Arizona republican., 1916-03-06
POPE BENEDICT
 RAISES VOICE
 URGING PEACE
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 a direct or indirect manner the de sres of each of the parties, taking
 into consideration within the limits of justice and possibility, the aspira tions of the people. accepting, if need be- for the sake of equity and the common good of nations. the ob ligatory and necessary sacrifices Of pride and particular interests.
 Such was, and such remains the only way of settling the monstrous conflict according to the rules of jus tice and for arriving at q peace which would be advantageous not alone to one of the parties but to all, and which would be just and
 lasting.
 "Our paternal voice unhappily, has not been needed up to the present and the war continues furiously with all its horrors.
 Notwithstanding that, we cannot and must not keep silent It is not permitted to the father, whose sons are engaged in fierce battles among themselves to cease warning them because they don't heed his eXhorta tions and tears
 "On the other hand, you understand that our repeated appeal for peace did not obtain the desired effect. It had, however, q profound echo in, and permeated like a balm, the heart of the beligerent peoples and more over that of the peoples of the en- tire world and awoke lively and ardent desire to see the bloody con fict settled as soon as possible. "It is not, on the other hand, for us, therefore to refrain from raising once again our voice against this war which appears to us as the suicide of civilized Europe. We must not neglect to suggest and indicate, un- der the circumstances permit any means which would be likely to con tribute to attaining this much de sired goal"
 i "A favorable occasion is offered us | by some pious ladies who have mani | Tested an intention to form among | themselves, in view of the approach 1 ing holy forty days. q spiritual union of prayer and modification, in order to obtain more easily from the infi-
  l fIightfHl calamity. We have often raised constant prayer and the christian penance as the only com 1 fort for our heart, as for every hu- man heart, in the distress engineered 1 by this terrible fratricidal war and as | a very efficaciOus means for implOr l ing from the lord the peace to which we aspire.
 "The project which We have just expounded could not fail to be very agreeable to us. That is why we 1 hlessed it with all the outpouring of our paternal sentiments. We now | commend it publicly in our desire that all the faithful adopt it in their | turn.
 We therefore, feel confident that 1 not only at Rome. but in all Italy as ! in the other belligerent cause, catholic | families, especially during the days conSecrated by the church to penance, will retire within themselves, far | from worldly spectacles and amuse ment, in more fervent and more as l sidi3ue prayer and in the practice of | christian modification. This will make more agreeable to the lord the supplication of his sons and it ap- pears, moreover, in the present cir cumstances as supremely opportune and in harmony with the affliction of every noble heart.
 "The mothers, wives, daughters and l sisters of the combatants feel that
 more Vividly then anyone else in the 1 tenderness and goodness of their soul and they measure the immen- 1 sity of the calamity evidenced by this l horrible war. We eXhort them in a most especial way, to make use of
 the example they set and of the be- ! nign power they exert in their homes | in Crder to bring all the members of 1 their family to offer to God in this i rrGpitious time, in these days of sal yation, a continuous and more fer
 vent prayer and present to His Di-
 vine throne the offering of voluntary | sacrifices which appease His just wrath
 l Furthermore, the catholic families of all belligerent nations will answer
 more fully our desire if they devote
 more particularly to such pious oc-
 cupation the day which is consecrat-
 cd to the sublime commemoration of | the Goldman in these hours which His
 Divine charity has made eternally l memorable
 "They will ask Him through the
 intercession of His mother of suffer
 ing. but also mother of indomnablt
 courage and queen of martyrs; they l will ask Him, who has willed to re-
 deem through His suffering ant