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But our gaze turns quickly from the Babe 502 70 | of barring the way of a general liberation from all the 503 72 | the war and who have found generous words to express, together 504 34 | democracy, naively taken for the genuine spirit of democracy, with 505 62 | pertain to smother in its germinal state any threat of isolated 506 44 | liable to be led astray and get lost: men who -- in periods 507 75 | there is only one way of getting out of the meshes in which 508 70 | moral and political, of the gigantic cataclysm which has shaken 509 87 | harmony, towards the common goal, to find at last the cure 510 70 | shown it the road to new goals. ~ 511 11 | the state and those who govern, a new attitude -- one that 512 68 | violently broken, should be gradually welded together again, is 513 93 | there rises to heaven the grateful prayer for them: Deign to 514 70 | it would be to assume the grave responsibility of barring 515 6 | spreading ever wider, on graveyards where are gathered the remains 516 9 | Lord! Out from the mournful groans of sorrow, from the very 517 54 | No world reform, no peace guarantee can abstract from it without 518 8 | the watches of the Divine Guest over a world asleep. What 519 91 | endeavoring to bridge the gulf and bring the peoples together, 520 2 | Christmas liturgy again hails with these words redolent 521 54 | recognition of this principle hangs the future of the peace. 522 51 | manifested in Revelation, secure happy results. Indeed, We are 523 80 | evidence to confute, in a harder way than one could ever 524 92 | ripen into even a larger harvest of good. ~ 525 74 | 74. Hatred and the impossibility of 526 61 | 61. Having passed, as it has, through 527 90 | for the generosity of the head of the State, the Government 528 26 | injury is very often hard to heal. ~ 529 17 | compelled to obey without being heard -- these are two rights 530 88 | lent Us valiant aid as We hearken to the cry of suffering 531 9 | from the very depths of the heart-rending anguish of oppressed individuals 532 88 | without addressing a word of heartfelt gratitude to all those -- 533 11 | encompasses them, in the blazing heat of the furnace that imprisons 534 61 | soul, like a picture of a hell against which anyone who 535 88 | of the world and give a helping hand to so many of Our beloved 536 82 | communicates the supernatural helps of grace in order to actuate 537 65 | inventions, which should have heralded the realization of greater 538 45 | themselves and can produce the heralds and implements of democracy, 539 | here 540 78 | with more independence than heretofore, hoping that thus they will 541 58 | no procrastination, no hesitation, no subterfuge: It is the 542 48 | and evil -- to appeal to a higher law obliging in conscience 543 84 | forms of democracy, the highest and most needed message 544 | himself 545 [Title]| CHARACTERISTICS OF MEN HOLDING POWER IN A DEMOCRATIC STATE ~ 546 31 | a people's government by honest and far-seeing men, what 547 33 | uniformity the sense of true honor, of personal activity, or 548 30 | everyone has the right to live honorably his own personal life in 549 78 | independence than heretofore, hoping that thus they will find 550 61 | recollection of so many horrors must remain stamped in its 551 74 | too dense to hope that the hour has already come when a 552 61 | who cherishes a sense of humanity desires more than anything 553 3 | 3. The humble, mean cradle of Bethlehem, 554 90 | Poland, Roumania, Slovakia, Hungary and Uruguay, who have vied 555 63 | upheld the principle that the idea of war as an apt and proportionate 556 49 | man penetrated with right ideas about the state and authority 557 43 | public life -- for good or ill -- the question of the high 558 52 | Cave of Bethlehem did not illumine the dark path along which 559 80 | than one could ever have imagined, those who spread such doctrine. ~ 560 89 | is but just to record the immense work of assistance achieved 561 47 | democracy, based on the immutable principles of the natural 562 30 | the contrary, so far from impairing civil equality in any way, 563 41 | order with that objectivity, impartiality, loyalty, generosity, and 564 78 | tortured hearts the desire, impatient and almost instinctive, 565 45 | produce the heralds and implements of democracy, who live in 566 17 | in democracy, as its name implies, their expression. ~ 567 67 | any injustice, does not imply any derogation of any right 568 11 | this is perhaps the most important point -- beneath the sinister 569 [Title]| CONSTITUTION EXCLUDING UNJUST IMPOSITION ~ 570 74 | 74. Hatred and the impossibility of mutual understanding 571 44 | moment excite the people's impressionability unduly, and render it more 572 24 | exploits their instincts and