Vatican City, Oct, 27.
"Salvation will not come from the sword but from respect of vindicated the rights "of human conscience,"
Beginning with the worlds "Summi Pontificatus" from which it drew its name, the encyclical proceeded:
"Considering the state as a means in itself and subordinating everything to it cannot but harm the true and lasting prosperity of nations. That is what happens when a state acts as a self-appointed master disdainful of human rights end institutions,"
'A further bitter attack against states which "deny allegiance to the Divine Ruler which is contrary to principles of natural religion and Christian conscience because it deprives humanity of divine authority which is the foundation of true right" is included in the encyclical which then vindicated the freedom of thought, American Steamer volved in Latest Incident The American steamer City of Flint, captured by a German cruiser and taken to Murmansk, is reported to have been released following a strong demand by the United States. Here is the steamer arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with 200 American and Canadian survivors of the British liner Athenia which was torpedoed by a German submarine.
Rights of Human Conscience "The rights of human conscience are sacred," the Pope said, Pointing' out that suppression of such rights "is greatly harmful to mutual confidence between individuals as well as between peoples and brings about faithlessness to the pledged word while tending to entrust the solution of disputes to arms rather than to reason and right," His Holiness deplored that among states "laws of human solidarity have been forgotten as well as feelings of charity as a result of the error tending to cast aside all dependence of human authority towards God."
"God and the divine character of Christ and Christian doctrine have been rejected" the Pope stated,
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