14. Just as the smallest part of the body feels the effect of an
illness which is ravaging the whole body or one of its vital organs, so the
evils now besetting society and the family afflict even individuals. In
particular, We cannot but lament the morbid restlessness which has spread among
people of every age and condition in life, the general spirit of
insubordination and the refusal to live up to one's obligations which has
become so widespread as almost to appear the customary mode of living. We
lament, too, the destruction of purity among women and young girls as is
evidenced by the increasing immodesty of their dress and conversation and by
their participation in shameful dances, which sins are made the more heinous by
the vaunting in the faces of people less fortunate than themselves their
luxurious mode of life. Finally, We cannot but grieve
over the great increase in the number of what might be called social misfits
who almost inevitably end by joining the ranks of those malcontents who
continually agitate against all order, be it public or private.
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