APPEAL BY POPE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1939, Page 5

APPEAL BY POPE

PEACE JUSTICE & CHARITY PACTS THAT LOSE SECURITY. ’ MUTUAL - UNDERSTANDING LACKING. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) VATICAN CITY, April 9. “There can be no peace while pacts solemnly sanctioned have lost that security and value constituting the foundation of reciprocal trust and without which moral and material disarmament, so highly desired, becomes daily less attainable'” declared the Pope in an Easter homily. He added that tranquility and order were impossible when sons of the same country were divided by ardent political and other differences and so many lacked work sufficient for sustenance. This made them an easy prey to subversive doctrines. R<ml peace was impossible while there was lacking among nations mutual understanding. which alone encouraged peonle to follow the lighted path of civilised progress. The world was agitated by an atmosphere of anxiety, which was creating a fear of worse days. Religion was the remedy for the world’s ills. While there could not b\ peace without order there could not be order without justice. This demanded obedience to legitimate authority and respect of human liberty and dignity He insisted that wealth should be equitably distributed. Justice required ‘hat the churchs’ saving work should not bo obstructed, because the church ’’omainod mistress of truth and the spring of spiritual life. The Pope concluded with an appeal ■o’ individuals, peoples and governments for noace. justice and charity.