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PERTH, THURSDAY, JULY SI, 1911.
SIXTY-EIGHTH YEAR.
Pius XII Commemorates the Social Encyclical We reprint here for the first time the full text of the Holy Father' message broadcast on Pante st Sunday in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Pope Leo XILI's celebrated Encyclical, "Rerum Novarum."
you hear the voice of your common Father to call you together, so to speak, in a world-wide Catholic meeting so that you may experience and enjoy in the bond of peace that "one heart" and "one soul" (Acts 4, 32) which held together, under the impulse of the Holy Spirit, the faithful of Jerusalem on Pentecost Day. As the circumstances created by the war make direct contact between the Senreme Pastor ,and his flock in many cases difficult, We greet with all the
higher moderating social authority has the important duty of forestalling the dislocations of economic balance arising from plurality and divergence of clashing interests, individual and collective. It is, on the other hand, the indisThe Sovereign Pontiff's broadputable competence of the Church, on cast treats of "some further that side of the social order where it directive moral principles on meets and enters into contact with the three fundamental values of somoral order, to decide whether the cial and economic life," namely, bases of a given social system are in the use of material goods, labour accord with the unchangeable order more gratitude this most expedite which God. Our Creator and Redeemand the family. bridge which the inventive genius of er, has shown us through the natural our age throws across the ether in a law and revelation, that twofold maniflash to unite across mountains, seas festation to which Leo XIII appeals THE feast of Pentecost, that glori- and continents every corner of the in his Encyclical, and with reason: For ous birthday of the Church of earth. the dictates of the natural and the Christ, said his Holiness, is to And thus what for many is a weapon truths of revelation spring law forth in a Our mind, dear children of the whole of war becomes for Us a heaven-sent different manner like two streams of world, a welcome and auspicious occa- means of patient, peaceful apostolate water that do not flow against one ansion, and one full of high import, on which realises and gives new signific- other, but together from the same Divwhich to address to you, in the midst ance to the words of Holy Scripture: ine Source. of the difficulties and strife of the pre"Their sound hath gone forth unto the Church Must Form Consciences. sent hour, a message of love, encour- earth; and their words unto the ends And the Church, guardian of the agement and comfort, We speak to of the world." (Psalms 18, 5; Romans supernatural, you at a moment when every energy 10. 181. Thus doe, it seem as if were nature and Christian order in which grace converge, must form and force, physical and intellectual, of renewed the miracle of Pentecost, the consciences even of those who are an ever-increasing section of mankind when the different peoples who had called upon to find solutions for the is being strained to a degree and inten- assembled in Jerusalem from regions problems and the duties imposed by sity never before known beneath the speaking various languages heard the social life. iron, inexorable law of war, and when voices of Peter and the Apostles in From the form given to society, from other radio aerials are going their own tongue. With genuine de- whether conforming or not to the words full of passion, bitterness, divilight We to -day make use of so won Divine Law, and emerges the sion and strife. derful an instrument in order to call good or ill ofdepends But the aerials of the Vatican hill, of to the attention of the Catholic world the decision souls; depends, that is, whether men, all called ground dedicated to be the uncontami- a memory worthy of being written in to be revived by the grace of Christ, nated source of the Good Tidings and letters of gold on the calendar of the do actually, in the detailed course of of their beneficent diffusion throughout Church: the fiftieth anniversary of the life, breathe the healthy, vivifythe world, from the place of martyr- publication on May 15, 1891, of the their ing atmosphere of truth and moral dom and the tomb of the first Peter, epoch-making social Encyclical of Leo virtue or the disease-laden and often can transmit only words animated XIII, the "Rerum Novarum." fatal air of error and corruption. with the .consoling spirit of that preachRight and Duty of the Church, Before such a thought and such an w.valeliah on the first Pentecost It was in the profound conviction how could the Church, Day, it came from the lips of St. that the Church has not only the right anticipation Mother that she is, solicitous for Peter, erusalem resounded and was but even the duty to make an authori- loving the