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1 1 | 1. A Lively and Supernatural
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3 Inc | omnium ecclesiarum (2 Cor. 11:28). That is why on many occasions,
4 Inc | not inflamed?" (2 Cor. 11:29). And how he advises us
5 1 | heroes in the fight (Hebr. 11:33 ff). ~We call firm faith:
6 Inc | filled Christ! (Phil. 2:5 ). ~What does a heart so
7 | about
8 Inc | influence. But now you appear abroad, you enter the arena to
9 2 | conspicuous only by their absence. Consequently, there is
10 1 | We call firm faith: an absolute faith, without reservations
11 4 | sphere of action, without absorption, domination or subjection,
12 2 | of religion are at stake; abstention in this case is in itself,
13 2 | years ago, continues to gam acceptance: return to the purely "spiritual."
14 Inc | been done, much has been accomplished. Despite a few individual
15 | according
16 1 | by day, is expressed in acts of humility, prayer, and
17 4 | support. ~Little need be added, in closing, to emphasize
18 1 | not forget it: -- We now address those who because of their
19 1 | of which fills you with admiration, as it fills with amazement
20 1 | hope of winning over the adversary by walking in his wake and
21 Inc | Cor. 11:29). And how he advises us to have the feelings
22 Inc | particular all those in public affairs, to give attention to the
23 1 | those who because of their age and social environment are
24 1 | First of all, a faith proud, alert, fearless, firm and alive
25 1 | alert, fearless, firm and alive to truth, to the triumph
26 Inc | the second of June in Our allocution to the Sacred College, We
27 | already
28 | also
29 1 | admiration, as it fills with amazement even the unbeliever. Are
30 Inc | women and young girls the anguish and destitution which are
31 Inc | dealing with an irrational animal without immortality? Is
32 2 | is nothing short of being anti-Catholic. ~The slogan should be the
33 1 | you intend to battle the anti-Christian forces which are "totalitarian,"
34 Inc | world. Our concern and Our appeal, knowing well with what
35 Inc | powerful influence. But now you appear abroad, you enter the arena
36 Inc | inoffensive and specious appearance hide their fatal consequences,
37 1 | Christ the Redeemer." We applaud your spirit, your youthful
38 1 | back from its most rigorous applications. Do not let yourselves be
39 Inc | insufficient, to bring about appreciable changes in the situation
40 1 | your youthful optimism, and approve your intention. But take
41 Inc | appear abroad, you enter the arena to take part in the battle:
42 3 | questions of just social demands arise, she is always in the vanguard
43 Inc | snatches them from the maternal arms of the Church to throw them
44 Inc | this be a nightmare, and asks oneself how such things
45 2 | have a bearing upon every aspect of human life, as if the
46 4 | domain has several distinct aspects: the safeguard and care
47 Inc | And that under blasting assaults against the Christian foundations
48 4 | careers as members of public assemblies. Most of you must continue
49 2 | from the risk of being led astray in the "temporal" sphere,
50 Inc | them into the claws of an atheistic materialism, vulgar exploiter
51 Inc | like gnawing worms have attacked the roots of the Christian
52 Inc | enslavement of woman, all the attacks directed against her dignity
53 4 | of Christendom. May Mary Auxilium Christianorum be your strength
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55 Inc | In the course of these awful years, women, old and young,
56 1 | truth, which does not draw back from its most rigorous applications.
57 Inc | apostolic and charitable works. Beautiful ideals, where woman, in
58 | become
59 4 | with all Our heart in your behalf. ~We give to you all, and
60 | between
61 Inc | of the Church, where can bewildered woman find the courage to
62 Inc | strength? And that under blasting assaults against the Christian
63 4 | dear to you, Our Apostolic Blessing. ~
64 1 | paralyzed bodies, they cannot block the subversive forces of
65 1 | was needed in the days of bloody persecution. ~
66 1 | them. Lifeless or paralyzed bodies, they cannot block the subversive
67 | both
68 Inc | in the midst of want, the boundless love of mothers and fathers
69 Inc | visits of Our Episcopal Brethren bring Us from day to day
70 4 | ease and happy, and the bringing up of children are very
71 4 | Nativity of Her whose coming brought to the whole world the dawn
72 4 | and effective through your Bureau of Information, a happy
73 1(1)| Charter, Youth Section. I.U.C.W.L. ~Published by the National
74 1 | in Eden, he continues to cajole woman to her downfall, playing
75 1 | fight (Hebr. 11:33 ff). ~We call firm faith: an absolute
76 Inc | especially to what might be called the secularization, the
77 4 | are all to have political careers as members of public assemblies.
