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The Light of the East May 1937

1937

The Ascension confirms and completes the teaching of the Resurrection on the reality and transforming power of the Eternal Life. [...] For the Romans had a very effective power to back up their syncrtism ; apart from the obvious bankruptcy of every particular religion there was the political THE LIGHT OF THE EAST 84"unity of Europe ( together with large slices of the East ) the sufficiently universal use of the Greek language and above all the Roman cohorts--elements all of them conspicuously absent from our modern world. [...] Why do we go to the trouble of possessing the best of clothes buy the best of fruits send our children to the best of schools and so on ? Would we not have gone to the extent of selecting the best of parents even had such a choice been possible ? Can anything be more clear than that ordinary common sense is the one and only cause for all this predilection of ours for the best ? Thus given sui [...] a. The absence of religion in the life of people leads to disorder: The fundamental cause of this defection from the Christian law in social and economic matters and of the apostasy of many workmen from the Catholic faith which has resulted from it is the disorderly affection of the soul a sad consequence of original sin the source of these and all evils... [...] And to this must be added the custom of working by cotract and the concentration of so many branches of trade in the hands of a few individuals so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the masses of the poor a yoke little better than slavery itself." (Rerum Nvarum 2) "Towards the close of the XIXth century the new economic methods and the new devlopment of ind
philosophy religion
Pages
22
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120063
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i D. Dandoy view
“Ascension”
82-83 unknown view
Backward Progress
83-88 unknown view
Min Rasul’Allah Ila Ruh’Allah or from Prophet of God to Son of God
89-93 F.X.J. Khan view
Birth-Control
93-95 unknown view
The Popes on the Social Question
96-98 unknown view
Among the Books
99-100 unknown view

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