impressions; ready to follow in turn, 573 11 | heat of the furnace that imprisons them, the peoples have, 574 24 | the contrary, wait for the impulse from outside, an easy plaything 575 32 | give free rein to a man's impulses and appetites to the detriment 576 15 | both the benignity of the Incarnate Word and the dignity of 577 93 | of charity receive as an incentive and a token of gratitude 578 50 | healthy form of government, including democracy. It is the criterion 579 | Indeed 580 78 | their own hands with more independence than heretofore, hoping 581 36 | which shows that man is an independent person, namely the subject 582 61 | it has lived through the indescribable atrocities with an intensity 583 40 | cognizance of this intimate and indissoluble connection -- least of all 584 86 | stoops down to earth with ineffable grace and benevolence, is 585 23 | life energy; the masses are inert of themselves and can only 586 68 | will in all probability be inevitable. ~ 587 85 | authority and vigor that infinitely transcends that which all 588 66 | nations and of chastisement inflicted on the aggressor by the 589 6 | off no longer awaken the inhabitants with their jubilant Christmas 590 81 | stark reality: brutality, iniquity, destruction, annihilation. ~ 591 26 | seriously, and for a long time, injured by this process, and the 592 26 | by this process, and the injury is very often hard to heal. ~ 593 67 | definite countenance to any injustice, does not imply any derogation 594 12 | stirred by the war to their innermost depths, are today firmly 595 72 | express, together with the insistence on their own need of security 596 55 | order would regulate and inspire equally the deliberations 597 53 | pioneers of democracy be inspired in their deliberations by 598 | instead 599 25 | state and all its organs, instilling into them. with a vigor 600 25 | responsibility, the true instinct for the common good. ~ 601 78 | desire, impatient and almost instinctive, to take the reins of their 602 24 | anyone who exploits their instincts and impressions; ready to 603 55 | society and the use of its instruments of sanction. ~ 604 41 | loyalty, generosity, and integrity without which a democratic 605 43 | standards, practical ability and intellectual capacity of parliamentary 606 61 | indescribable atrocities with an intensity such that the recollection 607 78 | themselves from the periodic invasions of violence which, like 608 65 | Unquestionably the progress of man's inventions, which should have heralded 609 62 | maintenance of peace, of an organ invested by common consent with supreme 610 90 | and the Governments of Ireland, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, 611 62 | germinal state any threat of isolated or collective aggression. ~ 612 46 | sight of completely and jeopardize the true common good. ~ 613 6 | the inhabitants with their jubilant Christmas chimes. ~ 614 77 | But if justice presumed to judge and punish not merely individuals 615 50 | particular law should be judged. ~ 616 14 | Encyclical "Libertas," June 20, 1888). ~ 617 76 | offered a pretext, but never a justification. ~ 618 12 | system of government more in keeping with the dignity and liberty 619 42 | importance in those who in any kind of democratic regime have, 620 44 | antidote of clear views, kindly interest, a justice equally 621 46 | But where such men are lacking, others come to take their 622 8 | 8. Even the little lamp is out in many majestic 623 6 | ever-increasing numbers, on desert lands where a few tottering towers 624 13 | the peoples and winning a large measure of consent and support 625 92 | enmity will ripen into even a larger harvest of good. ~ 626 | last 627 10 | proposals for a solid and lasting peace: undoubtedly one may 628 78 | violence which, like a boiling lava torrent, spares nothing 629 71 | retain the stern lessons learned. ~ 630 44 | render it more liable to be led astray and get lost: men 631 31 | that of a democratic state left to the whims of the masses: ~ 632 42 | whole or part, the power to legislate. ~ 633 47 | corruption as gives to the state legislature in unchecked and unlimited 634 58 | all wars of aggression as legitimate solution of international 635 88 | untold misfortunes have lent Us valiant aid as We hearken 636 14 | the good of the citizens" (Leo Thirteenth: Encyclical " 637 33 | degenerates to a mechanical level, a colorless uniformity 638 70 | barring the way of a general liberation from all the disastrous 639 14 | Thirteenth: Encyclical "Libertas," June 20, 1888). ~ 640 4 | 4. Heads that were bowed lift again serenely, for Christmas 641 11 | beneath the sinister lightning of the war that encompasses 642 10 | bitterness bids fair to reach the limits of paroxysm, and of the 643 51 | to point out along what lines a democracy befitting human 