78 Inc | all weighs upon Ours which carries before God the responsibility
79 2 | stake; abstention in this case is in itself, it should
80 2 | as loyal defenders of the cause of God and of the Church. ~
81 4 | of joy. Tomorrow We shall celebrate Her glorious Name and the
82 4 | fruitful. ~Three days ago, We celebrated the Nativity of Her whose
83 Inc | encouragement and counsel. This name certainly speaks for the militant
84 Inc | bring about appreciable changes in the situation itself
85 4 | much work from those in charge but unquestionably most
86 Inc | what spirit of faith and charity you listen and with what
87 3 | and will always remain a chief objective of Catholic social
88 4 | Christendom. May Mary Auxilium Christianorum be your strength in the
89 1 | live today in our great cities without loss of faith and
90 4 | use of her prerogatives as citizen. Such is your common role.
91 1 | prestige to safeguard a civic order which cannot survive
92 2 | all intervention in the civil or social order, should
93 Inc | not such false pity which claims to justify euthanasia and
94 4 | distinction of nationality, class, or condition. It is supple
95 Inc | Church to throw them into the claws of an atheistic materialism,
96 Inc | forth, and in which are clearly drawn the lines of discussion
97 Inc | in the composure of the cloister or in apostolic and charitable
98 4 | Little need be added, in closing, to emphasize what We first
99 Inc | militant character of your coalition, its universality, the harmonious
100 4 | further extended, made more cohesive and effective through your
101 Inc | allocution to the Sacred College, We have warned, prayed
102 Inc | You have come before Us, dear women, bearing
103 4 | the Nativity of Her whose coming brought to the whole world
104 Inc | seize this opportunity to complete what We said then to the
105 1 | atheism! ~But you, you are completely otherwise! Surely the battle
106 Inc | the service of God in the composure of the cloister or in apostolic
107 Inc | itself or in public opinion concerning it. And yet, witness the
108 1 | even the unbeliever. Are conditions today so different? As has
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110 Inc | shame to have to mention and confess that even among Catholics,
111 1 | law lightly, would be a confession of a deplorable frivolity
112 Inc | day to day heartrending confidences of their concern for the
113 2 | understood that the Church should confine her activities to a purely
114 Inc | to the counter-attack and conquer. ~Such is the thought which
115 4 | making woman always more conscious of her sacred rights, of
116 Inc | home; or you would have consecrated your life to the service
117 2 | individuals and, as a logical consequence, to harmonize public life
118 4 | Life ~There remains to be considered the domain of political
119 Inc | moment, We experience much consolation and relief in expressing
120 2 | Catholic organizations are conspicuous only by their absence. Consequently,
121 4 | opinion, through her daily contacts, and to influence legislation
122 Inc | grave crisis, We cannot be content with lamenting it or forming
123 Inc | without faltering under continual trials, conjugal fidelity,
124 2 | sin of omission. On the contrary, to exercise, and exercise
125 4 | children are very special contributions to the common welfare. So
126 Inc | world. Towards the center converge all the rays of activity
127 Inc | words of encouragement and counsel. This name certainly speaks
128 Inc | determined to pass to the counter-attack and conquer. ~Such is the
129 Inc | not sought to do so, but courageously you accept your new duties;
130 1 | presence of God, that as human creatures you are powerless and need
131 2 | Unfortunately, too often in such crises Catholic organizations are
132 Inc | Witnesses of such a grave crisis, We cannot be content with
133 Inc | been and still is, in these cruel times, their own fate and
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135 4 | public opinion, through her daily contacts, and to influence
136 1 | civilization are out of date and henceforth without objective
137 Inc | protect the dignity of the daughter, of the wife, of the mother;
138 4 | brought to the whole world the dawn of joy. Tomorrow We shall
139 Inc | by death, as if one were dealing with an irrational animal
140 1 | Do not let yourselves be deceived, like so many others, after
141 Inc | injustice which, with vain and declamatory promises, snatches them
142 Inc | Moreover, thousands of deeds have movingly shown and
143 1 | nature. Satan does not accept defeat: as in Eden, he continues
144 2 | of the people, as loyal defenders of the cause of God and
145 Inc | victims nor merely in a defensive spirit; you are determined
146 Inc | and to practice them to a degree required of men only in
147 4 | and be, as it were, your delegated representatives. Give them
148 3 | Church has long made that demand her own. ~
149 3 | drawing exactly the line of demarcation between Christian thought
150 2 | social order, should be denied her. As if dogma did not
151 1 | would be a confession of a deplorable frivolity and a fatal instability.
