Word: papally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressure from Rome, especially at this time, must be enormous but you have betrayed your democratic heritage in bowing to the papal lash...
Your lurid and sinister picture of papal politics belies the Christian aims of the Vatican. Franco, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Petain were not raised up by the Pope; he makes the best of a situation and tries to improve it. He works for justice, peace, charity, for religion and human welfare...
...matter what critics might say, it is scarcely deniable that the Church Apostolic, through the encyclicals and other papal pronouncements, has been fighting against totalitarianism more knowingly, devoutly and authoritatively, and for a longer time, than any other organized power...
...Church's great human hope is embodied in a series of papal encyclicals of which the two most fundamental are Rerum Novarum (May 15, 1891) and Quadragesima Anno (May 15, 1931). Not long after Eugenio Pacelli was born, Leo XIII looked beyond the Vatican and saw European civilization sick in body from social septicemia and sick at heart from the standing threat of war. In Rerum Novarum Leo put a fearless finger on the morbid core of Europe's social sickness. He attacked the misery of Europe's impoverished masses and those responsible for their condition...
...clause in the secret treaty of London. But whether or not the Pope is present, the influence of the Catholic Church's peace policy will be tremendous. Most Catholics and non-Catholics alike would agree that a peace that does not embody, at least roughly, the papal position on fundamental social issues will bring not social peace but a sword. For when traditional justice fails, retributive justice supervenes. Failure to grasp this fact means failure to understand the words that Dante read above the gates of Hell...