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1 1 | Italy and throughout the Catholic world. These occurrences
2 2 | pray with Us and with the Catholic world that they may be fulfilled.~
3 5 | especially the Associations of Catholic Action and of Catholic Youth),
4 5 | of Catholic Action and of Catholic Youth), have sent Us so
5 5 | satisfaction to see the Catholic Action organizations of
6 5 | astonishment and grief in seeing Catholic Action societies persecuted
7 5 | parts of the world where Catholic Action exists, Catholic
8 5 | Catholic Action exists, Catholic Action is true to its solemn
9 7 | brought to Us that the Italian Catholic Action societies, especially
10 7 | societies, especially the Catholic Youth Associations, have
11 7 | special way We thank your Catholic Associations and chiefly
12 10| University students affiliated to Catholic Action. It was a disbanding
13 13| this Holy See, to Italian Catholic Action, and particularly
14 13| of our dear children of Catholic Action, and especially of
15 17| such as were the attacks on Catholic Action, and its different
16 18| Italy, and indeed in all the Catholic world, as became immediately
17 22| affirmed and protested that Catholic Action, both from its very
18 22| says: "The assertion that Catholic Action has not had a true
19 22| flippancy of what follows. Catholic Action, says the message,
20 23| reason is that the heads of Catholic Action were almost to a
21 23| launched many times against Catholic Action, but always in a
22 23| measures were taken against Catholic Action, and in evident preparation
23 24| any directive office in Catholic Action. We have also found
24 24| become local directors in Catholic Action consist of four.
25 24| committees, 4,000 sections of Catholic men, and more than 5,000
26 24| more than 5,000 circles of Catholic youth. And we must add that
27 25| mentioning another guarantee that Catholic Action abstains from politics,
28 25| to the Bishops of Italy. Catholic Action has been, is, and
29 25| who formerly belonged to Catholic Action continued to belong
30 25| Action continued to belong to Catholic Action, and they submitted
31 25| to the fundamental law of Catholic Action, that is, abstention
32 25| expelled or not admitted to Catholic Action when they possessed
33 25| show themselves grateful to Catholic Action, which removed them
34 26| The message asserts that Catholic Action was organized in
35 26| in which the purposes of Catholic Action are thus described,
36 27| for the destruction of the Catholic circles of Youth is the
37 27| is also true: that of the Catholic circles of youth which were
38 28| remain the circles of the Catholic young men, that same Catholic
39 28| Catholic young men, that same Catholic Youth which in the publications
40 29| associations of young men of Catholic Action, you will see, Venerable
41 31| documents of all the centres of Catholic Action have been sequestered "
42 31| politics woven and directed by Catholic Action with all this peril
43 31| in so many places on the Catholic Action Associations even
44 32| religious activity of all Catholic Action, and particularly
45 33| that to accuse Italian Catholic Action of engaging in politics
46 33| real target aimed at when Catholic Action was struck, and what
47 34| celebrated men, a man neither a Catholic nor a friend of Catholicism,
48 34| Italy by the existence of Catholic Action" it is necessary
49 34| world, as far as China, Catholic Action exists and lives,
50 34| smallest details the Italian Catholic Action. In some countries
51 34| no State of the world has Catholic Action been so hatefully
52 36| so-called political activity of Catholic Action, the alleged manifest
53 36| sheltered under the banner of Catholic Action itself is only a
54 36| attempted is to tear away from Catholic Action and, through this
55 36| after all the talk about Catholic Action, aim was taken only
56 36| the young affiliated to Catholic Action. Rough hands were
57 39| concerning the true nature of Catholic Action and its work, and
58 44| persecute for this reason Catholic Action, as has been done
59 44| this end by striking at the Catholic Association of Youth as
60 48| the first foundations of Catholic Action, by choosing and
61 49| the profession of being a Catholic, to come to teach the Church
62 50| work of the Church done by Catholic Action and through Catholic
63 50| Catholic Action and through Catholic Action is superseded and
64 51| any way be reconciled with Catholic doctrine and practice, but
65 52| cannot be reconciled by a Catholic either with Catholic doctrine
66 52| by a Catholic either with Catholic doctrine or with the natural
67 52| It is not possible for a Catholic to accept the claim that
68 53| the just claims of true Catholic doctrine, and with the inviolable
69 55| hereby say, that he is a Catholic only in name and by baptism (
70 55| combats and persecutes Catholic Action which, as is universally
71 57| terms, the answer from the Catholic point of view, as well as
72 62| found to be contrary to Catholic doctrine and Catholic practice,
73 62| to Catholic doctrine and Catholic practice, and therefore
74 62| irreconcilable with the Catholic name and profession. And
75 63| can the party gain, in a Catholic country like Italy, through
76 63| cannot be reconciled with a Catholic conscience? The consciences
77 64| be alleged that "Italy is Catholic but anti-clerical," We will
78 65| of the force used against Catholic Action will suffice to keep
79 66| declared that "respect for the Catholic religion, and for its supreme
80 66| towards Us on the part of the Catholic world, and of the non-Catholic
81 67| has been decided that Our Catholic young people must not meet,
82 69| been said recently that Catholic Action is now in the hands
83 69| before and from the beginning Catholic Action was not always essentially
84 69| states: "as is proper for a Catholic Bishop."~
85 73| remain worthy of the name of Catholic. Yet Catholics will never
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