152 Inc | without Christian education, deprived of the help of the Church,
153 Inc | poor waifs, left to their despair after the loss of their
154 Inc | much has been accomplished. Despite a few individual failures,
155 Inc | young girls the anguish and destitution which are theirs. Who could
156 1 | with atheism are set to destroy Christian civilization.
157 Inc | defensive spirit; you are determined to pass to the counter-attack
158 Inc | parents blinds them, to the detriment of their children. In the
159 Inc | to give attention to the devastating work done during the war
160 Inc | unhappy wives? Is it not that deviation from a just solicitude for
161 4 | work and sacrifices their devotion entails; give them your
162 | did
163 1 | Are conditions today so different? As has been well said:
164 4 | confidence, understand their difficulties, the hard work and sacrifices
165 Inc | done is to unite and to direct the living zeal of all toward
166 Inc | of woman, all the attacks directed against her dignity and
167 Inc | to receive from Us some directions for the practical and efficacious
168 1 | others, after thousands of disastrous experiences, with the empty
169 Inc | clearly drawn the lines of discussion of your present congress.
170 4 | This domain has several distinct aspects: the safeguard and
171 4 | It is universal, without distinction of nationality, class, or
172 Inc | the moral and spiritual distress of married and unmarried
173 3 | program: a more equitable distribution of wealth has always been
174 Inc | even among Catholics, false doctrines on the dignity of woman,
175 Inc | present congress. This rich documentation reflects, as in a mirror,
176 Inc | emerges from the substantial documents, in which your programs
177 2 | should be denied her. As if dogma did not have a bearing upon
178 2 | her activities to a purely dogmatic teaching, to the offering
179 4 | action, without absorption, domination or subjection, but all united
180 4 | undertaking requiring no doubt much work from those in
181 1 | continues to cajole woman to her downfall, playing upon her nature
182 Inc | must say, alas, the actual drama of woman's world. Towards
183 3 | with Christian thought. ~In drawing exactly the line of demarcation
184 Inc | and in which are clearly drawn the lines of discussion
185 1 | to you the lives of the early Christians. Those Christians
186 4 | home in which all feel at ease and happy, and the bringing
187 Inc | Shepherd solicitude omnium ecclesiarum (2 Cor. 11:28). That is
188 4 | the social and national economy. ~Those among you who have
189 1 | not accept defeat: as in Eden, he continues to cajole
190 4 | made more cohesive and effective through your Bureau of Information,
191 2 | right to vote is to work effectively for the true good of the
192 Inc | directions for the practical and efficacious carrying out of your resolutions.
193 Inc | those efforts and of their efficacy for this defense. ~Strengthened
194 | else
195 Inc | Such is the thought which emerges from the substantial documents,
196 4 | be added, in closing, to emphasize what We first noted: the
197 3 | Many times recently We have emphasized this recommendation because,
198 1 | disastrous experiences, with the empty hope of winning over the
199 Inc | possible has been done to enable woman to draw from the Christian
200 Inc | give you a few words of encouragement and counsel. This name certainly
201 Inc | spirit of sacrifice and endurance of all kinds of sufferings --
202 1 | your own tendencies by an energetic "No!" But how can you say
203 Inc | Christian education, the energy, the patience, the perseverance,
204 Inc | the materialization, the enslavement of woman, all the attacks
205 4 | sacrifices their devotion entails; give them your help and
206 Inc | now you appear abroad, you enter the arena to take part in
207 Inc | have warned, prayed and entreated all Christians, all upright
208 1 | of their age and social environment are more especially exposed
209 Inc | letters and visits of Our Episcopal Brethren bring Us from day
210 3 | women, provided there be equal work and output." The Church
211 3 | We can say as much for "equality of salary, for men and women,
212 3 | in your program: a more equitable distribution of wealth has
213 Inc | which claims to justify euthanasia and to remove from man purifying
214 Inc | history of humanity, have events required on the part of
215 | everyone
216 1 | above all, to give them evidence that for a Catholic, her
217 Inc | and political life. For an evolution in the entire social order,
218 3 | Christian thought. ~In drawing exactly the line of demarcation
219 2 | into, or even the right of examination in the domain of public
220 Inc | and from her proper place, exercises quietly a powerful influence.
221 1 | grace of God. Now you cannot expect to obtain this grace without
222 1 | thousands of disastrous experiences, with the empty hope of
