Evening star., 1941-06-30
Hy the Associated Press.

VATICAN CITY, June 30.-FOl-
toUinq are excerpts from Pope
Plus XIIS radio broadcast to the
Dorld yesterday:
We, too. beloved children who,
by an inscrutable design of God.
have received in succession to Peter,
to Linus and to a hundred other
sanity pontiffs the mission to COM
fort and confirm our brethren in
Jesus Christ (cfr Luke 22-32), we
like you feel our heart grow faint
at the thought of the tempest of
evil, of suffering and of anguish
that now RACES over the world.
There are not lacking it is true,
In the darkness Of the storm. COM
forting sights which dilate our
hearts with great and holy expecta-
tions; courage in defense Of the
fundamentals of Christian civiliza-
ton and confident hope in their
triumph; the most intrepid patriot
ism: heroic acts of virtue; chosen
souls ready for every sacrifice;
wholehearted self surrender; wide
spread reawakening of faith and Of
piety.
But on the other hand: Sin and
evil penetrating the lives of indi-
dividuals, the sacred shrine of FAM
fly, the social organism; and being
now no longer merely tolerated
through weakness or impotence, but
excused exalted. entering as master
into the most diverse phases OF hu-
man life; decadenCe of the spirit
of Justice and charity; peoples over
thrown or fallen into an abyss of
disasters: human bodies torn by
bombs or by machine-gun fire;
wounded and sick who fill hos
pitals and come out often with their
health ruined their limbs mutilated,
invalids for the rest of their lives;
prisoners far from those dear to
them and often without news OF
them: individuals and families de-
ported, transported, separated, torn
from their homes. wandering in mis-
erv without support. without means
of earning their daily bread: evils
all of them which affect not only
the fighters but weight on the whole
population, old men. women and
children, the most innocent, the
most peace loving. those bereft OF all
defence: blockades and counter
hlockades which aggravate almost
everywhere the difficulty of getting
supplies of foodstuffs so that al
ready. here and there, famine IN all
its horrors makes its presence felt;
added to this the indeScrlbable sui
fering pain and persecution which
so many of our dear sons and daugh-
ters-priests, religious layfolK-ln
some places endure for the name
of Christ because of their religion,
of their fidelity to the church, be-
cause of their sacred ministry pains
and bitterness which anxiety for
those that suffer does not permit us
to reveal in all their sad and NOV
ing details.
Mems View Too Short.
Before such an accumulation OF
evils. of obstacles to virtue, OF dis
ssters. of trials of every kind. 1t
seems that mans mind and judg-
ment to go astray and become con-
fused and perhaps in the heart OF
more than one of you has arisen the
terrible suggestion of doubt which
perchance at the death Of the two
apostles was a disturbing temp
tation for some of the less stanch
Christians: How can God permit
Ill +t,Ieo ro,, on onoiDot emf God
infinitely wise and infinitely good,
possibly allow so many evils which
he might so easily prevent? And
there arise to the lips the words of
Peter. still imperfect when the pas
sion was foretold: Lord, be 1t far
from Thee" Matthew xvi.22).
No, my God-they think-nelther
your wisdom nor your goodness nor
your honor itself can allow that evil
and violence dominate to such an
extent over the world, deride you
and triumph by your silence. Where
Is your power and providence? Must
we then doubt either your divine
government or your love for us? '*'
All men are as children before
God, all even the most profound
thinkers and the most experienced
leaders of peoples. They judge
events with the foreshortened vision
of time, which passes and flies past
irreparably; God, on the other hand,
sees events from on high from the
unmoved center of eternity. They
have before their eyes the limited