The Intercourse Between The Mediterranean And The

We Have Entered A New Phase Of Culture - We May Call It The Age Of The Cinema - In Which The Most Amazing Perfection Of Scientific Technique Is Being Devoted To Purely Ephemeral Objects, Without Any Consideration Of Their Ultimate Justification. It Seems As Though A New Society Was Arising Which Will Acknowledge No Hierarchy Of Values, No Intellectual Authority, And No Social Or Religious Tradition, But Which Will Live For The Moment In A Chaos Of Pure Sensation.

We Must Recognize That We Are Living In An Imperfect World In Which Human And Superhuman Forces Of Evil Are At Work And So Long As Those Forces Affect The Political Behaviour Of Mankind There Can Be No Hope Of Abiding Peace.

Humanism And Divinity Are As Complementary To One Another In Theorder Of Culture, As Are Nature And Grace In The Order Of Being.

It Is Clear That This Essential Christian Doctrine Gives A New Value To Human Nature, To Human History And To Human Life Which Is Not To Be Found In The Other Great Oriental Religions.

The Church As A Divine Society Possess An Internal Principle Of Life Which Is Capable Of Assimilating The Most Diverse Materials And Imprinting Her Own Image Upon Them.