There is no doubt that the Catholic world is divided on a number of issues (this was first written in 1962 - it is far worse today) - including that of whether this division should be brought out into the open or, on the contrary, quietly ignored in a spirit of appeasement. Who is right and who is wrong? The answer is to be found in the Encyclicals, numerous excerpts of which have been given in this booklet. One cannot be wrong if one follows the Popes, and adheres to the pre-Enlightenment philosophy. Would it cause a rift? Indeed, it might, but "It is sometimes necessary to cut off a limb to save the rest of the body" (St. Pius X). We must never forget the Papal pronouncements. If we do not forget them, we cannot get round what they say. And if we do not evade the issues involved, we cannot fail to realise that today's political and social order is based on ideas which are basically false and dangerous. But if we do neither of these things we are either irremediably blind or lacking in intellectual integrity.
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