REVERENCE FOR DIVINE PRECEPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 18, 22 January 1940, Page 6

REVERENCE FOR DIVINE PRECEPTS

In his reply to President Roosevelt, the Pope sets in clear relief the spiritual issues which arise in the war and must guide the making of peace. "Only those whose political power is combined," he states, "with a clear understanding of the voice of humanity and a sincere reverence for the divine precepts of life found in the Gospel of Christ will be able to discern the path which must be followed." The material issues of the war cannot he ignored. They involve the restoration of territory as

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