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Author: vatican.va
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English[en]
In no age has the spirit of contumacy and an attitude of defiance towards God been more prevalent than in our own; an age in which that unholy cry of the enemies of Christ: "We will not have this man to rule over us" (Luke xix., 14), makes itself more and more loudly heard, together with the utterance of that wicked purpose: "let us make away with Him" (Jer. xi., II); nor is there any motive by which many are hurried on with more passionate fury, than the desire utterly to banish God not only from the civil government, but from every form of human society.
Italian[it]
Più di ogni altra, l’età nostra riottosa s’inalbera contro Dio, e fa risuonare di nuovo contro Cristo quella nefanda parola: "Non vogliamo che costui regni su di noi" (Lc 19,14), e quel nefando proposito: "Facciamolo sparire!"
Latin[la]
Contumaces in Deum spiritus haec, si unquam alia, prae se fert aetas: in qua rursus invalescit adversus Christum ea vox nefaria: Nolumus hunc regnare super nos (Luc. XIX, 14), nefariumque propositum, Eradamus eum (Ier.