Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling of passions, not their pacification; the accumulation of hate and destruction, not the reconciliation of… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore,… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share
Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field… Access to employment [shall not be]… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share
If a worker is deprived of hope to acquire some personal property, what other natural stimulus can be offered him that will inspire him… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share
[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share
The faith of the Church is this: That one and identical is the Word of God and the Son of Mary Who suffered on… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again the fundamental… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share
How many young girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share
Henceforth it will be the task of this Sacred Congregation not only to examine carefully the books denounced to it, to prohibit them if… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share
The most insidious of sophisms are usually repeated to justify immodesty and seem to be the same everywhere. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share
These principles have been proclaimed by God, by the Church, by the Saints, by Christian reason and morals. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share
The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share
To separate tabernacle from altar is to separate two things which by their origin and nature should remain united. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share
