POPE DEMANDS GOVERNMENTS HELP THE POOR AND WORKERS; NOT BUILD WEAPONS OF WAR
“A new scourge threatens…. It strikes most heavily at those who are the most tender and are Our most dearly beloved; upon the children, the proletariat, the artisans and the ‘have-nots.’ We are speaking of the grave financial crisis which weighs down the peoples and is accelerating in every land the frightful increase of Unemployment...”
"There is every reason to fear that the plague of Unemployment, which We have already mentioned, will worsen, to such an extent that poverty may push—though God forbid it!—many a misery-stricken household to exasperation…. As an effect of rivalry between peoples there is an insensate competition in armaments which, in its turn, becomes the cause of enormous expenditure, diverting large sums of money from the public welfare; and this makes the present crisis more acute…. We exhort you all, Venerable Brethren, to busy yourselves with the work of enlightening public opinion in this matter, by all the means at your disposal, including both pulpit and press, so that the hearts of men may be turned towards the dictates of right reason, and, still more, to the laws of Christ."
--- His Holiness Pius XI, October 2, 1931, Speaking from the Throne of Saint Peter
4 comments:
Communist.
I think it's a sin to call the Pope a communist.
Even when he is a Communist?
If you ever take the time to read the papal encyclical "Laborem Exercens," you'll no doubt conclude that he was a communist, too. Pope John Paul II was just as and probably even more pro-labor than Pius XI. BTW, are you Catholic or an anti-Catholic?
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