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Excerpt from The Australasian Catholic Record, 1938, Vol. 15: For Clergy and Religious
No less dangerous are the ills which threaten religious and civil society in our own times. Because the supreme and eternal authority of God, Who lays on us His commands and His prohibitions, has been despised and rejected by so many, it has come about that consciousness of Christian duty has grown weaker, that in many souls the faith has sickened or perished, and that finally the very foundations of human society have fallen in ruin. Wherefore on the one hand we may see social classes waging terrible war upon each other, those of greater re sources ranged against those who have to work for their own and their families' bread. In some places, as we all know, things have gone so far that the right of private possession has been annihilated, and all goods brought into common ownership. On the other hand, too, there are some who profess to advance the power of the State to the highest degree of honour, who declare that the civil order and authority must be reinforced by all possible means, and pretend that thus they may utterly repel the execrable theories of the Communists; but they despise the light of the Gospel's wisdom, and seek to renew pagan errors and a pagan way of life. To these must be added that monstrous and bane ful sect of men who deny and hate God, boasting themselves the enemies of Eternal Majesty; they are to be found everywhere; they attack the faith of all creeds and uproot it from men's minds; they trample human and divine law under foot and while they mock the hope of happiness in heaven, and incite men to pursue a false happiness in this present life, even by unlawful means, they boldly drive them, by stirring up riots, bloody rebellions and the confiagration of civil war, to annihilation of the social order.
None the less, Venerable Brethren, although so many and such great disasters threaten us, and we may well fear the advent of worse in the future, we must not despair nor discard hope and faith which relies only on God. He indeed, Who has made peoples and nations healable (cf. Wisdom, i. Will surely not desert those whom He has redeem ed by His precious Blood; He will not desert His Church. But as We said at the beginning, let us make use of the most Blessed Virgin as our most acceptable intercessor and patroness, since, to use St. Bern ard's words, such is His (god's) Will, Who desired us to have all things through Mary (sermon on the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary).
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