223 Inc | enemies who know how to exploit in poor women and young
224 Inc | atheistic materialism, vulgar exploiter of their poverty. ~From
225 Inc | your resolutions. We shall express them and group them as follows: ~
226 1 | one which, day by day, is expressed in acts of humility, prayer,
227 1 | Your young generation expresses, in its charter1 the hope
228 Inc | consolation and relief in expressing to you, dear women, gathered
229 3 | dear daughters, set forth expressly in your program: a more
230 4 | common purpose, is further extended, made more cohesive and
231 Inc | monstrous theories and to extol immoral and fatal practices.
232 Inc | required of men only in extraordinary circumstances. ~Now, who
233 1 | Christian civilization. Facing them, we perceive the many
234 4 | welfare. So we rejoice in the fact, which you yourselves rightly
235 Inc | it. And yet, witness the facts. We had pointed out the
236 Inc | Despite a few individual failures, we can face with confidence
237 1 | a faith which does not falter before the ultimate consequences
238 Inc | help needed to keep without faltering under continual trials,
239 Inc | the efforts for defense, far from weakening, have been
240 Inc | to see them always hold fast through their mere natural
241 Inc | boundless love of mothers and fathers for their children. ~But
242 Inc | heart so filled have to fear? Subtle illusions. It is
243 1 | all, a faith proud, alert, fearless, firm and alive to truth,
244 4 | subjection, but all united in a federation freely accepted for common
245 4 | making of a home in which all feel at ease and happy, and the
246 Inc | he advises us to have the feelings which filled Christ! (Phil.
247 1 | in the fight (Hebr. 11:33 ff). ~We call firm faith: an
248 1 | made of you heroes in the fight (Hebr. 11:33 ff). ~We call
249 Inc | where can bewildered woman find the courage to face unfalteringly
250 Inc | express them and group them as follows: ~
251 Inc | old and young, have been forced to practice more than manly
252 2 | soul of a people is being forged. Unfortunately, too often
253 | formerly
254 Inc | content with lamenting it or forming sterile wishes. What must
255 1 | the world who accept as a foundation the natural law which has
256 4 | all united in a federation freely accepted for common action.
257 1 | confession of a deplorable frivolity and a fatal instability.
258 2 | We can have, thank God, full confidence in you on that
259 1 | spontaneously, joyously, and fully accepted. To take this law
260 4 | rights, dignity, and social function -- the participation of
261 | further
262 1 | solid and living reality. ~Furthermore, a firm and living faith
263 2 | years ago, continues to gam acceptance: return to the
264 Inc | expressing to you, dear women, gathered here from the whole Catholic
265 4 | all. ~Your own role is, in general, to work toward making woman
266 1 | your model. ~Your young generation expresses, in its charter1
267 3 | good of all the people, the genuine common good. When questions
268 4 | Tomorrow We shall celebrate Her glorious Name and the memory of the
269 Inc | you listen and with what glowing zeal you will everywhere
270 Inc | infiltrated souls, and like gnawing worms have attacked the
271 4 | s work in the home still goes hand in hand with her contribution
272 Inc | experience of the past years, and going over the principal points
273 Inc | We shall express them and group them as follows: ~
274 Inc | present to woman, in entire groups of nations, in practically
275 Inc | safekeeping of the child under the guardianship of his parents. ~We Ourselves
276 | had
277 Inc | how such things can have happened in our time and in the world
278 2 | logical consequence, to harmonize public life with the law
279 1 | could not have won over hatred, irreligion, and lust, the
280 4 | for the restoration of a healthy and prosperous society,
281 Inc | bring Us from day to day heartrending confidences of their concern
282 1 | on your minds and in your hearts, recalling to you the lives
283 2 | Consequently, there is a heavy responsibility on everyone,
284 1 | you heroes in the fight (Hebr. 11:33 ff). ~We call firm
285 1 | civilization are out of date and henceforth without objective value,
286 1 | Your faith has made of you heroes in the fight (Hebr. 11:33
287 Inc | and specious appearance hide their fatal consequences,
288 | him
289 2 | to the offering of the Holy Sacrifice, the administration
290 4 | attention to the care of your homes and families. We must not
291 Inc | loss of their purity, their honor. ~It is a sorrow and a shame
292 Inc | sorrows, their joys and their hopes. So said St. Paul: "Who
293 Inc | course of the history of humanity, have events required on
294 Inc | pretend that all that is humanly possible has been done to
295 1 | unless you understand and humbly recognize, in the presence
296 1 | is expressed in acts of humility, prayer, and sacrifice.
