id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195252 Paul VI, Pope, 1897-1978. Address to priests : July 3, 1966 1966 .txt text/plain 1904 75 63 Latin America — faithful heir of the heritage of faith and of civilization which the ancient but not old Europe committed to you on the day of your independence, and which the Church, mother and teacher, has guarded with unusual love, at times superior to her powers of realization — now a new day enlight- ens your history: that of modern life, with all its vehement and astonishing problems; a fife not paganly profane, not ignorant of the spiritual and transcendent destinies of man, but a life aware of your original vocation to form in a new and genial synthesis the ancient and the modern, the spiritual and the temporal, the gift of others and your own originality; a life, not uncertain, not weak, not slow, but a just, strong, free, Catholic life; an immense continent is yours. And we are here, like travelers at the crossroads, there where every path of God’s kingdom reaches and departs from, like scattered pilgrims who, on first arriving, discover themselves to be like brothers and like sons in this house; like anxious students wishing to seize at least a word from this chair, so as to make of it a seed of meditation throughout life. cache/_005195252.txt txt/_005195252.txt