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Show POPE APPEALS TO POWERSFOR PEACE IMPLORES RULERS TO STOP CARNAGE CAR-NAGE WHICH FOR A YEAR HAS DISHONORED EOUROPE. "This is the Blood of Brothers That is Being Shed on Land and Sea." Rulers Are Asked to Put an End to Terrible Strife. Paris. Pope Benedict has made an appeal to the warring nations to end the war which has been in progress in Europe for the past twelve months. In his appeal he says:' When we were called to succeed to the apostolic throne of Pope Pius X, whose upright and exemplary life was brought to an end by the fraticidal struggle which broke out in Europe, we, too, felt after gazing fearfully upon the bloody battlefield the despair de-spair of a father who witnesses his home torn asunder and ravaged by a furious tempest. We thought, with inexpressible sorrow, sor-row, of our young sons cut down by death; we felt in our heart, enlarged by Christian charitableness, the great unspeakable sadness of mothers and of wives made widows before their times, and the tears of children deprived de-prived too soon of parental guidance. Today, on the sad anniversary of the terrible conflict, our heart gives forth the wish that the war will soon end. We raise again our voice to utter a fatherly cry for peace. May this cry dominating the frightful noise of arms, reach the warring peoples and their chiefs and induce kindly and more serene se-rene Intentions. In the name of the Lord God; in the name of the Father and Lord in heaven; in the name of the blessed blood of Jesus the price of the redemption re-demption of humanity we implore the belligerent nations before divine providence forthwith to end the hor-. hor-. rible carnage, which for a year has i been dishonoring Europe. This is the blood of brothers that is . being shed on land and sea. The most beautiful regions of Europe this garden gar-den of the world are sown with bodies bod-ies and ruins. There, where recently fields and factories thrived, cannon now roar in a frightful manner in a frenzy of demolition, sparing neithei cities nor villages and .spreading the ravages of death. You who before God and men are charged with the grave responsibilitj of peace and war, listen to our prayer listen to the fatherly voice of the vi car of the eternal and supreme Judge to whom you should give account ol your public works as well as private actions. And it cannot be said that the enor mous conflict cannot be ended with out violence of arms. May this craze for destruction be abandoned; nations do not perish: Humiliated and op pressed, they tremblingly carry the yoke imposed on them and prepare their, revenge, transmitting from gen eration to generation a sorrowful her itage of hate and vengeance. Why no now weigh with serene conscience the rights and Just aspirations of the peo .pies? . Why not start with good will a direct or indirect exchange of viewe with the object of considering as fai as possible these rights and aspira i tions and thus piit to an end the ter rihle combat? |
