THE CHURCH AND THE NATIONS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume L, Issue 1, 4 January 1923, Page 23

THE CHURCH AND THE NATIONS

If, tn-day we ask wherein lies the proof of the Church's special capacity for the promotion of a world-peace, what is the answer? The proof of the Church’s capacity lies in the fact that she is a great moral power. Peace cannot come in our times* if individual men and peoples are not first morally renovated. No effectual and lasting peace can spring where hatred and the desire' for annihilation pre-vail.-'Every thing that produces hatred and popular egotism provides fuel for the flames of war. The Catholic Church stands before us as the only religious society which grapples with the , inward sentiments of the soul, which can effect tho moral conversion of the soul, which reforms men of violence, undermines • force, and creates a moral current in which right' and justice, humanity, charity,; ; ?aild honesty thrive iii the "relations between nations. —Cardinal .Faiilhaher, Munich. ■ r -- - a . •’ . "" They morality of the coming generation' depends to a, far greater extgnt on the mothers of '.ifl-day than on all the loud-voiced *leglaitttdi'S- and clamor oils ; reformers. ‘