id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195231 Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958. 1944 Christmas message of Pope Pius XII. Addressed to the people of the entire world on the subject of democracy and a lasting peace. 1945 .txt text/plain 5646 189 56 And in this hope we are strengthened by the words of men who have had a greater share in the sufferings of the war and who have found generous words to express, together with the insistence on their own need of security against any future aggression, their respect for the vital rights of other peoples and their aversion to any usurping of those rights. When, however, people call for “democracy and better democracy,” such a demand cannot have any other meaning than to place the citizen ever more in the position to hold his own personal opinion, to express it and to make it prevail in a fashion conducive to common good. cache/_005195231.txt txt/_005195231.txt