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The message urges immediate action, with clear definition of religious and moral fronts and emphasis on the “time of the test.” It outlines five chief points for Catholic men: religious culture, sanctifying Sunday, saving the Christian family, social justice through a more just distribution of wealth, and loyalty and truthfulness in dealings, summarized by the motto Church, Family, Work.",{"@graph":14,"@context":73},[15,34,56],{"@type":16,"itemListElement":17},"BreadcrumbList",[18,23,27,31],{"item":19,"name":20,"@type":21,"position":22},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",1,{"item":24,"name":25,"@type":21,"position":26},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":28,"name":29,"@type":21,"position":30},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/religion-spirituality/","Religion & 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influence on thefamily,on professional life and on theoutside world.The duties we treatedof then,are for you today of such greaturgency that it would be difficult toimagine greater...·  \nThe time for retlection and planningis past:now is the time for action.Are you ready?  \nThe opposing fronts in the religiousand moral fields are becoming ever moreclearly defined:the time of the test ishere.·.·  \nMen of Catholic Action.what are foryou today the most important aspectsof this encounter:what are the mainfields of your activity?We deem itour duty to indicate briefly fve chiefpoints:  \n1.Religzous culture.Deep and solidknowledge of the Catholic faith,of itstruths,mysteries and divine force...·ignorance must be grappled with,ex-tirpated and conquered...:  \nBeloved sons,it rests with you tohelp the Church in this work.Nourishyourselves,above all,in mind and inheart with the substantial bread of theCatholic faith which is offered to youin the complete living teaching of theChurch..··  \n2.The.sanctifying of Sunday.Sun-day must become again the day of theLord,the day of adoration,of glorifica-tion of God,of the Holy Sacrifice,ofprayer,of rest,of recollection and re-flection;the day of happy reunion inthe intimate circle of the family.Sadexperience has taught that,for not afew even of those who devote them-selves to honest work during the week,  \n## Pius XIl to Men of Catholic Action\n\nCalls for Action Now;Better Distribution of Wealth;Cooperation of Non-Catholics  \nOn September 8,in St.Peter's Square,tbe Holy Fatber addressed the men's unit of Italian Catbolic Action,markingthe 25th anniversarey of their organization.Two bundred thousand persons were present.Some excerpts are given below.  \nSunday has become the day of sin andprofane pleasure....  \nHere a vast field of activity awaitsyou.Go forth courageously to thework and help to give Sunday backto God.  \n3.The saving of the Christian fam-ily....Preserve what has always beenour proud boast and strength—theChristian mother and the Christianhearth...  \nTo save the Christian family is pre-cisely the chief task of the Catholicman.Do not forget:it depends on him,on what he is and what he wills,notless than on the mother herself..·.  \n4.Social Justice....For Catholicsthe path to be followed in social ques-tions is clearly outlined in the doctrineof the Church....What you canand ought to strive for,is a more justdistribution of wealth.This is andthis remains a central point in Catholicsocial doctrine.  \nThe natural course of affairs,nodoubt,brings with it,within certainlimits,an unequal distribution of thegoods of the world.But the Churchis opposed to the accumulation of thesegoods in the hands of a relatively smalland exceedingly rich group,while vastmasses of people are condemned topauperism and to an economic condi-tion unworthy of human beings.  \nA more just distribution of wealth is,then,a high social aim worthy of yourefforts.Its successful realization pre-supposes that individuals as well asgroups show the same understanding forthe rights and needs of others as theyhave for their own rights and their ownneeds.To be conscious of this in yourown lives and to make others realizeit,is one of the noblest tasks of themen of Catholic Action.  \nNO.5  \n5.Loyalty and trutbfulness in deal-ings with one another....As a resultof the incredible disturbances of thewar and post-war period,it is dis-turbing to see to what extent fidelityand honesty have vanished in economicand social life.Such a symptom in thisfield is not merely an external fault ofcharacter,but reveals a serious internaldisease,a spiritual poisoning which isalso,to a large extent,the cause ofreligious anemia...·  \nWe believe that we cannot summarizebetter these your plans,for the suc-cess of which you are already workingenergetically,than with the motto ","cbCaidZo9JSOVvYm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidZo9JSOVvYm","pdf",706114,"English","# Calls for Action Now\n## Better Distribution of Wealth; 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