id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195450 Catholic Church. Pope (1939-1958 : Pius XII). Sempiternus rex. (8 Sept. 1951). English. Sempiternus rex : Encyclical letter of Pope Pius XII on the fifteenth centenary of the Council of Chalcedon. Issued September 8, 1951. 1951 .txt text/plain 7549 273 64 No one seemed more capable and qualified to refute the error of Eutyches than he, who, in his addresses and letters, with pious eloquence and eloquent piety was ac- customed to praise and extol that mystery which can never be proclaimed enough, the mystery of one person and two natures in Christ: “The Catholic Church lives and grows by this faith, that we believe that in Christ Jesus the 4 humanity is not without the true divinity, and the divinity is not without the true humanity.”6 If joy and spiritual happiness reach their height when the words of the Psalmist are verified: “Behold how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity” ; 23 if the glory of God and the greatest benefit to mankind shines forth especially when the full truth and the full charity of Christ unite the sheep of Christ, let those con- sider—those whom We have mentioned in love and in sor- row—if it be right and useful for them, on account of an initial misunderstanding in terminology, to remain still separated from the one holy Church, founded on sapphires,24 namely on the Prophets and Apostles, on the chief corner- stone, Jesus Christ! cache/_005195450.txt txt/_005195450.txt