“The law of life, alike for the souls of men and for
nations, lays down principles of justice and universal harmony and the limits
to be set to the use of wealth, enjoyments and worldly power. When this law is
violated, terrible and merciless sanctions come automatically into action. No
state can escape. To each its hour. War is one of the most tremendous
sanctions. It is willed not by God hut by men, nations and states, through
their representatives....
“And while the war rages, the peoples can only turn
to the Miserere and beg for the Lord's mercy, that it may outweigh his justice
and with a great outpouring of grace bring the powerful men of this world to
their senses and persuade them to make peace.”—Angelo Roncalli (later Pope John
XXIII), diary entry for November 26, 1940, in Journal of a Soul (1965), translated by Dorothy White
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