644 5 | Evangelist comes to our lips: "and the light shines in 645 90 | Brazil, Canada, Chile, Italy, Lithuania, Peru, Poland, Roumania, 646 8 | 8. Even the little lamp is out in many majestic 647 2 | dreadful war, the Christmas liturgy again hails with these words 648 61 | experienced in past ages, it has lived through the indescribable 649 6 | fallen or carried off no longer awaken the inhabitants with 650 44 | strong character, who shall look upon themselves as the representatives 651 84 | announce to the world, which is looking for better and more perfect 652 15 | solicitude of the Church looks not so much to its external 653 46 | private interests makes them lose sight of completely and 654 44 | to be led astray and get lost: men who -- in periods of 655 84 | that dignity is tragically low. ~ 656 41 | objectivity, impartiality, loyalty, generosity, and integrity 657 26 | minimum status of a mere machine, can impose its whims on 658 92 | this victory of active and magnanimous charity over the poison 659 [Title]| FORMATION OF A COMMON MEANS TO MAINTAIN PEACE ~ 660 62 | formation of an organ for the maintenance of peace, of an organ invested 661 8 | little lamp is out in many majestic temples, in many modest 662 73 | opinion, or even by the majority. ~ 663 26 | power of the masses, deftly managed and employed, the state 664 44 | entire people and not the mandatories of a mob, whose interests 665 84 | powerful cry, which from the Manger of Bethlehem to the furthest 666 51 | and the designs of God as manifested in Revelation, secure happy 667 87 | and it will be allowed to march forward in cordial harmony, 668 40 | democracy may often serve as a mark for all that is in reality 669 21 | given territory a shapeless mass of individuals. ~ 670 70 | disastrous consequences, material, moral and political, of 671 3 | 3. The humble, mean cradle of Bethlehem, by 672 13 | peoples and winning a large measure of consent and support from 673 33 | Equality degenerates to a mechanical level, a colorless uniformity 674 21 | contain in itself and does not mechanically bring together in a given 675 9 | responsible leaders of nations, meet for talks, for conferences, 676 56 | real and effective over the member states, in suchwise, however, 677 64 | Christian and religious mentality reject modern war with its 678 26 | the minimum status of a mere machine, can impose its 679 75 | way of getting out of the meshes in which war and hate have 680 82 | Christ and to the Church, the messenger of our Redeemer's word which 681 78 | perhaps they have never met before in the course of 682 2 | serenity, the coming into our midst of God, Our Saviour. ~ 683 76 | law, and for whom supposed military necessity could at most 684 26 | the masses, reduced to the minimum status of a mere machine, 685 34 | deluded by the specious mirage of democracy, naively taken 686 88 | reduced to extreme poverty and misery. ~ 687 74 | against each other, to a mist too dense to hope that the 688 44 | not the mandatories of a mob, whose interests are often 689 64 | religious mentality reject modern war with its monstrous means 690 8 | majestic temples, in many modest chapels, where before the 691 35 | democratic state, whether it be monarchical or republican, should, like 692 16 | and can be realized in monarchies as well as in republics, 693 48 | as such, with absolute monarchy, of which we are not treating 694 34 | how to use the power of money and of organization, in 695 40 | is shaken, as is social morality, and that specious appearance 696 9 | be the Lord! Out from the mournful groans of sorrow, from the 697 23 | themselves and can only be moved from outside. The people 698 23 | 23. The people lives and moves by its own life energy; 699 | much 700 22 | people, and a shapeless multitude (or, as it is called, "the 701 12 | liberty of the citizens. These multitudes, uneasy, stirred by the 702 9 | forces continue to engage in murderous battles with weapons ever 703 34 | specious mirage of democracy, naively taken for the genuine spirit 704 67 | to the detriment of any nation (whether it be on the side 705 72 | insistence on their own need of security against any 706 84 | democracy, the highest and most needed message that there can be: 707 | neither 708 67 | the vanquished, or the neutrals), and does not impose any 709 | Nevertheless 710 66 | it emerges from the dark night in which it has been so 711 | nonetheless 712 | nor 713 82 | foundation and directive norm of every democracy. ~ 714 43 | of gravity of a democracy normally set up resides in this popular 715 10 | of paroxysm, and of the notable progress made in aspirations 716 | nothing 717 47 | of the democratic regime, notwithstanding an outward show to the contrary, 718 9 | hope. To an ever-increasing number of noble souls there comes 719 93 | on