The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

POPE PIUs xT
 His late holiness with prophetic vision declared aim of Naxlsm was 'swar ee extermlnatlOn - Ills opinions reflected In bishops report
 onset of . reconstruction of new social order, (which Is Q desire worthy of God and of Tnan) will infuse new courage and Q new wave of prOfusion and growth in human culture" The words of the Pope of Peace regarding the conditions he lays down for peace and the triumphs to be achieved sn the reconstruction of Q world order In which justice and char. lty are to prevail, deserve our most careful study.
 FrateEnal Charity
 With apostolic liberty and with Sraternal charity, we send our greetings and sympathy to our suffering brother Bishops and their flocks in all countries where subversive forces are prosecuting religion and denying freedom of conscience. Our fervent prayers arc offered for their liberation, for their freedom to worship God according to the dictates of theiy conscience, for their frees dom of education, their freedom of assembly, their freedom from the slavery of tyranny; the free. doms of the sons of God.
 Our sympathy goes out again to the peoples of those countries who have been crushed under the heel of the invader; and indeed, to all upon whom war has imposed so heavy Q burden of suffering and sacrifice. We cannot too strongly condemn the inhuman treatment to which the Jewish people have been subjected in many countries.
 Tn this hour of cruel torture, we are mindful, daily at Gods altar, of all the innocent victims Of the war, of the homeless, the exiled, the imprisoned, and all who are suffering because of hun- ger of disease. We ask the faith. ful to unite with us in offering daily prayers and sacrifice In ts.elr behalf.
 We support wholeheartedly the adequate defense of our country. Thoughtful statesmen are pers piexed, patriotic citizens are d. vided in their opinions as to the procedure our country should fol. low. In these crucial times, when the civil fabric Of every country is threatened and when dlctators would destroy all religion, we herewith restate the position of the Catholic Church In the Ian. guage Of the immortal Pope Leo XIII:
 The Almighty has appointed the charge of the human race be- tween two powers, the ecclesias- tical and the civil; the one being set over divine, and the other human things. Each in its kind is supreme; each has fixed limits within which 1t is contained, limits which are defined by the nature and special object of the province of each, SO that there is, we may say, an orbit within which the action of each Is brought into play by its own native right.
 Definite ObJectives
 "But inasmuch as each of these two powers has authority over the same subjects, and as one and the same thing, under different as- poets but still remaining indenti- cally the same, might chance to fall under the jurisdiction and de. termination of both powers, God who Soresees all things and is author alike of these two powers, has marked out the course of each in correlation to the other. For the powers that are, are or dained of God (Rom. xiii, D.
 Were this not so, deplorabIe contentious and conflicts would often arise, and not infrequently men, like travellers at the meet. ing of two roads, would hsitattl in anxiety and doubt, not knowing what course to follow. The powers would be commanding contrary things, and 1t would be a derelic- ton of duty to either of the two. But to judge thus of the wisdom and goodness of God would be most repugnant. One of the two has for its proximate and chief object the well-belng of this mortal life; the other, the joys of Heaven.
 Whatever. therefore in things human is of a sacred character, whatever belongs, either of its own nature or by reason of the end to which 1t is referred, to the salvation of souls, or to the wor- ship of God, is subject to the power and judgment of the church. WaA8tCNSS 5 t0 " uk1dSE tkl0 CIVIL and political order Is rightly sub- Jected to the civil authority. Jesus Christ has Himself given com- mand that what is Caesars is to be rendered to Caesar, and that what belongs to God is to be ren. dered to God"
 Supreme Authority
 Rendering this solemn teaching of Pope Leo XIII. we must recog- nize that all lawful authority is from God. '.Kset everyone he sub- Ject to the higher authorities, for there exists no authority except from God" (Ep. St. Paul to the Romans ls:Il.
 Dlsrespect for authority, both ecclesiastical and civil, must be condemned. In the confusion of the hour, we deplore the presump- ton Of thos e who. lacking author ity, strive to determine the course of action that the church should Amka rwtA2aew hay NlAAwaps esaf3vamd