Sunday, March 11, 2012

Quote of the Day (Pope John XXIII, on War)


“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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