the feast of love from numberless hearts in anguish, but not 720 6 | victims in ever-increasing numbers, on desert lands where a 721 34 | other, the more or less numerous exploiters, who have known 722 93 | for them: Deign to reward, O Lord, all those who do good 723 17 | on him; not compelled to obey without being heard -- these 724 15 | who, so far from being the object and, as it were, a merely 725 41 | executive order with that objectivity, impartiality, loyalty, 726 41 | position to fulfill their own obligations in the legislative, judicial 727 48 | to appeal to a higher law obliging in conscience is not admitted. ~ 728 29 | do not constitute any obstacle to the existence and the 729 59 | determination, the holy obstinacy, like an obligation in conscience, 730 51 | and Daughters, to take the occasion of Christmastide to point 731 61 | passed, as it has, through an ocean of blood and tears in a 732 | off 733 76 | necessity could at most have offered a pretext, but never a justification. ~ 734 62 | with supreme power to whose office it would also pertain to 735 2 | the sixth time since the opening of the dreadful war, the 736 44 | by passion, by divergent opinions and opposing programs -- 737 49 | conforms -- or at least is not opposed -- to the absolute order 738 9 | heart-rending anguish of oppressed individuals and countries 739 22 | should in practice be, the organic and organizing unity of 740 22 | practice be, the organic and organizing unity of a real people. 741 25 | in the state and all its organs, instilling into them. with 742 47 | regime, notwithstanding an outward show to the contrary, purely 743 74 | out to clear the tragic panorama on either side of its dark 744 10 | 10. A strange paradox this, of a war whose bitterness 745 43 | intellectual capacity of parliamentary deputies is for every people 746 10 | fair to reach the limits of paroxysm, and of the notable progress 747 68 | Government -- or perhaps even partially to themselves -- the responsibility 748 88 | reaches Us from so many parts of the world and give a 749 44 | stormy and disturbed by passion, by divergent opinions and 750 15 | and, as it were, a merely passive element in the social order, 751 52 | did not illumine the dark path along which the peoples 752 6 | towers tell with silent pathos the story of cities once 753 [Title]| our Saviour appeared" (St. Paul's Epistle to Titus, Chap. 754 49 | 49. A man penetrated with right ideas about the 755 | per 756 84 | looking for better and more perfect forms of democracy, the 757 78 | defend themselves from the periodic invasions of violence which, 758 44 | get lost: men who -- in periods of transition, generally 759 62 | international commissions permit one to conclude that an 760 62 | whose office it would also pertain to smother in its germinal 761 90 | Chile, Italy, Lithuania, Peru, Poland, Roumania, Slovakia, 762 57 | sane democracy be able to pervade the vast and thorny ground 763 3 | depression there sinks and pervades a great flood of light and 764 44 | standing but reflecting every phase of the people's life; men 765 53 | the representatives and pioneers of democracy be inspired 766 46 | others come to take their places in order to make politics 767 13 | support from those who hope to play a more efficient part in 768 24 | impulse from outside, an easy plaything in the hands of anyone who 769 90 | 90. It is a pleasure for us to express equal 770 92 | magnanimous charity over the poison of selfishness and enmity 771 87 | divided by selfishness, poisoned by hate, love will be restored, 772 90 | Italy, Lithuania, Peru, Poland, Roumania, Slovakia, Hungary 773 46 | places in order to make politics serve their ambition, and 774 37 | on a superior Authority possessing coercive power, they could 775 29 | inequalities of culture, possessions, social standing -- without, 776 12 | that had there been the possibility of censuring and correcting 777 85 | transcends that which all possible declarations of the rights 778 19 | government appears to many as a postulate of nature imposed by reason 779 88 | have reduced to extreme poverty and misery. ~ 780 84 | be sons of God. It is the powerful cry, which from the Manger 781 90 | for us to express equal praise and gratitude for the generosity 782 93 | rises to heaven the grateful prayer for them: Deign to reward, 783 14 | it is not forbidden to prefer temperate, popular forms 784 89 | personal Representative of the President of the Union. ~ 785 44 | especially in times when the pressing needs of the moment excite 786 77 | 77. But if justice presumed to judge and punish not 787 76 | could at most have offered a pretext, but never a justification. ~ 788 29 | to the existence and the prevalence of a true spirit of union 789 66 | surveillance and liable to preventive measures, then mankind, 