St Johns College High School - Taps Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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lIl4IllII'A'l'l0N Five years ago when His Holiness, Pope Pius XII, was called to the throne of Peter, the threat of another serious war hung over the entire world. Because war and peace are basically moral issuesg because war entails so many evils and so much suffering for the innocent people throughout the world whose common father he had become, the question of international peace was for the newly elected pontif a matter of utmost con- cern. He designated Peace the W'ork of justice as the aim of his Pontijicate. We are all fully aware of the relentless eforts of the Holy Father to avert war by moral appeals and we know too that he will not relax his eforts to get an acceptance by the nations of those principles without which there can be no hope of peace though the war may be won. Today the people of the United States are looking forward to a better world than the one which is now going through a period of almost utter destruction. Our young men are sacri- ficing their lives for the establishment of a just and lasting peace. This peace will be a lasting one if it is just and it will definitely be a just one if the great powers will but heed the dictates of the Sovereign Pontijf. And so we respectfully dedicate this annual to Our Holy Father and his crusade for a just and lasting peace.

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His Ho1,lNIcss, Pom-1 Plus XII