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Short thread from Pope St Paul VI.
"The moral, spiritual and religious supports of the past too often give way without securing in return any guarantee of a place in the new world." /1
"The moral, spiritual and religious supports of the past too often give way without securing in return any guarantee of a place in the new world." /1
"In this confusion the temptation becomes stronger to risk being swept away towards types of messianism which give promises but create illusions." /2
"The resulting dangers are patent: violent popular reactions, agitation towards insurrection, and a drifting towards totalitarian ideologies. Such are the data of the problem. Its seriousness is evident to all." /3
"Just as the whole of creation is ordained to its Creator, so spiritual beings should of their own accord orientate their lives to God, the first truth and the supreme good." /4
"Revolutionary uprising, save where there is manifest, long-standing tyranny which would do great damage to fundamental rights and harm to the common good of the country, produces new injustices, throws more elements out of balance and brings on new disasters." /5
"All social action involves a doctrine. The Christian cannot admit that which is based upon a materialistic and atheistic philosophy, which respects neither the religious orientation of life to its final end, nor human freedom and dignity." /6
"It is to be expected that nations endowed with an ancient culture should be proud of the patrimony which their history has bequeathed to them. But these legitimate feelings should be ennobled by that universal charity which embraces the entire human family." /7
"Racism is not the exclusive lot of young nations, where sometimes it hides beneath the rivalries of clans and political parties, with heavy losses for justice and at the risk of civil war." /8
"Peace cannot be limited to a mere absence of war, the result of an ever precarious balance of forces. No, peace is something that is built up day after day, in the pursuit of an order intended by God." /9
"Changes are necessary, basic reforms are indispensable: the laymen should strive resolutely to permeate them with the spirit of the Gospel." 
(All quotes from the encyclical "Populorum Progressio", 1967) /FIN
(All quotes from the encyclical "Populorum Progressio", 1967) /FIN
