- 24 Dec 2023 14:32
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December 24, Sunday
Pope makes Christmas Eve peace appeal
In a delicately phrased Christmas address to his College of Cardinals today, Pope Pius XII speaks of the right of all nations—strong and weak—to life and independence. “When this equality of rights has been destroyed or damaged or imperiled, the juridical order calls for reparation and justice,” he adds.
Peace, he says, must be founded on disarmament. “The nations must be freed from the burden of armament races and from the danger that material forces may become not the defender but the tyrannical violator of right.” The pope appeals for a peace conference at which “lessons could be drawn from past experience.”
Pope makes Christmas Eve peace appeal
In a delicately phrased Christmas address to his College of Cardinals today, Pope Pius XII speaks of the right of all nations—strong and weak—to life and independence. “When this equality of rights has been destroyed or damaged or imperiled, the juridical order calls for reparation and justice,” he adds.
Peace, he says, must be founded on disarmament. “The nations must be freed from the burden of armament races and from the danger that material forces may become not the defender but the tyrannical violator of right.” The pope appeals for a peace conference at which “lessons could be drawn from past experience.”
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
—Edmund Burke
—Edmund Burke