St John XXIII: “In the daily exercise of our pastoral office, we sometimes have to listen, much to our regret, to voices of persons who, though burning with zeal, are not endowed with too much sense of discretion or measure. In these modern times they can see nothing but…
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prevarication and ruin...We feel we must disagree with those prophets of gloom, who are always forecasting disaster, as though the end of the world were at hand…The Council now beginning rises in the Church like daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light. It is now only dawn.