welfare of her children, remain an stirred. It is a spirit of burning, apos- tative pronouncement on social ques- indifferent onlooker in their danger; tolic love; a spirit which is conscious tions that Leo XIII, addressed his remain silent or feign not to see or of no more vivid desire, or holier joy, message to the world. He had no in- take cognisance of social conditions than that of bringing all, friends and tention of laying down guiding prin- which. whether one wills it or not, enemies, to the Feet of the Crucified ciples of the purely practical, we might make difficult or practically impossible One of Calvary, to the Tomb of the say technical, side of the social struc- a Christian life in conformity with the glorified Son of God and Redeemer of ture; for he was well aware of the fact precepts of the Divine Law given? the human race, 'to convince all that -as Our immediate predecessor of Gratitude to Pope Leo XIII. only in Him and in the truth taught saintly memory, Pius XI, pointed out If, beloved children, you ask Us toby Him and in the love which He, do- ten years ago in his commemorative after fifty years from the date of ing good to all and healing all, taught Encyclical, "Quadragesimo Anno"- day, publication of the Encyclicals, to what by His example, even to sacrificing that the Church does not claim such a extent the efficacy of his message corHimself for the life of the world, can mission. In the general framework of to its noble intentions, to its there be found true salvation and last- labour to stimulate the sane and re responds thought so full of truth, to the beneing happiness for individuals and for sponsible development of all the ener- ficent directions understood and sugpeoples. gies, physical and spiritual, of indivi- gested by its wise author, We feel that "One Heart" and "One Soul." duals and their free organisation, there must answer thus: It is precisely In this hour pregnant with events opens up a wide field of action where We render to Almighty God from the that are known only to the Divine the public authority comes in with its to bottom of Our heart Our humble Counsels which rule the story of na- integrating and co-ordinating activity, thanks for the gift tions and watch over the Church, it is exercised first through the local and ago He bestowed onwhich fifty years for Us, beloved children, a source of professional corporations and finally in that Encyclical of His the Church in sincere joy and gratification in letting the activity of the State itself, whose and to praise Him for Vicar on Eartn, the life-giving
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breath of the Spirit, which through it in ever-growing measure from that time on has blown on all mankind, that We on this feast of Pentecost have
decided to address you. Our predecessor, Pius XI, has already exalted, in the first part of his commemorative Encyclical, the splendid crop of good to which the "Rerum Novarum," like a fertile sowing, had given rise. From it sprang forth a Catholic social teaching which gave to the children of the Church, priests and laymen, an orientation and method for social reconstruction which was overflowing with good effects. For through it there arose in the Catholic field numerous and diverse beneficent institutions that were flourishing centres of reciprocal help for themselves and others, What an amount of well-being, material and natural profit has come to the workers and their families from the Catholic unions! How efficacious and suited to the need has been the help afforded by the syndicates and associations in favour of the agricultural and middle class. to relieve their wants, defend them from injustice, and in this way, by soothing passion, to save social peace from disorder! Expanding Influence of Encyclical. Nor was this the whole benefit of the Encyclical "Rerum Novarum." Coming down to the people and greeting them with esteem and love, it went deep into the hearts and esteem of the working class and inspired it with a sense of Christian sentiment and civil dignity. Indwd, its powerful influence came with the passage of the years to expand and spread to such an extent that its norms became almost the common property of all men. And while the State in the nineteenth century, through excessive exaltation of liberty, considered as its exclusive scope the safeguarding of liberty by the law, Leo XIII admonished it that it had also the duty to interest itself in socia.welfare, taking care of the entire people and of all its members, especially the weak and the dispossessed, through a generous social programme and the creation of a labour (Continued on Page 5.)
If I am asked how Christianity is to be brought to the masses.
I reply, "Show them how they can be saved by it in this world, then perhaps they will believe you about the next; but until you do, they never will." .
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