Word: christs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pope Pius XI is Vicar of Christ who, his Church claims, received from God the absolute right over all created things, civil affairs, Christians and even non-Christians. So the Vicar can say with equanimity, with no doubt, in an encyclical letter sent last week to all patriarchs, primates, archbishops and bishops for the instruction of their flocks...
Further it appeared that all Rabbi Wise had been driving at was the expression of his enthusiasm for a book Jesus of Nazareth, written at Jerusalem and in Hebrew by a Dr. Joseph Klaussner, who set forth the Nazarene simply as a great Jew and not as the Christ...
...heads of States should therefore not refuse to testify publicly their reverence for and obedience to the Kingdom of Christ if they wish their power to remain unimpaired, and their countries to prosper and progress. If princes and legitimately elected magistrates, in fact, were convinced that they command not in their own right but by the mandate of the Divine King it is easy to understand what sacred use they would make of their authority...
...Their subjects, on the other hand, will not attempt to escape their commands when they recognize in them the image and authority of Christ, God and man. Besides, with the growth of the Kingdom of Christ men become more aware of the brotherhood which unites them and this awareness decreases the danger of conflicts...
...truth, if the pilgrims can say that they were able freely and safely to circulate in the streets of this centre of Catholicism, they cannot but have noticed that the same cannot be said of the Vicar of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Father of all the Faithful, whom they were unable to approach and see except by crossing the threshold which He himself, so long as present conditions continue, neither can nor must cross...