Evening star., 1939-02-10
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, Feb. 10.-Pope
Plus directed 80 encyclical letters to
Catholic clergy throughout the world
In the course of his long rule.
They dealt with wide range of
subjects-War and peace, missions,
Communism. motion pictures, mar
riage, social problems, the Holy
Sees relations with Fascist Italy,
the position of the Catholic Church
in Spain, Mexico, Russia and Ger
many.
His first encyclical, called "Ubi
Arcane" after the first two words
of the Latin text was published
December %, 1922, slightly less than
10 months after Plus ascended the
throne of st. Peter.
1t was an impassioned plea for
that peace to which his holiness had
dedicated his ponticate. 1t began
with a review of the legacies Of the
World War.
"Paternal authority has ceased to
command respect" the ties of blood
are loosened," "conjugal loyalty is
violated" the bounds dictated by
modesty are exceeded, above all in
fashions and the dance" 'class con-
flict has arisen within nations
these were among the woes the Pom
tiff recited.
Lateran Treaty His Monument.
After an analysis of the causes of
war, his holiness concluded that
"what is required is peace which
penetrates hearts, appeases them
and opens them little by little to
mutual sentiments of fraternal
charity, a peace which would be the
peace of Christ"
In this same encyclical the Pope
prayed for peace between Italy and
the Holy See, thereby foreshadowing
the Lateran Treaty, greatest monu-
ment of his reign.
Italy never will have anything to
fear from the Apostolic See," he
proclaimed. as he declared his pro
found grief that his native land
was not among those nations which
maintain friendly relations with
the Holy See"
The next three encyclicals cele-
brated the lives of three saints.
"Rerum Omnium" February 26,
1929 commemorated the Booth an
niversary of the death of st. Fran
els of Sale.
"Studiorum Duce" (June %, 1929
was published in connection with
the 600th anniversary of the canon
ization of st. Thomas Aquinas. The
Holy Father commended his ex-
ample to "the majority of youth.
who, seduced by the attractions of
passion, lose their holy purity pre-
mateurely and become the slaves Of
pleasure"
Reauthorized Diocesan Units.
"Ecclesiam Del" (November II,
1929 commemorated the 300th an
niversary of the martyrdom of st.
Josephat, Archbishop of Polotsk.
whose devotion to the Church of
Rome in the schismatic East cost
him his life.
In Mailman Gravissimamque'
January 18, 1920 Pope Plus author
lied the Catholic clergy in France
to form diocesan associations, as
they had ben forbidden to do by
Plus x. It's object was to enable the
church in France to carry on its
work under the handicap imposed
by the separation law of 1905 which
deprived the church of many Of its
former prerogatives.
1920 was a forceful appeal for mill
tant missions.
Protested Mexico's Acts.
In ''Inquis Aff1ictisque" (November
18, 1926 the Pope voiced his dismay
over MeXico's treatment of the
Catholic Church. He sounded "cry
of alarm that the entire Catholic
world may learn from the common
father on the one hand to what
lengths the unbridled tyranny Of
our enemies has been loosed and on
the other what has been the virtue,
the heroic constancy of the bishops,
priests, religious orders and laity."
The Pontiff admonished Mexicos
rulers to reflect that "all that has
been achieved there in progress and
civilization, everything which is
good and beautiful, derives from the
church."
"Mortalium Animos" (January 6,
1929 was the Holy Fathers plea for
all those outside the Church of
Rome to return to the "one and true
Church of Christ" He decried, how
ever, efforts to bring all religions to-
gether on neutral ground, saying
such campaigns have no right to
the approval of Catholics, for they
are based on the error that all re-
ligions are more or less good and
praiseWorthy"
In "Miserentissimus Redemptor"
(May 8, 1929 he spoke of countries
where "every right, divine and hu-
man, has been destroyed" Churches
are razed, ruined from top to bot
tom; he continued: Priests and
nuns are elected from their domi-
Giles, exposed to insults and harsh
treatment, subjected to hunger, con-
demned to prison; multitudes of