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PAGE 2—THE BULLETIN, September 20, 1958 Text Of Encyclical "Ad Holy Fattier Urges Chinese To Resist Ai! Attempts To Set Up ‘independent Catholic Church” (Radio. N.C.W.C. News Service) VATICAN CITY. Sept. 8— Foil owing is an English transla tion, made available, at the Vati can Press Office, of the papal encyclical, “Ad Apostolorum Principis,’' repeating the Holy See's learning to Chinese Catho- RAY GOOLSBY BARBER SHOP Opposite Georgia Power Building 53-A Fairlie, N. W. JA. 3-9143 — Atlanta East Point Ford Co. 1230 N. MAIN PL. 3-2121 EAST POINT, fir A. PER VIS REALTY CO. GE 3-6296 39D8 PEACHTREE RD., N. E. ATLANTA, GA. , GORDON’S "Magic-Pak" Potato Chips Fresher! THE DINETTE GOOD FOOD Across From St. Joseph's Infirmary JA. 3-9207 246 IVY ST., N. E. ATLANTA, GA. lies against government attempts to create a schismatic church on the China mainland. To the episcopate, clergy and faithful of China: Venerable brethren and dear children, greetings and Our apostolic benediction. At the tomb of the Prince of the Apostles amid the majesty of the. Vatican basilica, Our im mediate predecessor of immor tal memory, Pius XI, as you well know duly consecrated and raised to the fullness of the priesthood “the flowers and . . . most recent saplings of the Chi nese episcopate” (1). And on laeh Account Insured U $10,000 by an Agency af tha U. t. Qovarnmant. Accounts Opened In Person or By Mail 1 STANDARD , FEDERAL Savinas and Loan Ah'*. 41 Brood St., N. W., Grant Bldg. ILL Boyd, Soc'y and Atty, ATLANTA, GA. “Sa»» With Safely” 0/ BROOKHAVEN FEDERAL 70 SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION f 401_8 Teachtree Road, Atlanta 19, Ga. CURRENT Accounts Open by Mail—CE. .7-6406 RATE . R. C. COLBERT, President CURRENT RATE FOR THAT SPECIAL OCCASION ... RENT FORMAL WEAR from O’Kelley’s, Inc. Rent your entire Forma! Wear wardrobe. O’Kelley’* features a complete line of handsome Men’* and Boy’s Formal attire. Also Bridal Gowns, Veils, Bridesmaids dresses and Hoops. 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The hope indeed of our great predecessor was not in vain nor did it prove without effect, see ing that new bands of holy pas tors and heralds of the Gospel have been joined to that first group of bishops whom Peter, living in his successor, had sent to feed those choice flocks of the Lord. New works and religious un dertakings flourished among you in spite of the many diffi cult obstacles. We too shared in and increased that hope when later we with very great joy es tablished the hierarchy in Chi na and We saw opening up yet wider paths for the extension of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. But alas after a few years the sky was overcast by storm clouds. On your Christian com munities, many of which had been flourishing from times long past, there fell sad times full of sorrows. Missionaries, among whom were many archbishops and bishops noted for their apostolic zeal, and Our own in ternuncio We saw driven from China while bishops, priests, re ligious — both men and women — together with many of the faithful were either cast into prison or incurred every kind of restraint and suffering. On that occasion We could not do other than raise Our voice in sorrow and rebuke the unjust attack in Our encyclical letter of January 18, 1952 entitled “Cupimus Imprimis” (3). In that letter for the sake of truth and conscious of Our duty We de clared that the Catholic Church should be considered a stranger to no people on earth, still less hostile to any. Rather that mov ed by a mother’s anxiety, it em braces all peoples in an equal charity and seeks no earthly advantage but employs what powers if possessess to attract the souls of all men to seek what is eternal. We added further that missionaries promote the interest of no particular nation, but since they come from every quarter of the earth and are united by a single love, God, they seek and hope for nothing else save the extension of the boundaries of God’s kingdom Consequently, it is clear that their work is neither without purpose nor is it harmful, but rather beneficient and necessary since it aids competent Chinese clergy in the field of the Chris tian apostolate. And some two years later, Oc tober 7, 1954, another encyc lical letter was addressed to you, beginning “Ad Sinarum Gentem” (4), by which We in tended to refute accusations made against Catholics in China. We openly declared that Cath olics yielded to none nor could they do so in true loyalty and love of their native country. Seeing also that there was be ing spread among you the doc trine of the so-called “three autonomies,” We warned by vir tue of that universal teaching authority which We exercise by divine command that this same doctrine as understood by its authors, whether in theory or in the consequences which follow from it, cannot receive