The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-18

an idealogy that proc.aims and acts upon the denial of e per- sonal and omnlpotent God, re- jects contemptuously the Divine Saviour of the World, all Chris tian principles and Christian clll. ture; ruthlessly persecutes rec ligion end brutally lnurders It's ministers. The leaders of athe. istAo communism have done this l1efarlous work. Under them only antt-6or and antisC Christian props uganda can have liberty of ace ton.
 Pope Plus xI, who pronounced the most explicit condemnation of atheistlc communism, expressed in the same encyelical his pater. nal and compassionate benevo- lence for the people of Russia, In these words:
 Tn making these observations it Is no part of our intention to condemn en naasse the peoples of the Soviet Union. For them, we cherish the warmest paternal af. lection. We are well award ethat not few of them groaSi beneath the yoke imposed on them by men who, in very large part, are strangers to the real interests Of their country. We recognize that many were deceived by fallacious hopes. We blame only the sys- tenn, with It's authors and Abettors who considered Russia the best field for experimenting with c plan elaborated decades ago, and who from there continue to spread 1t from one end Of the Woridu to the other"
 We, the Bishops, who here exs press, ct this critical hour, our judgment In these matters os gravest Import, while enjoying, as we do, 6 weil-ordered liberty in c free country, declare our devotion to Ills Holiness, Pope Plus XII, and our loyalty to his leadership as the vicar of Christ and the common father of ell nations and peoples.
 Pray for Peace
 We unite with our Holy Father in praying for the attainment of Q peace that will be accepted by oil right.thinking governments and individuals as permeated by justice and charity. We earnestly ask our priests and people to continue their prayers that the violence of the war tempest may soon be spent, and that just peace and an ordered prosperity may be restored to Q distracted world.
 In a Christmas message to the world, His Holiness Pope Plus XII, on Dec. {, 1889, laid down i've points for c just and honor. able peace. In our own statement of April. i94I, we urged the con- sideration of these conditions pro. posed by our Holy Father. Again, in his message delivered on Christmas Eve, l940, His Holiness reiterated these five indispensable prerequisites for the right kind of 6 new order In the world. lie called them triumphs-the tri- umph over hate, over mistrust, over the spirit of ruthless selfish. ness, over the conflict in world economy, over the false principle that might makes right.
 Observing the flfteth anniver. Sary of the magma charta of labor. the Reruna NovaruKn of Leo XIII, His Holiness Pope Plus XII on June ], ie4i, spoke of three fundamental values" which must be kept in mind for the recen. struction of the world after he present devastating war.
 The first of these values has to do with the use of material goods. ills Holiness quotes from the let- ter which he addressed to the American hierarchy, "sertum Laetitiae," on Nov. l, 1889, in which he stated that "the gods which were created by God for ell men should How equitably to all, according to the principles of JuStlce ana cnarity'
 Human Lab0r
 The second fundamental value considered by His Holiness Is hu. man labor. He says:
 The duty and the correspond. ing right to work are imposed on and conceded to. the individual in the first instance by nature and not by society. The duty and the right to organize the labor of the people belong above all to ... the employers and the workers.
 Tt develves upon the state to intervene in the field of labor and in the division and distribution of work according to the form and measure that the common good, properly understood, demands. Every legitimate and beneficial interference of the state in the field Of labor should be such as to safeguard and respect It's personal character"
 The third "value" emphasizes the importance of the possession VA R4AN3t@ R4&RSAby " s@AO &4sAA~ fly. His Holiness insists that, of all goods which can be held as private property, 'nong Is more conformable to nature than the land" The Holy Father lays stress on the social significance of widespread ownership of land in the form of the family home stead. To him, the function of the family as the root of a nations greatness and power is bound up with family ownership of "the holding on which 1t lives, and from which 1t draws all or part of its suhs.stence." without that stability which is rooted in It's own holding" the family cannot be the ''cell of society" which nee tIire destined it to be.
 Domestic progress and peace depend on securing vital space for tho rural family, as word prog ress and peace depend On secur- ing space for all the nations Of the world. Accordingly, an ade- Quate solution og the problems Of