"We find the same cardinal principle of the Party, in the Soviet doctrine. When in 1926 a number of Bolshevik jurists asked for a definition of marriage to avoid wniversai anarchy the official reply was; "We categorically refuse to regard eyisiration as a condition apart from which there can be no marriage, It is not seriously credible that registration makes the cohabita-
difffferent from their unregistered cohabitation. In view of the fact that seven years ago we abolished the distinction between legitimate and It should not be surprising that the Soviet fallacy has spread in a world already to a large extent dechristianized. Those who by word and act proclaim that they believe in no essential difference between man and the brute, who have thrown aside their faith in a God who rewards and punishes eternally, who have cried out for a new morality to justify their yielding to animal instincts who have done all in their power to break down the sanctity of the family, who have adopted the earth-bound philosophy of that man who thought he had made his life a success merely by filling his barns, till Christ said of him, "Thou fool—it is such as these who have prepared and are preparing the way for the universal triumph of Communism.
The voice of the Catholic Church rings out clear and strong, bidding the mations to listen if they would yet be saved. She alone speaks today as one having authority, calling the noblest and the best to join with her in rescuing a world in agony, in saving the Christian culture, in hatti. ing to restore all things in Christ, in bringing rue light to the hideous new night of barbarism.
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