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_005195232	Pius XII, Pope, 1876-1958.	1946 Christmas message of Pope Pius XII : a plea for a prompt, just and flexible peace.	1946		.txt	text/plain	4148	122	58	In this way you, at one and the same time, give and receive the ineffable Christmas Gift: Peace on earth to men of good will!” Nothing is so well suited to create the indispensable spiritual require- ments of peace as help liberally given by state to state, by a people to a people, without regard to national boundaries, so that nations, laying aside feelings of rivalry and of ven- geance, restraining their craving for power and banishing the thought of privileged isolation, may learn from their own fortunes to understand, to tolerate, and to help one another, and thus—upon the ruins of a civi- lization forgetful of the teachings of the Gospel—the Christian Common- wealth may rise again, in which the law of love is supreme. If in the arduous but resolute per- formance of Our office anything gives Us peace and encouragement, it is, after Our confidence in Him Who chooses the weak things to confound the arrogance of the strong, the solid conviction of being able to count on the prayer, fidelity and watchfulness of an acies ordinata” (Can. 6, 3) (an army set in array) whose fitness and experience have overcome the great- est trials.	cache/_005195232.txt	txt/_005195232.txt