, repress and conquer. The passion
934 5 | not without surprise and reprobation, how the other contracting
935 28 | so-called German type amounts to repudiating openly a fundamental truth
936 24 | concept of the universe, which requires a moral order. ~
937 28 | people of God will do well to resist this plunder of sacred things
938 25 | assistance of grace, penance, resistance and moral effort, repress
939 38 | their pastors, their joyous resolution to remain ever faithful,
940 43 | support in your difficult resolutions, as a comfort in the struggle,
941 39 | bear on you and the duty of respecting the freedom of education.
942 40 | of Our Faithful, the echo responding to the solicitude of the
943 4 | these last years have fixed responsibilities and laid bare intrigues,
944 43 | than to see in Germany the restoration of a true peace between
945 30 | pillars on which society rests, and to compromise social
946 29 | forces of destruction. The resulting dereliction of the eternal
947 42 | the enemies of God, again resume the task God has laid upon
948 17 | and permanent. It knows no retouches by human hand; it admits
949 14 | and to whom the Son will reveal Him" (Luke x. 22). "Now
950 15 | splendor of the divine light revealing the saving plan which finally
951 30 | be entirely true, must be reversed and be made to say: "Nothing
952 29 | consoling faith in a God who rewards all good and punishes all
953 10 | crowned and uncrowned, rich and poor are equally subject
954 27 | only covers itself with ridicule when it rails at Christian
955 33 | 33. Thousands of voices ring into your ears a Gospel
956 42 | towards the Cross and the risen Christ; be for all of you
957 12 | of the Faithful, hourly rising like incense to the All-Highest
958 9 | and cannot, tolerate a rival God by His side. ~
959 22 | Church of Christ, on the rock of Peter (Matt. xvi. 18).
960 22 | primacy of the Bishop of Rome. The same moment when Peter,
961 22 | guarantee against division and ruin, a pledge for the future:
962 30 | Emancipated from this oral rule, the principle would in
963 30 | 30. Such is the rush of present-day life that
964 38 | and at the cost of untold sacrifices, have remained faithful
965 16 | God who to His torturer's sacrilege opposed the divine and priestly
966 17 | Should any man dare, in sacrilegious disregard of the essential
967 34 | which fill her history, the saints she begot, the blessing
968 19 | of the Church that "the salt of the earth," the leaven
969 35 | and solicitude of the Good Samaritan. Let your daily conduct
970 21 | with Our Lord: "Begone, Satan! For it is written: The
971 3 | when, to your unanimous satisfaction, We concluded the negotiations
972 43 | enlighten them as He enlightened Saul on the road of Damascus.
973 17 | men, whereby we must be saved (Acts iv. 12). No man, were
974 15 | divine light revealing the saving plan which finally triumphs
975 29 | God, who as Legislator, says - Thou must! - also gives
976 19 | know the Savior's words on scandal and the giver of scandals,
977 19 | scandal and the giver of scandals, know, too, the judgment
978 3 | proposed on the basis of a scheme of several years' standing;
979 17 | 12). No man, were every science, power and worldly strength
980 36 | its forms. Failure on this score would be not only a betrayal
981 19 | their vile profession, to scrutinize what is human in the Church,
982 43 | 43. He who searches the hearts and reins (Psalm
983 3 | desire, as it behooved Us, to secure for Germany the freedom
984 30 | compromise social tranquillity, security and existence. ~
985 22 | come and offer you the seduction of a national German Church,
986 4 | where We tried to sow the seed of a sincere peace, other
987 5 | oppose the policy which seeks, by open or secret means,
988 18 | In their successes she sees with maternal joy and pride
989 27 | perfectly compatible with self-confidence and heroism. The Church
990 27 | were but a cowardly pose of self-degradation. ~
991 31 | schools organized without a semblance of freedom, is the result
992 38 | ancestors. To all of them We send Our paternal greetings.
993 36 | Father of the Christian world sends his words of gratitude and
994 23 | followers of Christ, is a senseless play on words, if it does
995 34 | freedom in the mud of sin and sensuality. He who sings hymns of loyalty
996 14 | Jesus Christ whom thou has sent" (John xvii. 3). Nobody,
997 19 | commands of God and the Church seriously, preserves its love of God
998 22 | the very outset, not only serves the purity of his faith
999 | several
1000 22 | condemned every branch that is severed from the trunk of the living
1001 30 | present-day life that it severs from the divine foundation
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