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There Are Those Who Ask What Authority, What Theological Qualification, The Council Intended To Give To Its Teachings, Knowing That It Avoided Issuing Solemn Dogmatic Definitions Backed By The Church's Infallible Teaching Authority. The Answer Is Known By Those Who Remember The Conciliar Declaration Of March 6, 1964, Repeated On November 16, 1964. In View Of The Pastoral Nature Of The Council, It Avoided Proclaiming In An Extraordinary Manner Any Dogmata Carrying The Mark Of Infallibility.

For You Deal Here Above All With Human Life, And Human Life Is Sacred; No One May Dare Make An Attempt Upon It. Respect For Life, Even With Regard To The Great Problem Of The Birth Rate, Must Find Here In Your Assembly Its Highest Affirmation And Its Most Rational Defense. Your Task Is To Ensure That There Is Enough Bread On The Tables Of Mankind, And Not To Encourage An Artificial Control Of Births, Which Would Be Irrational, In Order To Diminish The Number Of Guests At The Banquet Of Life.

To Wage War On Misery And To Struggle Against Injustice Is To Promote, Along With Improved Conditions, The Human And Spiritual Progress Of All Men, And Therefore The Common Good Of Humanity. Peace Cannot Be Limited To A Mere Absence Of War, The Result Of An Ever Precarious Balance Of Forces. No, Peace Is Something That Is Built Up Day After Day, In The Pursuit Of An Order Intended By God, Which Implies A More Perfect Form Of Justice Among Men.

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

This Pious Practice, By Which The Blessed Virgin Mary Is Honored And The Christian People Enriched With Spiritual Gifts, Gladdens And Consoles Us. Mary Remains Ever The Path That Leads To Christ. Every Encounter With Her Can Only Result In An Encounter With Christ Himself