297 3 | have been tendencies to identify the doctrine of the Church
298 3 | III. Fidelity in Social Activity
299 Inc | filled have to fear? Subtle illusions. It is not enough to be
300 Inc | monstrous theories and to extol immoral and fatal practices. Is
301 1 | battle against unbelief and immorality, natural resources and all
302 Inc | irrational animal without immortality? Is it not again this misleading
303 2 | with the law of God, to impregnate it with the spirit of Christ!
304 1 | political forces more or less impregnated with atheism are set to
305 Inc | of their family, are so impressing that one questions whether
306 1 | must have left a profound impression on your minds and in your
307 2 | sacraments, and that all incursion into, or even the right
308 4 | institutions which, though varied, individually keep their character, their
309 2 | invigorate the lives of individuals and, as a logical consequence,
310 Inc | be wise and strong. The indulgent weakness of parents blinds
311 Inc | and death, have stealthily infiltrated souls, and like gnawing
312 Inc | to stumble, and I am not inflamed?" (2 Cor. 11:29). And how
313 4 | effective through your Bureau of Information, a happy undertaking requiring
314 Inc | the part of woman so much initiative and daring, so much sense
315 Inc | for the victims of social injustice which, with vain and declamatory
316 Inc | out here, because their inoffensive and specious appearance
317 1 | deplorable frivolity and a fatal instability. Do not forget it: -- We
318 4 | specific activities, their integrity, and their proper sphere
319 1 | of Catholic doctrine. The intellectual and political forces more
320 1 | sacrifice. Precisely because you intend to battle the anti-Christian
321 Inc | have been more and more intensified. Your meeting in Rome, your
322 1 | optimism, and approve your intention. But take care: the great
323 1 | dangers -- no matter how well intentioned you may be, you share like
324 4 | more in keeping with Our intentions. ~And this special contribution
325 Inc | the proudly daring name, International Union of Catholic Women'
326 2 | domain of public life, all intervention in the civil or social order,
327 2 | were not to maintain and invigorate the lives of individuals
328 4 | God and of the Church. We invoke Her with all Our heart in
329 Inc | one were dealing with an irrational animal without immortality?
330 3 | the Church with theories irreconcilable with Christian thought. ~
331 1 | not have won over hatred, irreligion, and lust, the splendid
332 Inc | to the Catholic women of Italy. The years of World War
333 4 | IV. The Place and Role of Woman
334 4 | whole world the dawn of joy. Tomorrow We shall celebrate
335 1 | law of God spontaneously, joyously, and fully accepted. To
336 Inc | in their sorrows, their joys and their hopes. So said
337 Inc | confidence the always severe judgment of history. Moreover, thousands
338 Inc | recently again on the second of June in Our allocution to the
339 Inc | false pity which claims to justify euthanasia and to remove
340 4 | Nothing could be more in keeping with Our intentions. ~And
341 Inc | sacrifice and endurance of all kinds of sufferings -- in a word,
342 Inc | concern and Our appeal, knowing well with what spirit of
343 Inc | will everywhere make it known. ~Witnesses of such a grave
344 Inc | many have fallen! Only God knows the number of these poor
345 1(1)| Youth Section. I.U.C.W.L. ~Published by the National
346 Inc | We cannot be content with lamenting it or forming sterile wishes.
347 4 | which are still such a large part of society, woman's
348 2 | temporal" sphere, a slogan launched some ten years ago, continues
349 2 | interests are at stake, wherever laws bearing on the worship of
350 1 | so praiseworthily wish to lead an apostolic life, each
351 Inc | sentimentality blinds the mind and leads it to hold monstrous theories
352 Inc | Union of Catholic Women's Leagues. We are happy to welcome
353 2 | Church from the risk of being led astray in the "temporal"
354 4 | among you who have more leisure and are suitably prepared,
355 | let
356 1 | cannot survive without them. Lifeless or paralyzed bodies, they
357 1 | accepted. To take this law lightly, would be a confession of
358 2 | and to the utmost possible limit, wherever vital interests
359 3 | In drawing exactly the line of demarcation between Christian
360 Inc | which are clearly drawn the lines of discussion of your present
361 Inc | of faith and charity you listen and with what glowing zeal
362 4 | your help and support. ~Little need be added, in closing,
363 1 | 1. A Lively and Supernatural Faith ~
