INSTRUCTION BY CHURCH

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27191, 7 November 1953, Page 7

INSTRUCTION BY CHURCH

Pope Emphasises Need For Obedience

ROME, November 5. Addressing a group of young Roihan Catholics who won prizes in a national contest on religious, culture, the Pope, according to a report of the speech released by the Vatican press office, said if ever young Roman Catholics doubted or argued when the church or Pope give them instruction or guidance they would no longer be worthy of their history and of its glories.

The Pope spid he wished to insist on “the absolute necessity that you tyoung Roman Catholics) draw close your ranks and form, as is your duty find your aspiration, a peaceful and daring army ready to obey every order of the church and every order of the Pope.” The Pope said the world was passing through one of its most perilous periods. • “This is not the first time we have announced this fact to mankind appalled by the contrast between the blaze of gigantic technical- progress and the black night of ruinous moral decadence visible not only in the ever more daring immodesty in behaviour, in the newspapers, in the theatre, and cinema, but also in the progressive negation of the fundamental truths on which the Divine Commandments and Christum conduct of life are based.”