790 46 | class, while the race after private interests makes them lose 791 34 | organization, in order to secure a privileged position above the others, 792 68 | in practice will in all probability be inevitable. ~ 793 77 | could not see in such a procedure a violation of the norms 794 85 | holy story of Christmas proclaims this inviolable dignity 795 58 | which brooks no delay, no procrastination, no hesitation, no subterfuge: 796 45 | find it themselves and can produce the heralds and implements 797 18 | harmony and good results produced by this between the citizens 798 44 | men not restricted to any profession or social standing but reflecting 799 46 | and be a quick road to profit for themselves, their caste 800 44 | divergent opinions and opposing programs -- feel themselves doubly 801 63 | idea of war as an apt and proportionate means of solving international 802 10 | efficacy of this or that proposal; judgment may well be suspended 803 66 | subject to the stigma of proscription, always under surveillance 804 43 | question of life and death of prosperity and decadence, of soundness 805 6 | cities once flourishing and prosperous, and where bells fallen 806 76 | order to commit real and proven crimes against the common 807 14 | various forms of government, provided they be per se capable of 808 30 | designs and dispositions of Providence have placed him. ~ 809 83 | history reflects clearly her providential mission. The struggles, 810 13 | 13. In such a psychological atmosphere, is it to be 811 62 | 62. The decisions already published by international commissions 812 77 | justice presumed to judge and punish not merely individuals but 813 [Title]| THE PUNISHMENT OF CRIMES ~ 814 64 | undertaken with a seriousness of purpose never before known, with 815 46 | their ambition, and be a quick road to profit for themselves, 816 5 | 5. But our gaze turns quickly from the Babe of the Crib 817 68 | welded together again, is quite understandable from a human 818 43 | which political currents radiate into every field of public 819 44 | untarnished consciences and radiates widely from them, to be 820 74 | has already come when a ray of light may shine out to 821 10 | bitterness bids fair to reach the limits of paroxysm, 822 88 | the cry of suffering which reaches Us from so many parts of 823 24 | instincts and impressions; ready to follow in turn, today 824 16 | various forms, and can be realized in monarchies as well as 825 58 | disputes and as a means towards realizing national aspirations. ~ 826 18 | decide which democracy is really healthy and well balanced, 827 14 | is scarcely necessary to recall that, according to the teaching 828 93 | this crusade of charity receive as an incentive and a token 829 61 | and even in the deepest recesses of its soul, like a picture 830 61 | intensity such that the recollection of so many horrors must 831 69 | collaboration in the work of reconstruction -- of being able, together 832 89 | place it is but just to record the immense work of assistance 833 82 | Church, the messenger of our Redeemer's word which is to continue 834 2 | again hails with these words redolent of peaceful serenity, the 835 44 | profession or social standing but reflecting every phase of the people' 836 83 | Divine order. Her history reflects clearly her providential 837 54 | future of the peace. No world reform, no peace guarantee can 838 55 | majesty of that order would regulate and inspire equally the 839 64 | and religious mentality reject modern war with its monstrous 840 11 | torpor. They have assumed, in relation to the state and those who 841 82 | will have to belong to the religion of Christ and to the Church, 842 64 | to make the Christian and religious mentality reject modern 843 61 | of so many horrors must remain stamped in its memory, and 844 83 | world as a shining beacon to remind it constantly of that Divine 845 44 | impressionability unduly, and render it more liable to be led 846 25 | with a vigor that is always renewing itself, the consciousness 847 71 | 71. We will not renounce Our confidence that the 848 9 | new era of far-reaching renovation, the complete reorganization 849 9 | renovation, the complete reorganization of the world. Thus while 850 67 | be allowed for a time as reparation for war damages. ~ 851 53 | purposes, of which We have repeatedly spoken, comprises also, 852 12 | avoid for the future the repetition of such a catastrophe, we 853 89 | Excellency the personal Representative of the President of the 854 35 | whether it be monarchical or republican, should, like any other 855 16 | monarchies as well as in republics, two questions come up for 856 43 | democracy normally set up resides in this popular assembly 857 47 | and revealed truth, will resolutely turn its back on such corruption 858 59 | with sufficient