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Holy
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"An act inglorious from the military abominable -in the point of view eyes of God and mankind .
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of Rome
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morally indefensible by all spiritual and moral values"
Refugees Exhorted to Suffer in the Spirit of the Cross
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Translation of the Address of His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, on the Fifth Anniversary of His Coronation, Sunday, March to those whom the War had driven to Rome to seek Refuge. effort left untried by Us, no means neglected to save the people from the horrors of deportation and exile, and, domestic happiness, forced as you are when dire reality came to disappoint by the present calamities to wander Our most legitimate hopes, We exerted about lost, without a home, separated all Our powers to relieve at least the perhaps from the members of your own rigours of sufferings. Fully conscious, families, even without word or tidings as We were, of the insufficiency of all that we could do, We did not cease to of those most closely linked to you by ties of love and blood, uneasy about pray for help like the father who in their fate, as they are about yours; his sorrow for his unfortunate -children you who know by faith of a Heavenly appeals to all near and far in whose Father who has promised to work all breast beats a generous heart. "Devoted and charitable souls there things, even the most calamitous and Our hard to bear, unto good for those who were who replied to Our call. Innames gratitude We keep their deep love Him. to "You have come to -day, in obedience within Our heart and offer them the in to your family impulse, to receive from God that He may write them But Recompense. Everlasting of Book the Vicar of Christ in a word of blessing batand comfort. You are gathered around in this hour of trial for the much tered city of Rome, torn as it is in the Us, not to learn of that internal anby saddened citizens, of its guish which makes Us one with you living flesh in this city in your sorrow-for of that you are al- the disabled and wounded, inready aware-but to hear from Our whose sufferings have increased andhave lips and to read in Our face the assur- tensified, and whose daily needsall who on call We urgent, more become ance that the weight of your suffering with is all Ours and that it penetrates into have the means to help, whether material gifts or with the active assistthe inmost recesses of Our heart. their deny to not labour, their of "Yes, dear sons and daughters, the ance urgent sorrow which unites Us to you is a assistance and their aid to so loving sorrow which makes you doubly and charitable a cause. in alcities the of "If destruction dear to Us, all the most beloved as most all the Continents, stricken by you are the more afflicted, and be asno laws or sured that there is not one of your suf- aerial warfare that knowstestimony of ferings, not one of your anxieties, not limits, is itself a terrible of warfare, means of 'such cruelty the one of your spiritual and bodily afflicthat any one could tions which does not inflict on Our soul how can we believe this dear city a wound more painful than any inflict- ever dare to desecrate peoples, and upon all to belongs ed upon Us by Our own personal suf- which which the Christian of the civilised fering. with anxiety. To "From that day when We had to see world is now gazing a battlefield would be unanswered the appeals which We turn Rome into from the military made to avert this war, of which we an act inglorious in the eyes of saw the terrible results and consequ- viewpoint, abominable fatherhood has God and mankind, and morally indefenences, our spiritual moral values. and spiritual all by sible spurred Us on to devote Ourself entire"We must, therefore, appeal once ly to the alleviation of those needs and vision and sufferings whose uncounted multitude again to the clear-sightedmen in both responsible We contemplate with anxious solici- wisdom of the We feet sure that tude. We gave to the utmost of our belligerent camps. wish to have their names material means, food and clothing to they will not a deed no motive could those who had none and whose needs associated with before history, and that were extreme, and We spared nothing ever justify rather turn their thoughts, to reunite those whom battles and in- they will their labours towards vasions had separated. There was no their intentions,
"You have come before Us, dear sons and daughters, in the midst of a desolation which has deprived you of your
"Do you too carry your cross in penance and expiation for your own sins and those of others, which have brought down the just chastisements of
God."-Pius
the securing of a peace which will free mankind from all internal and external violence so that their name may remain in benediction, and not as a curse through the centuries on the face of
the earth. "Dear people of Rome, in the turmoil of so many misfortunes and disasters, We feel and admit in the bitterness of Our heart how inadequate and insufficient are all human means in face Of this limitless excess of unspeakable There are disasters in the misery. face of which even the most generous efforts of men cannot sufdevoted and fice.
"Lift up, therefore, your eyes to Heaven, dear sons and daughters, to Him who will give you the power to bear your cross with lively faith and Christian fortitude, to Jesus Christ Ouk Lord and Saviour, to whom we would lead you, He Himself invites you and says, 'Come to me all ye who labour and are burdened, and I will refresh you.' He willed to experience the miseries of this earthly life, its evils and afflictions, the most frightful tortures and torments that come from men. Cross. He goes before you with His Follow Him. He carries His Cross, He (Continued on Back Cover./