364 2 | of individuals and, as a logical consequence, to harmonize
365 3 | output." The Church has long made that demand her own. ~
366 Inc | midst of want, the boundless love of mothers and fathers for
367 4 | of your time and of your loving attention to the care of
368 2 | true good of the people, as loyal defenders of the cause of
369 1 | hatred, irreligion, and lust, the splendid triumphs the
370 2 | supernatural wealth, were not to maintain and invigorate the lives
371 1 | sense, who are after all the majority -- you have, above all,
372 | makes
373 Inc | and fruitful role in the management of a wholesome, strong,
374 Inc | forced to practice more than manly virtues, and to practice
375 Inc | particularly in a domain as many-sided and important as that of
376 Inc | and spiritual distress of married and unmarried women. And,
377 4 | enemies of Christendom. May Mary Auxilium Christianorum be
378 1(1)| Welfare Conference 1312 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington,
379 Inc | the claws of an atheistic materialism, vulgar exploiter of their
380 Inc | the secularization, the materialization, the enslavement of woman,
381 1 | exposed to these dangers -- no matter how well intentioned you
382 4 | common role. It does not mean that you are all to have
383 1 | women who understood what is meant by sacrifice; otherwise
384 Inc | and more intensified. Your meeting in Rome, your presence here
385 4 | have political careers as members of public assemblies. Most
386 4 | Her glorious Name and the memory of the victories won in
387 Inc | greater day by day, and the menace day by day more pressing.
388 Inc | We had pointed out the menacing dangers, and We then referred
389 Inc | hold fast through their mere natural strength? Alas!
390 Inc | as resigned victims nor merely in a defensive spirit; you
391 Inc | remove from man purifying and meritorious suffering, not by a charitable
392 Inc | on many occasions, in Our messages during all these years,
393 Inc | continue to show even in the midst of want, the boundless love
394 | might
395 Inc | certainly speaks for the militant character of your coalition,
396 1 | profound impression on your minds and in your hearts, recalling
397 Inc | Church, of the pastoral ministry, of charitable institutions
398 Inc | documentation reflects, as in a mirror, the actual situation --
399 Inc | immortality? Is it not again this misleading sentimentality which offers
400 1 | wake and taking him as your model. ~Your young generation
401 4 | and of her power to help mold public opinion, through
402 Inc | and of the family. At this moment, We experience much consolation
403 Inc | mind and leads it to hold monstrous theories and to extol immoral
404 | Moreover
405 Inc | daughter, of the wife, of the mother; to preserve the home, the
406 Inc | want, the boundless love of mothers and fathers for their children. ~
407 Inc | thousands of deeds have movingly shown and continue to show
408 2 | of human life, as if the mysteries of the faith with their
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410 4 | without distinction of nationality, class, or condition. It
411 Inc | woman, in entire groups of nations, in practically all parts
412 4 | days ago, We celebrated the Nativity of Her whose coming brought
413 | nevertheless
414 Inc | courageously you accept your new duties; not as resigned
415 Inc | questions whether this be a nightmare, and asks oneself how such
416 | nor
417 4 | emphasize what We first noted: the universality, the harmonious
418 Inc | fallen! Only God knows the number of these poor waifs, left
419 1 | Now you cannot expect to obtain this grace without prayer
420 Inc | 28). That is why on many occasions, in Our messages during
421 2 | dogmatic teaching, to the offering of the Holy Sacrifice, the
422 Inc | misleading sentimentality which offers divorce as a remedy to unhappy
423 | often
424 Inc | these awful years, women, old and young, have been forced
425 2 | grave and a fatal sin of omission. On the contrary, to exercise,
426 Inc | Supreme Shepherd solicitude omnium ecclesiarum (2 Cor. 11:28).
427 Inc | be a nightmare, and asks oneself how such things can have
428 Inc | while each one in turn opens his heart to Us, the burden
429 Inc | of womanhood. ~It seems opportune to Us to point out here,
430 Inc | program, We readily seize this opportunity to complete what We said
431 1 | the first condition is to oppose them by carrying out in
432 2 | slogan should be the very opposite: be present everywhere for
433 1 | your spirit, your youthful optimism, and approve your intention.