gravity and resolution. ~ 859 90 | the echo of which will not resound in vain through the world. ~ 860 84 | furthest confines of the earth resounds in the ears of men at a 861 38 | the government, with their respective rights. are so bound together 862 50 | subsist except in so far as it respects the foundation on which 863 9 | more deadly, the statesmen, responsible leaders of nations, meet 864 87 | poisoned by hate, love will be restored, and it will be allowed 865 87 | Saviour of the World, of the Restorer of human dignity in all 866 50 | which human personality rests, no less than the State 867 75 | wrapped the world, namely a return to the solidarity, too long 868 47 | principles of the natural law and revealed truth, will resolutely turn 869 70 | them that hope would be the reverse of far-seeing wisdom, it 870 93 | prayer for them: Deign to reward, O Lord, all those who do 871 25 | true people, an abundant rich life is diffused in the 872 68 | for a time to undergo the rigors of security measures until 873 92 | selfishness and enmity will ripen into even a larger harvest 874 74 | understanding have given rise in peoples that have fought 875 90 | with one another in noble rivalry of brotherly love and charity, 876 90 | Lithuania, Peru, Poland, Roumania, Slovakia, Hungary and Uruguay, 877 78 | nothing of all that they hold sacred and dear. ~ 878 73 | vain to expect that this sage judgment, dictated by the 879 93 | good to us for Your Name's sake with eternal life!~ 880 55 | use of its instruments of sanction. ~ 881 67 | where necessary, economic sanctions and even armed intervention, 882 57 | thus will the spirit of sane democracy be able to pervade 883 59 | all fail always, until the saner section of mankind has the 884 82 | continue His mission of saving men. For she teaches and 885 14 | 14. It is scarcely necessary to recall that, 886 71 | have all passed through the school of suffering, will be able 887 14 | government, provided they be per se capable of securing the 888 16 | and a democratic regime? Second, what characterization should 889 52 | hope to attain fully and securely if the light from the Cave 890 14 | they be per se capable of securing the good of the citizens" ( 891 59 | this direction have been seen in the past. They all failed. 892 26 | artificially brought together for selfish aims, the state itself, 893 44 | under the obligation to send circulating through the 894 52 | which they hope will be more serene. ~ 895 4 | that were bowed lift again serenely, for Christmas is the feast 896 2 | words redolent of peaceful serenity, the coming into our midst 897 26 | common interest remains seriously, and for a long time, injured 898 64 | to be undertaken with a seriousness of purpose never before 899 | several 900 | shall 901 8 | before the tabernacle it had shared the watches of the Divine 902 39 | dignity deriving from its sharing in the authority of God. ~ 903 74 | when a ray of light may shine out to clear the tragic 904 5 | our lips: "and the light shines in darkness, and the darkness 905 83 | rises before the world as a shining beacon to remind it constantly 906 55 | the structural defects and shortcomings of former systems, then 907 47 | notwithstanding an outward show to the contrary, purely 908 70 | which, at the same time, has shown it the road to new goals. ~ 909 75 | people think, when both sides realize that, all things 910 5 | around us, and the sorrowful sigh of John the Evangelist comes 911 46 | interests makes them lose sight of completely and jeopardize 912 47 | the contrary, purely and simply a form of absolutism. ~ 913 44 | national unity and concord in a sincere spirit of brotherhood. ~ 914 11 | important point -- beneath the sinister lightning of the war that 915 3 | affliction and depression there sinks and pervades a great flood 916 76 | who have exploited the war situation in order to commit real 917 90 | Peru, Poland, Roumania, Slovakia, Hungary and Uruguay, who 918 62 | it would also pertain to smother in its germinal state any 919 15 | clearly that the interest and solicitude of the Church looks not 920 18 | 18. From the solidity, harmony and good results 921 63 | and proportionate means of solving international conflicts 922 86 | the Great Feast of the Son of God Who appeared in human 923 75 | moment will come, perhaps sooner than the people think, when 924 9 | from the mournful groans of sorrow, from the very depths of 925 5 | world around us, and the sorrowful sigh of John the Evangelist 926 61 | deepest recesses of its soul, like a picture of a hell 927 9 | ever-increasing number of noble souls there comes the thought, 928 43 | prosperity and decadence, of soundness or perpetual unrest. ~ 929 36 | duties and rights, who is the source and end of his own social 930 56 | an equal right of its own