The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-26
POPE APPEALS
FOR UNITY IN
ROMAN CHURCH
Exhorts World to Worship
Virgin as InterCeSSor
With God.
BY THOMAS B. MORGAN
United Press STAFF Correspondent

United Press Stan Correspondent
VATICAN CITY, Dec. 26.-Pope
Plus XII appealed for unity in the
Catholic church and exhorted Pro-
testants to venerate the Virgin Mary
as the mother of God and inter
cessor with the Divine Saviour" IN
an encyclical today.
The encyclical, lux verltatls,
asked separated brethren and dis
sentient children" to return to the
fold and made a final exhortation
to the brethren Of the eastern
church.
THE objections which Professionals
bring forward against the venera-
ton of Mary are very clearly
answered" a resume Of the en-
cyclical said.
The encyclical was issued in con-
nection with the celebration of the
fifteenth centennial of the Ecumen-
icaI conucil of Ephesus, which pro-
claimed the dogmas of the divine
human nature of Gods Son, the di-
vine maternity of the Virgin Mary,
and the primacy of the bishop of
Rome.
Seeks Reunion
The council, which met at the
ancient city of Ephesus in Asia
Minor, condemned the HISTORIAN
doctrine which aimed to destroy the
complete unity of the divine and
the human in the person of Christ.
The pope said the celebration
OFFERS the Holy Father the occasion
of sending the Catholic world new
encyclical, which, according to the
uses of the curia, is entitled from its
first words, Lux Veritatis.'
A resume of the encyclical issued
at the vatican said the pope lis
firmly confident that should his
words be diligently meditated upon
they will bring not only comfort to
Catholics throughout the world, but
be the motive for separated
brethren to consider that the
Roman church has always been
faithful depositary and custodian of
the doctrines of Jesus Christ; and
that in the first ages of Christianity
al other churches and religious
communities of the east and west
had recourse in it as an infallible
teacher of truth"
In the first place, the encyclica1
threats with the supreme infalIibIe
teachings of the Roman pontif,"
the resume said.
Christ Two Natures
after referring to the rise of
HISTORIAN heresy which endeavored
fifteen centuries ago, as preceding
heresies had done, to divide the
unity of the universal church, it
shows by citation of copious his
toricaI documents how in the gray
est extremity the entire Christian
hierarchy recognized the supreme
authority of the bishop of Rome"
Referring to the unity of the
church the resume said:
The August pontiff repeated the
paternal invitation to dissentient
children who, by ancient and mod
ern schisms and heresies have
lacerated the mystical union of the
body of Christ, to return to the one
fold of the sole pastor"
The encyclicaI then threats on the
point that in Jesus Christ two ma
lures, divine and human, are
united in one and only one divine
person.
THE sacred scriptures and tradi-
ton speak of only one person as
the same sole Saviour, who is called
both Man and God Man who is
born, nourished, suffers, and dies;
God who works the greatest mir
acles by his owp power
Mary, Mother of God
This truth afforded the pontif
the occasion to return to the sub
ject of unity of the true church.
which is the mystical body of Jesus
Christ"
The resume said the encyclical
finally developed the point that the
Virgin Mary was the true mother
of God, adding:
eff indeed Jesus Christ is God,
she has borne him and must be
called Theotocos-that is mother of
God. And if she is the mother of
God she must be full of grace and
adorned with every privilege.
Therefore we should venerate.
love, and initiate her.
The objections which Protestants
bring forward against the venera-
ton of Mary are very clearly an
sWered. Indeed the pontiff I'd
dresses them also in parental ex-
hortation to follow the example of
the Catholics in invoking the pro-
lection of the Virgin as the media
trlX and intercessor with the divine
Saviour.
THE final exhortation was made
by the pontiff to the brethren of
the eastern church who also
venerate Mary as Roman Catholics
and who for so many centuries
maintained themselves in unity
with the Apostolic See and who in
the Council of Ephesus saluted the
pope as the custodian of the
faith"