London. June 2.
The use of material goods, labour, and the family were enumerated as the three fundamental values of social and economic life by the Pope in broadcasting an allocution yesterday via the Vatican Radio on the 50th anniversary of the' publication of Pope Leo XilI's Return Novarum Encyclical (workers charter).
National economy, he said. had no other end than to secure without interruption the material condition in which the life of a citizen might fully develop.
Arguing that economic riches of a people did not properly consist in abundance of goods but in the fact that such abundance represented and offered a material basis sufficient for the personal development of its members. the Pontiff asserted that national economy should become the guide for the efforts of statesmen and people to enlighten them to walk spontaneously along the way which does not call for continual exaction in goods and blood but would give fruits of peace and general welfare,
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