Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-01-29 | Page 1 | Benedict Asks United Effort toward Peace

BENEDICT ASKS UNITED EFFORT TOWARD PEACE Pontiff Protests Avidity for' Wealth and Thirst for Pleasure ROME. Jan. 23. Pope Benedict, on the occasion of the seventh centennaryl of the founding oi the Third trdcr pf St. Francis of Asxlsd, addressed an encyclical today to all bishops throughout through-out the world calling on oil mankind to work for world peace and Christian j conciliation invoking especially the as-, slstanoe Of all children of Christian peace and those l-elonning to the third order. TIIIRST FOR PLEASURES, True peace, says the encyclical, Is j Impossible unless it Is based upon the tranquility of the soul. Therefore, Christian virtue i necessary. Tertlar-, lea mum diffuse Christian spin fend oppose the two worst contemporary evils namely, ths inevitable advtdity to' possess worldly goods and th- un- I quenchable thirst for pleasure. These i-vlls show themselves In perpetual con-, test between the proltturlat anil the; rich as well as In Immodesty of worn-) en's dress and modern dancing. INFLFKXCK F 1KN 'Let men follow St Kr.ux Is of Assist, ' whose const-mi desire was to make, himself Christ-like in poverty, humll-i Ity and self-sacrifice, lt women bo j convinced that tbey cannot better ac.- quire mei It towards the church and' their mother country' than by working, for the correction of corrupt cus-1 toms." The ponttff concludes by urging the bishops to increase as well as to ; revive associations of terttaiies throughout the world and calls attention atten-tion thai he himself Is eiyulled. oo