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a PAPAL ENCYCI.ICAL
POPE Plus x. REAFF,RMs THE PRln-
ciPLEs OF POPE LEO Kill.

POPE Plus x. REAFFlRMs THE PRIN-
ciPLES OF POPE LEO XIII.
Fundamental Rules Upon which the
Entire Catholic Movement Must BE
Based-The POntiff's Letter to All
Catholic Committees, Societies and
Unions.
Pope Plus z. has issued the funda-
mental rules and principles by which it
is proposed the Catholic Church shall
direct the democratic movement in all
parts of the world. Pope Plus x. has
for the purposes of his statement of
principles adopted the encyclicals Of
Leo XIII. They are renewed by the
present Pope and sanctioned as the
rules to govern the relations between
capital and labor The summary of
Pope Plus embraces also certain of the
instructions issued from time to time
by Leo XIII.
Here is the letter of the Pope to all
Catholic committees, societies and un-
ions:
In our first encyclical to the bishops
of the world, in which we echoed all
that our glorious predecessors had laid
down concerning the Catholic action of
the laity, we declared that this action
was deserving of the highest praise and
was indeed necessary in the present
condition of the Church and Of society.
And we cannot but firmly praise the
zeal shown by SO many illustrious per-
sonages who have for long time dedi-
Gated themselves to this glorious task
and the ardor of so many brilliant
young people who have eagerly has
tened to lend their aid in the same.
The nineteenth Catholic congress,
lately held at Bologna, and by us pro-
NOTED and encouraged, has sufficiently
proved to all the vigor of the Catholic
forces and what useful and salutary
results may be obtained among popu-
lation Of believers when this action is
we'll governed and disciplined and
where unity of thought, sentiment and
action prevails among those who take
part in it,
But we are very sorry to find that
certain differences which arose in the
midst Of them have produced discus
sions, unfortunately too vivacious,
which, if not dispelled in time, might
serve to divide those forces Of which
we have spoken and render them less
effica cious.
Before the congress we recommend
ed above all things unity and har-
mony in order that it might be posi-
BILE to lay down by common accord the
general lines for the practical working
of the Catholic movement, and we can
not therefore be silent now And since
divergence of views in matters of Drac-
tice have commonly their origin in the
sarily find their fulcrum in the latter
it is necessary to define clearly the
principles on which the entire Cath
Ollie movement must be based.
Our illustrious predecessor, Leo Kill,
Of holy memory, traced out LUMINOSITY
the rules that must be followed in the
Christian movement among the people
in the great encyclicals, 'quod Apos-
toilet muneris" of Dec. %, 1873; "rerum
novarum" of May Is, 1891, and graves
de communi' Of Jan. Is, 1901, and fur
Their in a particular instruction ema-
mating from the Sacred Congregation
for extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs
of JAN 81, 1902.
And we, realizing like our predeces-
sor before US, the great need that the
Christian movement among the people
be rightly governed and conducted de-
sire to have those most prudent rules
exactly and completely fulfilled and to
provide that nobody may dare to depart
from them in the smallest particulars.
Hence to keep them more wildly
present before peoples minds we haye
deemed it we'll to summarize them in
the following articles, which will con-
stitute the fundamental plan Of the
Catholic popular movement.
Human society, as established by
God, is composed of unequal elements,
just as the different parts of the hui
man body are unequal. To make them
all equal is impossible and would mean
the destruction of human society.
(Ency. Quod Apostolici Muneris.)
The equality existing among the vari-
GUS social members consists only In
this: That all men have their origin in
God the Creator, have been redeemed
by Jesus Christ and are to be judged
and rewarded or punished by God ex-
| actly according to their merits or de-
merits. (Ency. Quod Apostolici Mu-
neris.)
The following are obligations of jus
the binding on the proletarian and the
workingman: To perform fully and
faithfully the work which has been
freely and according to equity agreed
upon; not to injure the property OF
outrage the person Of masters; even in
the defense of their own rights to alb
stain from acts of violence, and never
to make mutiny of their defense (En-
~. Rerum Novarum.)
The following are obligations of jus
tice binding on capitalists: TO pay just