434 | other
435 | Ours
436 | Ourselves
437 3 | there be equal work and output." The Church has long made
438 1 | without them. Lifeless or paralyzed bodies, they cannot block
439 4 | and social function -- the participation of some women in political
440 Inc | all upright souls, and in particular all those in public affairs,
441 Inc | spirit; you are determined to pass to the counter-attack and
442 Inc | by the experience of the past years, and going over the
443 Inc | part of the Church, of the pastoral ministry, of charitable
444 Inc | education, the energy, the patience, the perseverance, the supernatural
445 1 | civilization. Facing them, we perceive the many for whom the specifically
446 Inc | fatal consequences, the perils of the heart to which in
447 1 | needed in the days of bloody persecution. ~
448 Inc | energy, the patience, the perseverance, the supernatural help needed
449 Inc | dignity and rights as a person and as a Christian. The
450 Inc | marriage, of the family, of all personal and social life, by enemies
451 2 | that We believe that you personally need to be put on your guard.
452 Inc | feelings which filled Christ! (Phil. 2:5 ). ~What does a heart
453 Inc | parts of the world, a tragic picture without precedent. Never,
454 Inc | practices. Is it not such false pity which claims to justify
455 Inc | seems opportune to Us to point out here, because their
456 Inc | witness the facts. We had pointed out the menacing dangers,
457 Inc | going over the principal points of your program, We readily
458 Inc | of World War II and the post-war years have presented and
459 Inc | vulgar exploiter of their poverty. ~From all parts of the
460 4 | of her duties, and of her power to help mold public opinion,
461 Inc | place, exercises quietly a powerful influence. But now you appear
462 1 | human creatures you are powerless and need the grace of God.
463 Inc | some directions for the practical and efficacious carrying
464 Inc | entire groups of nations, in practically all parts of the world,
465 Inc | extol immoral and fatal practices. Is it not such false pity
466 Inc | on the other hand, God be praised, the efforts for defense,
467 1 | and sacrifice. ~You who so praiseworthily wish to lead an apostolic
468 Inc | not by a charitable and praiseworthy help but by death, as if
469 Inc | College, We have warned, prayed and entreated all Christians,
470 Inc | a tragic picture without precedent. Never, We believe, never
471 1 | prayer, and sacrifice. Precisely because you intend to battle
472 4 | leisure and are suitably prepared, will take up the burden
473 4 | by the proper use of her prerogatives as citizen. Such is your
474 Inc | the post-war years have presented and continue to present
475 Inc | the menace day by day more pressing. But on the other hand,
476 1 | preserve something of their prestige to safeguard a civic order
477 1 | intimate union absolutely presupposes prayer and sacrifice. ~Every
478 Inc | circumstances. ~Now, who will pretend that all that is humanly
479 2 | that score. ~But under the pretense of saving the Church from
480 Inc | family, the child in their primordial order; to safeguard the
481 Inc | years, and going over the principal points of your program,
482 1 | hope of "rallying to your principles all the young women of the
483 1 | in Rome must have left a profound impression on your minds
484 Inc | documents, in which your programs of action are set forth,
485 4 | good, the welfare, and the progress of all. ~Your own role is,
486 Inc | with vain and declamatory promises, snatches them from the
487 3 | in the vanguard of their promotion. This is especially true
488 2 | school, the social order are proposed and discussed. Be there,
489 4 | restoration of a healthy and prosperous society, for the triumph
490 Inc | object is above all else, to protect the dignity of the daughter,
491 1 | Faith ~First of all, a faith proud, alert, fearless, firm and
492 Inc | dear women, bearing the proudly daring name, International
493 3 | salary, for men and women, provided there be equal work and
494 1(1)| Youth Section. I.U.C.W.L. ~Published by the National Catholic
495 Inc | euthanasia and to remove from man purifying and meritorious suffering,
496 4 | contribution of each to the common purpose, is further extended, made
497 2 | you personally need to be put on your guard. We can have,
498 Inc | proper place, exercises quietly a powerful influence. But
499 Inc | a wholesome, strong, and radiant home; or you would have
500 1 | all purely human means are radically insufficient. What you absolutely