Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-20
Pope Plus Appeals
To u. :. for Aid 10
Foreign Missions
Calls Upon Americans
To Open Purses to
Help Rebuild Damage
~ the Associated Press.

0y the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY, Oct. 19-Pope
Plus XII in an appeal to the United
States for generous contributions
to wartime foreign missions declared
today "the peace of the world also
Is & missionary aim of the church"
The Pontif1 spoke in English dur
ing a brief broadcast on the eve
OF the observance of missionary
Sunday by the 1l8-year-old Catho-
lie Society for the Propagation of
the Faith.
In speaking of the kingdom of
God on earth for which Christians
pray. he said, This kingdom Of
peace = between peoples ana ma
tons of the world is based on an
equitable adjustment of differences
and on that union that comes with
right and order"
Urges Purses Be Opened.
AT the present hour men are far
removed from this peace" the Pope
continued. The intimate sense of
common values, both in the nat
ural and supernatural order. threat
ems to abdicate from many hearts
to opposing principles.
$50 much more comforting then
and inspiring will be your efficacious
fidelity to the Catholic missionary
spirit
He called upon Americans to open
up their purses literally to help
rebuild what has been damaged and
to reassure those who are discour-
aged"
Regions involved in the European
war, the Pontiff added, would
await with confidence" the Amer
lean response.
Text of Broadcast.
Following is the text of the Pope's
broadcast:
Venerable brethren and beloved
children, we are on the eve OF the
day dedicated to advancing the
growth of Catholic missions through
out the world; and while our heart
embraces with the love Of the Fa-
Their the whole vast flock OF Christ,
1t turns with special feelings to-
ward YOU. generous citizens Of the
United States of America, whose
lands have received from nature
herself an abundant largess OF her
treasures and where heavens smile
on a people industrious and strong.
Our voice. on the wings OF that
marvellous creation Of human genius,
Is waited from the Vatican hill
across the Atlantic in answer to your
desire to hear from us word that
might stimulate the ardor OF your
missionary zeal. Delightful and still
vivid in our mind is the memory
of our visit among you, and OF the
long Journeys we made by air across
these fertile regions amazing with
their mountains and plains, lakes
and rivers. Then it was we came
to know and admire your cities, your
churches and cathedrals, your high
schools. colleges and universities, the
well-balanced spirit of your continu-
Gus activity the extraordinary mon
uments of your ardent faith and
charity. Nmt"
Hope IakeS on new Lie.
Today, though his unworthy sue
cessor. we occupy the chair Of Peter
and while these precious memories,
never to be erased, carry our
thoughts to you, our gaze stretches
far beyond over the face OF the
earth. and the hope that you will
help in spreading the gospel takes
on new life, new strength, ex-
pands and is lifted up to the
sublime heights scaled by your eager
and unselhsh zeal to bring the ma
tions to the feet of Christ. Yours
Is Maryknoll, the society for foreign
missions, with Maryknoll, whose
members in Eastern Asia are trying
to spread the faith in holy rivalry
with those other religious Institutes
of men and women, founded, 1t is
true, in Europe, but counting even
they among their missionaries so
many of your own heroes and hero
ines. Yours, too, is the glory OF
large souled liberality that gives
honor to your name in the harvest
fields of the gospel and among the
tillers of Christ. Far from permit
ting their glory to be furnished, you
are preparing tomorrow to add lus-
ter to its brightness.
AS tomorrow dawnS and Catholics
the world over vie with each other
In their desire to assist the missions,
Christ's missionaries will look up
from the fields where they labor in
the sweat of their brow, where they
suffer deprivations, fight their bat
ties, win their victories; sisters con-
secrated to instruct the youth and
alleviate the hardships of human
fortune will look out from their
orphanages, from their hospitals,
from their schools; the East and
West, the icebound lands Of both
poles, the immense regions incar-
nadined and made desolate by in
ternational strife. will be expectant;
the church, Christ's spouse, her
hand outstretched, We come with
eyes uplifted to heaven for you,
Christ himself. redeemed of the
world, will await with holy con-
fdence the promise OF the day. Is
not He, as it were, the God mis-
sionary of the Father who came
down from heaven in the form of
serpent, herald of the good news,
divine ambassador; and when His
mission to bring life was crowned
by the bitterness of death, raised
from the ground on Golgothas Cross
crucified, He opened wide His arms
to draw men unto Him. John
1922
Look, venerable brethren and
beloved children, gaze on the world
and on the harvest of souls every
where so fair to see, but over its
fields and laundering waves tenn
pest of battles, of destruction. of
suffering, of countless human sor-
rows. Behold how many messengers
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