the ap proval of a Catholic, since it turns minds away from the es sential unity of the Church. In these days, however, We have to draw attention to the fact that the Church in your lands in recent years has been brought to yet worse straints. In the daily attacks, indeed, which you have met — and in the midst of so many great sorrows this brings us great comfort — unflinching faith has not been wanting nor has the most ardent love of the Divine Redeemer and of His Church failed. Of this unflinching faith and ardent love you have borne witness in innumerable ways of which a small part only is known to men, but for all of which you will someday receive from God an eternal reward. Nevertheless We consider it to be Our duty to declare openly with a heart filled to its depths with sorrow and anxiety that matters touching you are, by de ceit and cunning endeavor, changing so much for the worse that the false doctrine already condemned by Us seems to be approaching its final'stages and to be causing its most serious damage. For by a particularly subtle method of acting an association has been created among you to which has been attached the title of patriotic and Catholics are being forced by every means to take part in it. The purpose of the association — according to innumerable proclamations — is to unite the clergy and people in a love of religion and fatherland so as to propagate patriotism, to pro mote peace among peoples and at same time to support that brand of socialism which has been introduced among you and to foster its development and extension with a view to help ing civil officials in defending what they call political and re ligious liberty by giving them active support. But it is crystal clear that once these general statements about defense of peace and the fatherland have been made and which can mislead simple peo ple, an association of this kind is striving to bring into use cer tain calculated and pernicious plans. For under the appearance of patriotism which in practice is shown to he a deceit, an associ ation of this kind aims particu larly at making Catholics grad ually embrace tenets of atheis tic materialism by which God Himself is denied and the prin ciples of religion rejected. Under the guise of defending peace the same association re ceives and spreads false sus picions and accusations by which many in the ranks of the clergy, including venerable bish ops and even the Holy See it self, are accused as if they ad mit and promote schemes for earthly domination or give rea dy and willing consent to ex ploitation of the people, as if finally they on the basis of pre conceived opinions are acting with hostile intent against the Chinese nation. While they declare that it is essential for every kind of free dom in religious matters to flou rish and that this makes easier mutual relations between the ecclesiastical and civil powers, this association is in reality aim ing at setting aside and neg lecting the rights of the Church and its complete subjection to civil authorities. Hence all its members are co erced into approving those un just prescriptions by which mis sionaries are cast into exile, by which bishops, priests, religious men, nuns and the faithful in considerable numbers are thrust into prison; to consent to those measures by which the jurisdic tion of so many legitimate pas tors is persistently obstructed; to defend also those wicked prin ciples which are totally opposed to the unity, Catholicity and hierarchical constitution of the Church; to admit those first steps by which the clergy and faithful are undermined in the obedience due to legitimate bish ops, and to separate Catholic communities from the Apostolic See. In order to spread these wick ed principles more efficiently and to fix them in everyone’s mind this association — which as We have said boasts of its title of patriotism — uses a va riety of means including vio lence and oppression, numerous publications printed at great length, and group meetings and congresses — and in these the unwilling are forced to take part by incitement, threats and de ceit. In these if any bold spirit strives to defend truth, his voice is easily smothered and over come and he is branded with a mark of infamy as an enemy of his native land and of the new society. Further there should he noted those courses of instruc tion by which pupils are forced to imbibe and embrace this false doctrine. To these.priests, relig ious — both men and women, ecclesiastical students and faith ful of all ages are forced to go. There an almost endless series of lectures and discussions last ing for weeks and months so weaken and benumb the strength of mind and will that a kind of psychical force ex tracts an assent which contains Apostolorum Principis" almost no human element, an assent which is not freely asked for as it should be. Add to these the methods by which minds are