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PERTH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1944.
Pope Deplores Vast
Divisions and Dispersal of
Religious Confessions
Answers Russian Patriarch and Anglican Archbishop on Papal Claims .
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Warning Against Inequitable Peace Based on Force
War Cannot Be Laid to the Account of Peoples . . . The complete English text of the Holy Father's address to the Sacred College of Cardinals on his feast day reached Australia recently.
body of truth and grace contained in the redemptive mission of Christ. "And while she finds in the stimulating and comforting consciousness of this double possession her force to conquer all the darkness of error and all moral deviations, she exerts her activity to the advantage not only of Christendom but of the entire world,
It is of vital interest to Australian Catholics because, among other things, it deals at length with two questions which have received considerable press publicity here. They are: of The challenge by the late Russian inspiring sentiments of justice and in those great Patriarch Sergius (seconded by the genuine fraternal charity caland blessings Anglican Archbishop of York) to the divergencies in which amities, abundant harvests and poor Pope's title, "Vicar of Christ." side The repeated pleas of the Holy gleanings, often are to be found Father for a peace based on justice by side. Deplored. Divisions rather than one inspired by instincts "But how much more potent and of vengeance and anger. influence of After reviewing at length the suffer- efficacious would be the Christian life ings of peoples caused by the war and Christian thought and of the future his efforts to relieve "the indigence on the moral substructure plans for peace and social reconstruc_which surrounds us on every side and not this vast divicalls for help," the Holy Father con- tion, if there were of religious confession and dispersal tinued: of time have "But above such external cares and sions, that in the course from Mother those of the particular duties imposed detached themselves by the contingencies of time and place, Chureh. "Who to -day can fail to recognise there stands, Venerable Brethren, Our what a genusupreme and paramount duty, from what substance of faith,to anti-religious whose full and conscientious fulfilment ine power of resistance groups as the many in lost is exno influence no human power can detach Us, ternal crisis distract Us; it is the un- result of that separation? Mysterious Bond. questioning obedience to the commandment of Our Lord: 'Feed My lambs; "Between Christ and Peter there 15-17). XXI., feed My sheep." (John, reigns, from the day of the promise "To -day, in fact, more than ever be- near Cesare Philippi and that of the fore, is to be seen by any clear-sighted fulfilment by the Sea of Tiberias, a mysand honest observer, the sadly defici- terious but eminently real bond which ent balance -sheet, which cleavages draws its roots from the eternal counThe Eternal from the Church in the course of cen- sels of the Almighty. turies have effected for Christendom. Father, who revealed to Simon Bar Jona the mystery of the Divine Son On the Solid Rock. eternity "Mother Church, Catholic, Roman, ship of Christ, had from all of Bethshe who has remained faithful to the predestined the Fisherman office. constitution received from her Divine saida for his singular "And Christ, Himself, only fulfilled Founder, and who even to -day stands when, promising Father of His He will which the on firmly on the solid rock he used willed to found her, possesses in the and conferring the primacy, to fix forever Primacy of Peter and of his legitimate expressions which were privileged Peter's of uniqueness the successors, the assurance, guaranteed by Divine promises, of maintaining and position. Tradition Ignored. transmitting whole and inviolate, "Those, therefore, who declare that through centuries and tens of centurVicar of Christ on earth no is whole there the time, ies, even to the end of -
because Christ Himself, promised to remain with His Church as its Head and Lord to the end of time, -besides depriving the whole episcopal office of its foundation, are ignoring and misinterpreting the profound meaning of Papal primacy, which is not the negation but the fulfilment of that promise. "For if it be true that Christ, in the fulness of His Divine Power, disposes of the most varied forms of enlightenment and sanctification, in which He is really with those who confess Him, it is no less certain that He wished to entrust to Peter and to his successors the guidance and government of the Universal Church and the treasures of truth and grace of His work of redemption. "The words of Christ to Peter leave no doubt as to their meaning: that was recognised by 'West and East in times
that cannot be questioned, and with
marvellous harmony. "To try to create an opposition between Christ, as Head of the Church, and His Vicar; to see in the affirmation of one the negation of the other, means distorting the clearest and most luminous pages of the Gospel. "It means closing one's eyes to the most ancient and venerable testimonies of tradition, and depriving Christendom of that precious heritage, the correct knowledge and appreciation of which can instil into the separated-, brethren the longing to return to their Father's house, and the efficacious will to come back to it. "One thing that has contributed significantly towards making men open their hearts to the hope of this fair and more peaceful morrow is the fact that (Continued on Back Cover.)
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