If You Want Peace, Work For Justice.

If You Believe In Peace It Is Possible. If It Is Possible It Is A Duty.

Perhaps The Lord Has Called Me And Preserved Me For This Service Not Because I Am Particularly Fit For It, Or So That I Can Govern And Rescue The Church From Her Present Difficulties, But So That I Can Suffer Something For The Church, And In That Way It Will Be Clear That He, And No Other, Is Her Guide And Saviour

Is He Prepared To Support, At His Own Expense, Projects And Undertakings Designed To Help The Needy? Is He Prepared To Pay Higher Taxes So That Public Authorities May Expand Their Efforts In The Work Of Development? Is He Prepared To Pay More For Imported Goods, So That The Foreign Producer May Make A Fairer Profit? Is He Prepared To Emigrate From His Homeland If Necessary And If He Is Young, In Order To Help The Emerging Nations?

Priestly Celibacy Has Been Guarded By The Church For Centuries As A Brilliant Jewel, And Retains Its Value Undiminished Even In Our Time When The Outlook Of Men And The State Of The World Have Undergone Such Profound Changes.

If Evils Increase, The Devotion Of The People Of God Should Also Increase.