PIUS X, POPE, MOTU PROPRIO
In Our first encyclical to the Bishops of the World, in which We echoed all that Our glorious Predecessors had laid down concerning the Catholic action of the Laity, We declared that this action was deserving of the highest praise, and was indeed necessary in the present condition of the Church and of society. And We caanot but warmly praise the zeal shown by so many illustrious personages who have for a long time dedicated theinselves to this glorious task snd the ardor of so many brilliant young people who have eagerly hastened to lend their aid in the same. The ninetenth Catholic Congress, lately held at Bologna, and by Us promoted and encouraged, has suffieiently proved to all the vigor of the Catholie forces and what useful and salutary results may be obtained among a population of believers, when this action is well governed and disciplined, and where unity of thought, sentiment and action prevail among those who take part in it.
But We are very sorry to find that certain differen. ces whieh arose in the midst of them have produced discussions, unfortunately too vivacious, which, if not dispelled in time, might serve to divide those forces of which We have spoken and render them ‘ess effieaciou. Before the Congress We recommended above all things unity and harmony in order that it might be possible to lay down by common accord the general lines for the practical working of the Catholic movement, and We cannot therefore be silent now. And since divergence of views in matters of practice have commonly their origin in the domain of theory, and, indeed, necessarily find their fulerum in the latter, it is necessary to define
clearly the principles on which the entire Catholic mo-
vement must be based.
Our
mory, traced out luminiously tl followed in the Christian movement among the people in the great ency elieals, “Quod Dec. 28. 18 "Graves de Dv ntagar" of Jan. 1 partieular instruetion DUE from the Saered Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs of Jan. 27, 19 12.
“Rerum Do ru Ham,
And We, realizing like Our the vreat head that the Christian movement amony the pe ople be rightly governed and conducted, desire to have those most prude nt rules ex: ietly and completely fulfilled, and to provide that nobody may dare to depart
from them in the smallest particulars.
illustrious Predecessor, Leo XIIL, of holy must be
re rules Ts
A postoliei Muneria,” 1891, and 1901, and further
“of May 15,
me-
of
in à
Predecessor before Us,
them more vividly present before people's mind have deemed it well to summarize them in ths following articles, which will constitute the fundamental plan of the Catholie popular movement :
Henee to keep
We
Fundamental Regulations for Catholic Popular. Action. jJ 1
society.
origi
Chri
Human society, as established by God, sed of unequal elements, the human body are unequal ; impossible, and would mean the destruction of
-( Ene y. ( Quod A postoliei 1
The equi ality existing among the Rem de. consists on!y in this :
that all
Muneris. )
is compojust as the different parts of to make them all equal is human
various social men have their
God the Creator, have been redeemed by Jesus
nd are
to be judged, and rewarded or punished
by God exaetly according to their merits or demerits.
(Eney.
Quod
A postoliei Muneris.) H à 543 IBECHIIM
it follows that thei
ordinance of God, in human society princes and
‘e are, according to the
sub-
jects, masters and proletariat, rich and poor, learned and
itholie mo-
f holy met must be the people uneris," of
1891, and urther in a aered Coniirs of Jan.
before Us, among the ive to have tely fulfilto depart e to kee
mind We s following tal plan of
r Action,
, 18 compoat parts of all equal is of human
ious social have their d by Jesus ir punished + demerits.
ding to the and subearned and
ignorant, nobles and plebeians, all of whom, united in the bonds of love, are to help one another to attain their last end in Heaven, and their material and moral welfare here on earth.—( Ency. Quod Apostolici Muneris.)
