No. 3210.
PERTH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1965.
(Registered at the G.P.O.. Perth for transmission by post as a Newspaper.)
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IT IS PEACE WHICH MUST GUIDE THE DESTINIES OF PEOPLES AND OF ALL MANKIND - - TODAY AS NEVER BEFORE THERE IS NEED FOR AN APPEAL TO THE MORAL CONSCIENCE OF MAN - - - THE DANGER COMES, NOT FROM PROGRESS, NOR FROM SCIENCE, BUT FROM MAN H IMSELF, WIELDING EVER MORE POWERFUL ARMS WHICH COULD BE EMPLOYED EQUALLY WELL FOR DESTRUCTION OR FOR THE LOFTIEST CONQUESTS.
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HORTLY after his return to Rome from New York where he made an unprecedented peace appeal to more than piti two thousand diplomats and statesmen, Pope Paul told the Ecumenical Council that his pilgrimage to the United Nations had increased the responsibility of the Catholic Church to the cause of world peace.
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Although very tired from his 13i-hour visit, the Pope. drive immediately to St. Peter's Basilica to report to the Council Fathers who were debating! the Church's relationship with the modern world. HE SAID: "It is certain- ' fall. It must be per- i projects of union and ly not our task to enter fected and made equal I useful collaboration. the fields of politics and to the needs which ' As long as man reeconomics where civil world history N.vi11 pre- mained the w e a k, peace is built, but we sent." changeable, and even can and must help in its wicked being that he construction through often showed himself to moral support and be, defensive arms working charity— also would unfortunately be material charity. Pope Paul told the necessary, he said. High point of the Pon- world leaders that the He noted that the tiff's address to the • roads to peace were al_ United Nations was United Nations General ready well marked out, studying ways of guarAssembly was when he pnd the first was that anteeing the security of called on all mankind to of disarmament. international life withswear an oath against out recourse to arms. "If you wish to be . war. brothers, let the arms "This noble aim must "Not one against the fall from your hands. be obtained," Pope Paul said. other, never again, One cannot love while "Gratitude would be ! holding offensive weanever more," he said. .• expressed by all peopons, the Pope pleaded. "It was principally ples, relieved then from for this purpose that the He said that those the crushing expenses organisation of the terrible armaments de- of armaments and freed United Nations arose— mand enormous expen- from the nightmare of against war, in favour ditures and obstructed ever-imminent War." of peace."
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Message For All Mankind Pope Paul told tilt assembly that the occa sion was a simple and at the same time a great moment. His Sion, he said, wasmis to bear a message for all mankind. He said he was convinced that the United Nations represen ted the Obligatory part of modern civilisation and of World peace. "We feel we are making our own the voice of the dead and of the living — of the dead who f ell in the wars of the past,terrible of the living who those Wars survived bearing in their hearts a of those condemnation to renew who would try of those wars and also living who rise uP fresh and confident, the Youth of the present generation, who legitiratelY dream of a bet r human race. The peoples of the r th turn to the United 1\1 _ ations as uf concord the last hopand peace. ,The pilgrim e assembly: Pope told "The ediee which you have c onstrUcted must never
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