Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1920 — EVIL CONDITIONS FACING WORLD [ARTICLE]

EVIL CONDITIONS FACING WORLD

; Rome, Aug. I.—Evil conditions confronting the world today are out* lined in a circular letter issued to the church by Pope Benedict today. The purpose of this letter is to proclaim throughout the world the fiftieth anniversary of the decree by which St. Joseph was named patron of the universal church, ana in it the pontiff urges the Catholic world to celebrate for a whole year from December next with solemn function in honor of the saint. “When the end of the war came,’ says the letter, “the minds of men led astray by militarist passion, were exasperated by the length and bitterness of the conflict, and aggravated by famine on one side and accumulated riches in the hands Of a few on the other. The war brought about two other evils —the diminution of conjugial fidelity and the diminution of respect, for constituted authority. Licentious habits followed even among young women and there arose the fatal doctrine of communism, with the ablations between nations and between father and children. Terrible consolute destruction of dutiful resequences ensuing have already been continues by illustrating the efficacy of the patronage of St. Joseph, “since the society of mankind is founded on the family, and anything strengthening Christian domestic organization also strengthens human society.