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Show PIUS XII ON DICTATORS At Netc York in 1936 "In these difficult times, so disturbed by political and social passions, pas-sions, the voice of the pope is not only the authoritative word of the head of the Catholic church, but also expresses the dictates of reason and equity, of justice, and prudence and humanity." At Budapest in 1938 "Face to face with us is drawn up the lugubrious array of the militant godless, shaking the clenched fist of anti-Christ against everything every-thing we hold most sacred. Face to fat:e with us spreads the army of those who would like to make all peoples of the earth and each individual human being believe they can find prosperity only by receding re-ceding from the gospel of Christ and that the happiness and greatness of society, as of individuals, can but grow dim in the shadow of the Cross." At Lourdes, France, in 1935 . "It matters little that they (the dictators) mass around the flag of social revolution. They are inspired by a false conception of the world and life. Whether they are possessed by superstition of race and blood, their philosophy as that of others, rests upon principles essentially opposed to those of the Christian faith. And on such principles the church does not consent to form a compact with them at any price." - |