Now when we reflect that even in the great democracies God has been exiled from some 90 per cent, of the schools; that our universities have been blandly teaching the very doctrines the totalitarians are today putting into practice with such dreadful results—when we reflect upon these undeniable facts, the following words of the Pope are very significant "Before all else," he says. "it is certain that the radical and ultimate cause of the evils which we deplore in modern society is the denial and rejection of a universal form of moraly, as well for individuals as for international relations, We mean the disregard so common today and the forgetfulness of the natural law itself, which has its foundation in God, Almighty Creator and Father of alt supreme and absolute Lawgiver, alliwise and just Judge of human actions.
Will the builders of the New Order [learn from mistakes of the past? The Holy Father hopes they will, What "are some of the definite errors of the [past that should be avoided in the future? The first regards the famil; The Holy Father warns of the dangers that will accrue to future generations from the neglect or non-recognition of the rights peculiar to the family, The second error is that of a non-religious education: "The crime of high treason against the King of Kings," he says, "is perpetrate ed by an education that is either indifferent or opposed to Christianity, the reversal of Christ's Suffer the little children to come unto me." If the new order must stay within the limits of a God-ordained morality, can it in any sense be a totalitarian state The Catholic Church answers that question in the official words of Pius XII: "No one of good will and vision will think of refusing the State, in the exceptional conditions of the world today correspondingly wider and exceptional rights to meet the popular needs, But even in such emergencies the moral law established by God demands that the lawfulness of each such measure and its real necessity be scrutinized with the greatest rigor according to the standards of the common good."
International Relations The sanctity of international relations is another aspect of the new order, On this question Pope Pius says: "It is indispensable for jthe existence of fruitful relations that the people recognize and observe these principles of international law. Such principles demand respect for corresponding rights to independence, to life and to the possibility of continued development in the paths of civiliza n; they demand fidelity to compacts agreed upon and sanctioned in conformity with the law of nations."
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