If You Believe In Peace It Is

Never Give Advice In A Crowd.

For You Deal Here Above All With Human Life, And Human Life Is Sacred; No One May Dare Make An Attempt Upon It. Respect For Life, Even With Regard To The Great Problem Of The Birth Rate, Must Find Here In Your Assembly Its Highest Affirmation And Its Most Rational Defense. Your Task Is To Ensure That There Is Enough Bread On The Tables Of Mankind, And Not To Encourage An Artificial Control Of Births, Which Would Be Irrational, In Order To Diminish The Number Of Guests At The Banquet Of Life.

We Consider Christmas As The Encounter, The Great Encounter, The Historical Encounter, The Decisive Encounter, Between God And Mankind. He Who Has Faith Knows This Truly; Let Him Rejoice.

The Important Role Of Union Organizations Must Be Admitted: Their Object Is The Representation Of The Various Categories Of Workers, Their Lawful Collaboration In The Economic Advance Of Society, And The Development Of The Sense Of Their Responsibility For The Realization Of The Common Good.

The World Calls For And Expects From Us Simplicity Of Life, The Spirit Of Prayer, Charity Towards All, Especially Towards The Lowly And The Poor, Obedience And Humility... Without This Mark Of Holiness, Our Word Will Have Difficulty In Touching The Heart Of Modern Man. It Risks Being Vain And Sterile.