sovereignty. ~ 931 90 | Government and people of Spain, and the Governments of 932 78 | a boiling lava torrent, spares nothing of all that they 933 31 | and far-seeing men, what a spectacle is that of a democratic 934 73 | should be -- while men's spirits are still burning white-hot -- 935 44 | it a group of select men, spiritually eminent and of strong character, 936 89 | of assistance achieved in spite of the extraordinary difficulties 937 7 | brilliance of Him Who is the Splendor and Light of the Father, 938 53 | which We have repeatedly spoken, comprises also, as a moral 939 80 | have imagined, those who spread such doctrine. ~ 940 6 | breaks again on battlefields spreading ever wider, on graveyards 941 [Title]| God our Saviour appeared" (St. Paul's Epistle to Titus, 942 67 | strengthened and made more stable by mutual guarantees and, 943 61 | many horrors must remain stamped in its memory, and even 944 38 | bound together that they stand or fall together. ~ 945 43 | question of the high moral standards, practical ability and intellectual 946 81 | unreality has been changed into stark reality: brutality, iniquity, 947 9 | this universal upheaval, a starting point for a new era of far-reaching 948 9 | weapons ever more deadly, the statesmen, responsible leaders of 949 26 | reduced to the minimum status of a mere machine, can impose 950 44 | convictions, straight and steady judgment, with a sense of 951 66 | always be subject to the stigma of proscription, always 952 12 | These multitudes, uneasy, stirred by the war to their innermost 953 86 | the feast in which heaven stoops down to earth with ineffable 954 44 | solid Christian convictions, straight and steady judgment, with 955 10 | 10. A strange paradox this, of a war whose 956 7 | the Father, deliberately straying from Christ, has descended 957 64 | who has conscientiously striven to make the Christian and 958 44 | spiritually eminent and of strong character, who shall look 959 9 | the will, ever cleared and stronger, to make of this world, 960 55 | succeeded in eliminating the structural defects and shortcomings 961 15 | so much to its external structure and organization -- which 962 66 | which it has been so long submerged, will be able to hail the 963 50 | 50. It cannot subsist except in so far as it respects 964 58 | procrastination, no hesitation, no subterfuge: It is the duty to do everything 965 55 | society of peoples which succeeded in eliminating the structural 966 64 | 64. No one could wish success to this common effort, to 967 56 | over the member states, in suchwise, however, that each of them 968 72 | had a greater share in the sufferings of the war and who have 969 59 | have not undertaken with sufficient gravity and resolution. ~ 970 45 | and moral temperament is sufficiently sound and fecund, find it 971 37 | deny all dependence on a superior Authority possessing coercive 972 66 | proscription, always under surveillance and liable to preventive 973 34 | 34. And the only survivors are, on the one hand, the 974 10 | proposal; judgment may well be suspended in their regard, but it 975 83 | of power, she has had to sustain in defense of the liberty 976 44 | interest, a justice equally sympathetic to all, and a bias towards 977 12 | touched, and call for a system of government more in keeping 978 55 | and shortcomings of former systems, then the majesty of that 979 8 | chapels, where before the tabernacle it had shared the watches 980 9 | leaders of nations, meet for talks, for conferences, to determine 981 12 | 12. Taught by bitter experience, they 982 82 | mission of saving men. For she teaches and defends supernatural 983 61 | through an ocean of blood and tears in a form perhaps never 984 6 | where a few tottering towers tell with silent pathos the story 985 45 | whose spiritual and moral temperament is sufficiently sound and 986 14 | not forbidden to prefer temperate, popular forms of government, 987 8 | is out in many majestic temples, in many modest chapels, 988 13 | to be wondered at if the tendency towards democracy is capturing 989 21 | bring together in a given territory a shapeless mass of individuals. ~ 990 79 | 79. Thank God, one may believe the 991 75 | 75. But one thin We know: that the moment 992 76 | 76. No one certainly thinks of disarming justice in 993 14 | good of the citizens" (Leo Thirteenth: Encyclical "Libertas," 994 57 | to pervade the vast and thorny ground of foreign relations. ~ 995 44 | the state, burning with a thousand fevers, the spiritual antidote 996 [Title]| THREE: NATURE AND CONDITIONS OF 997 79 | peoples was disdainfully thrust aside as unreal. ~ 998 44 | and heads especially in times when the pressing needs 999 [Title]| St. Paul's Epistle to Titus, Chap. 3, 4th verse). ~ 1000 93 | receive as an incentive and a token of gratitude our apostolic