Satan's Smoke Has Made Its

Man Is Suddenly Becoming Aware That By An Ill-considered Exploitation Of Nature He Risks Destroying It And Becoming In His Turn The Victim Of This Degradation. Not Only Is The Material Environment Becoming A Permanent Menace - Pollution And Refuse, New Illness And Absolute Destructive Capacity - But The Human Framework Is No Longer Under Man's Control, Thus Creating An Environment For Tomorrow Which May Well Be Intolerable. This Is A Wide-ranging Social Problem Which Concerns The Entire Human Family.

Two Conditions Render Difficult This Historic Situation Of Mankind: It Is Full Of Tremendously Deadly Armament, And It Has Not Progressed Morally As Much As It Has Scientifically And Technically.

We See In These Swift And Skillful Travelers A Symbol Of Our Life, Which Seeks To Be A Pilgrimage And A Passage On This Earth For The Way Of Heaven.

No Member Of The Faithful Could Possibly Deny That The Church Is Competent In Her Magisterium To Interpret The Natural Moral Law.

After Long Centuries, Agrarian Civilization Is Weakening. Is Sufficient Attention Being Devoted To The Arrangement And Improvement Of The Life Of The Country People, Whose Inferior And At Times Miserable Economic Situation Provokes The Flight To The Unhappy Crowded Conditions Of The City Outskirts, Where Neither Employment Nor Housing Awaits Them?