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...Pope Pius' visit to King Victor Emmanuel late in December was significant because...
...several centuries too late for Pius XII to proclaim officially a crusade, but His Holiness gave every sign last week of finding the metaphor chosen by Cardinal Verdier felicitous. With joy the French primate received a letter entirely in the handwriting of Pius XII. "We desire ardently," wrote the Pope, "that Catholic France, overcoming the difficulties of the present hour, achieve in ever greater degree her noble vocation of apostleship and civilization, which Divine Providence has assigned to her in the concert of nations...
Cardinal Lavitrano's pastoral gave point to a gentle scolding which Pope Pius XII delivered, on the same day, to all the parish priests of Rome-whose bishop he is. Speaking of "our times, in which religious ignorance is profound and full of peril," the Holy Father told his priests to bestir themselves, pay less attention to administrative duties, more to preaching. Said he: "Preach with simplicity, aiming at that practical sense which comes to the mind and guides the spirit. It is not scintillating and learned fluency that conquers souls, especially today, but rather the word of conviction...
Based upon the great social encyclicals of Popes Leo XIII and Pius XI, the bishops' statement reaffirmed the Church's defense of private ownership, denounced the principle of supply & demand as applied to labor, urged not only a living wage but a security wage for workers, called for stabilization between wages and prices. The bishops espoused anew the "true remedy" of Pius XI, who was opposed both to socialism and to extreme individualism (those who "are liberal only to the extent that they wish to be liberated from all social responsibility...
...means to be confused with the totalitarian form of the Italian corporative state, the guild system of Pius XI was blueprinted by the U. S. bishops only to this extent: "The chief qualifications of these vocational groups or guilds . . . are that they are autonomous, embrace whole industries and professions, are federated with other constituent groups, possess the right of free organization, assembly and vote, and that they should dedicate them selves to the common good and with governmental protection and assistance function in the establishment of justice and the general welfare in economic life...