upset — by every means, in private and in public, by traps, deceits, grave fear, by so-called forced con fessions, by custody in a place where citizens are forcibly “re educated,” and those “Peoples’ Courts” to which even venera ble bishops are ignominiously dragged for trial. Against these methods of act ing which violate the chief rights of the human person and trample on the sacred liberty of the sons of God, all Christians form every part of the world, indeed all . men of good sense cannot refrain from raising their voices -with Us in real horror and from uttering a protest by deploring the damaged con science of their fellow men. And since these crimes are be ing committed in the name of patriotism We consider it Our duty again to call to the mind of all that the Church by its very teaching exhorts and warns Catholics to love their own country with sincere and strong love, to give due obedience in accordance with natural and positive divine law to those who hold public office, to give them active and ready assistance for the promotion of those under takings by which their native land can in peace and order dai ly achieve yet greater prosperi ty and set about further true de velopment. The Church has never ceased to impress on the minds of her children that declaration of the Divine Redeemer: “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s” (5). We call it a declaration because it establishes as an objective prin ciple of the Christian religion that it does not oppose true cus toms and advantages of the fa therland and can never obstruct them. It must be asserted, however, that if Christians are bound in conscience to render to Caesar, that is to human authority, what belongs to it, Caesar likewise, or those, who control the state ad ministration, cannot command obedience from citizens in those things, exact obedience when it is a question of usurping God’s rights or when they are forcing Christians to acj at variance with their religious duties and to sever themselves from the unity of the Church and its law ful hierarchy. At those times, casting aside all doubt, let each individual Christian calmly and firmly re peat those words which Peter and the other Apostles used in answer to the first persecutors of the Church: “We must obey God rather than men” (6). With emphatic insistence those who favor and promote the interest of their association which claims a monopoly on the title of patriotism, speak over and over again of peace and ad monish Catholics earnestly to exert all their efforts to estab lish it. On the surface these words are excellent and right eous for who is more to be praised than the man who pre pares the way to introduce and establish peace? Peace however — as you well know, venerable brethren and beloved sons — does not rest in words only, does not rely on changing formulas, suitable for the moment but which contra dict the real plans and practices. These plans are not in conform- Quality Recapping New Tire Sales & Service BROWN TIRE CO. If Yon Can’t Re-Tire — Retread CHAMBLEE, GA. 5039 Peachtree Rd. Glendale 7-6005 Robert Brown, Owner Roller Skating Center 4405 Buford Highway ATLANTA'S NEWESTI GLendafe 7-8811 ity with the meaning and meth od of true peace but rather with hatred, discord and mental de ceit. A peace worthy of the name must be founded on the principles of charity and justice which He taught who is the “Prince of Peace” (7), who adopted this title as a kind of royal standard for Himself. True peace is that which the Church desires to be established, namely stable, just, fair, found ed on right order and which links all together — citizens, families and peoples — by the firm ties of the rights of the Su preme Lawgiver in the first place, and then by the bonds of mutual fraternal love and co operation. Peacefully looking forward to and hoping for this harmonious dwelling together of nations, the Church demands that each na tion preserve that degree of dig nity which becomes it. For the Church, who has ever kept a friendly attitude toward the va rious events in your country, has long also spoken through Our late predecessor of happy memory and expressed the de sire that “full recognition he given to the legitimate aspira tions and rights of that nation, more populous than any other, whose civilization and culture goes back to the earliest times and which in past ages with the development of its resources has had periods of great prosperity and which it may be reasonably conjectured will become even greater in the future ages as long as it pursues justice and honor” (8). On the other hand, as has been made known both by broadcast messages and by the press, there are some — even alas among the ranks of the clergy — who do not shirk from casting suspicion on the Apos tolic See and hint that it has evil designs toward your coun try. 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