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PERTH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1944.
Threat of thP Sword
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SEVENTY-FIRST YLAR.
May Be Necessary to Ensure Post -War Justice
Pope Urges Strenuous Defence Against Atheism and Anti -Christian Tendencies
Will Other Fatal Errors Spring Up? LphoLls Right to Private Property. To sad and fatal errors of the past :-Launchly the Pope upheld the right will there, perhaps, succeed others no to private property :when he said: "Christian conscience cannot admit as less deplorable? Will the world oscillist a social order which either oenies late uncertainly between one extreme Or will the pendulum and. the other? in principle or renders impossible ',1fr negatory in practice the natural right come to rest, thanks to the work of sage rulers, at directives and solutions to property, whether over consumptive which du not go counter to God's law, goods or the means of production," . . . Immediately, however, the Holy and do not offend the human and, Father admonished that neither could above all, the Christian conscience? there be accepted a system recognising On the answer to these questions dethe right to property according to false pends the future of Christian civilisathe on based concept. "Capitalism" tion in Europe and in the world. concept that arrogates to itself an unThus it is that Christian civilisation, limited right over property without without suppressing or weakening tote subordination to the common good, is healthy elements in the most varied nato be condemned, he declared. Work- tional cultures, brings them into harThe "threat of the sword" may appear inevitable even after the concluers must not be put in a position where mony on essentials by creating in this sion of the peace in order to safeguard the observance of just obligations and it is impossible for them to acquire wise that broad basis of union of ideas adin a radio XII conflicts, declared Pope Pius at new to prevent attempts private property of their own. Small and moral standards which constitutes and medium holdings were staunchly the most firm 1, the fifth anniversary world on September dress broadcast throughout the defended ,and His Holiness affirmed of social justice, and fraternal charity of the present World War. The Holy Father had preceded this observation that these should he "guaranteed and among all the members of the great promoted." (says NCWC) by asserting that the sword sometimes must open the way to human family. The Holy Father advocated co-operaClarity of vision, devotion, courage, peace and that the shadov, of the sword "may be cast all over the transition tive unions and the possibility of "tem- inventive genius, and a sense of broham the cessation of hostilities to the formal conclusion of peace." pering the labour contract with.a con therly love in all upright and honest Technical pro- men will determine the measure and t: act of co -ownership." "But,' the Supreme Pontiff added, --healthier, juridically better organ- gress is not opposed to such a scheme, the extent to which Christian thought "the soul of peace worthy of its name, ised, more in harmony with the ex- it was affirmed, and in any case tech- will succeed in maintaining and supigencies of human nature-such is the nical progress should not prevail over its vivifying spirit, can be one only: porting the gigantic work of restoration longing of its tortured people." A justice which, with an impartial the general good. in social, economic and international measure gives to each what is due to Noting that to -day on the one hand life through a plan that does not conPrivate Property's Vital Function him and exacts from each what he Christian civilisation, is being systemflict with the religious and the moral Must be Recognised. owes: a justice which does not give all atically menaced, and on the other the content of Christian civilisation. of policy "The social and economical things to all, but to all gives love and heritage of that civilisation is ever the future," continued Pope Pius, "the This invitation which we trust will does nobody wrong: a justice which is Pope more diffused among peoples, controlling power of the State, of local find a sympathetic welcome from the the child of truth and the mother of Pius appealed to all not to sacrifice bodies, of professional institutions, can- millions of souls throughout the earth, healthy freedom and sure greatness." this heritage for transitory advantage. not permanently secure their end, looks chiefly to achieve a loyal and "Fidelity to the heritage of Christian which is the genuine productivity of effective collaboration in all those fields Address Packed With Remarkable civilisation, and its strenuous defence social life and the normal returns on in which the very idea of Christianity Counsels. tennational economy, except by respecting demands the creation of a more exact While much preoccupied with an in- against atheism andtheanti-Christian keystone which and safeguarding the vital function of juridical order. is never This is especially ternational organisation to preserve a dencies, adbe sacrificed for any transitory private property in his (the worker's) true of that group of formidable projust peace after the war, His Holiness can combinaany shifting or for vantage blems which refer to the setting up of personal and social values." packed remarkable groups of counsels tion," he pointed out. The vast destruction of war must be an economic and social order more in into a comparatively brief address. said His Holiness, and keeping with the eternal law of God These included the social order, the Raising Proletariat is Forward Step, recognised, there must be co-operation with peo- and the dignity of man. right to private property, co-operative Referring vigorously to the "formidIf it be true that the Church has alendeavour, small and medium owner- able problems" of setting up an econo- ples discouraged by the physical and ways recognised the natural right to ship, capital and labour relations, and mic and social order "more in keeping moral disaster they have encountered the danger of resorting to violence. All with the eternal law of God and with in war. In appealing for the solidar- property and of hereditary transmisthese were closely connected with the the dignity of man," the Holy Father ity of the Italian people, the Pontiff sion of one's own goods, it is not less post-war period in his hope that a asserted: "Christian thought insists, as acknowledged the relief given by the certain that this private property is in a special manner the natural fruit of proper set-up of the internal economy a substantial element, on the raising Allied Powers. Striking excerpts from the Holy labour, the product of an intense acof individual nations would be conof the proletariat: the achievement of tivity on the part of a man who acfollow: address Father's ducive to a lasting peace. this in a resolute and generous manTo -day, at the close of the fifth year quires it through his energetic will to At the outset of his address the Holy ner appears to every true follower of Father noted that many well-meaning Christ not only as a step forward along of the war, as it turns back to review insure and improve by his own forces the way of tears and blood covered his own living conditions and those of people, shocked by the ruin that the the path of earthly progress, but also painfully during these gloomy five his family, to create for himself and war has produced, are seeking, even in as the fulfilment of a moral obligation." years of its history, mankind gasps in those dear to him a field in which they the camps of their adversaries, comGrave warning was given by His horror before the abyss of misery into may rightly enjoy not only economic panions in "the great enterprise of reenhad which the spirit of violence and dom- freedom but political, cultural and rewho even those constructing a world which has been Holiness that shaken to its foundations and torn in countered bitter years of want and re- ination of force have plunged it. But, ligious freedom as well. But neither can the Christian constriction would be disappointed if they refusing to be overwhelmed by the its innermost framework." The hands of the clock of history, lodged their hopes in the complete re- memory of the past, it is now anxious- science accept those systems which reterrible of this cognise the right of private property causes the a "millennium ly seeking world and of the pointing birth are now His Holiness added, The danger, spiritual and material catastrophe fully according to a completely false concept to an hour both grave and decisive for of universal happiness." preof it and which are therefore opposed efficacious resolved to take every "An old world lies in he said, was of an unjustified impatiall mankind. fragments. To see arise as quickly as ence that might put all its hopes "in caution against the repetition in other to a true and healthy social order. (Continued on Page 4.) forms of this tremendous tragedy. possible from those ruins a new world upheavals and violence."
Workers Warned Against Unjustified Impatience
Church Cannot Accept Either Denial or Claim to Absolute Use of Property
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