Religion: Brave, Honest, Upright

Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI, spoke, last week, for the ear of Benito Mussolini while addressing a gathering of priests: "All forms of society should be founded on the divine precept. Man is not and never can be a means, he is the end—not of course the ultimate, supreme end which is God—but in the creation, man is really the end and centre about which everything is organized. Therefore neither the concepts of race nor those of the State or nation should supersede that of man as the end."

Since these remarks flatly...

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