Whoever has the care of souls and can search hearts, knows the hidden tears of mothers, the resigned sorrow of so many fathers, the countless bitterness of which no statistics tell nor can tell He sees with sad eyes the mass of sufferings ever on the increase; he knows how the powers of disorder and destruction stand on the alert ready to make use of all these things for their dark designs.
Qui, pastorali munere fungentes, intimas conscientiae latebras inspiciunt, et occultas matrum lacrimas tacitumque patrum familias moerorem atque innumeros angores cognoscere possunt — de quibus ulla publica rerum rationaria nec loquuntur, nec loqui queunt — ii procul dubio gliscentem formidolose cotidie magis hunc aegritudinum cumulum anxio sollicitoque animo vident; ac probe norunt tenebricosas improborum hominum vires, qui hoc unum annituntur, ut, iisdem rerum asperitatibus abutentes, omnia misceant atque subvertant, in insidiis esse opportunitatem aucupantes, qua impia sibi assignata proposita exsequi valeant.vatican.va vatican.va