The Pope Speaks: The Teachings of Pope Pius XII

Description

378 pages : 22 cm

"English translations ... [by the editor] unless otherwise mentioned."

Includes index

Man -- Love -- Conjugal love, its meaning and goal -- On marriage -- The family -- To the fathers -- The duties of husband and wife -- The modern woman -- Fashion and virtue -- Matrimonial trials in ecclesiastical courts -- Strength and weakness, children and the aged -- Faith, hope, and charity -- Poverty and charity -- Man the machine -- The education of the child -- The boarding school : its effects and purposes -- Conscience and education -- Fundamental rights of the Christian family -- Immorality -- The essence and mission of art -- The duty of physicians -- Birth control -- Heredity, eugenics, and painless birth -- Artificial insemination -- Moral obligations of Catholic jurists -- Science and religion -- The world of today -- The atomic age -- On the "new" world order -- The limits of science -- Radio and television -- The theater -- The mission of publishers -- The duty and responsibility of the literary critic -- On movies -- Sports -- The church -- The papacy -- On prayer -- The Ten Commandments -- Erroneous trends in modern theology -- Atheism -- The Holy Scriptures -- To priests -- The lay apostolate -- Catholic action -- Individual and state -- Church and state -- The social order -- Dictatorship and democracy -- Atheistic dictatorships -- Elections and voting -- The class struggle -- Capital and labor -- The dignity of labor -- To the labor unions -- On the internationalization of private law -- War and peace -- Peace letter to President Truman -- Atomic weapons -- Technology and materialism -- On the establishment of the hierarchy in the United States -- To the Christians in Russia -- The church suffering persecution in Central and Eastern Europe -- The Eastern churches -- The task of the Christian press -- The European Union -- Church and history