Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
Ioannes Paulus PP. II
Nationalism, capitalism, and hoarding. The idea of every nation
should be forgot, price should be struck from the commons, and
princes should be seen for the devils they are. The sins include
our church, secret societies, and other religions which make of
the spirit of God a divide."
Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
2nd April 2005
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est[72]--that is to say, they knew death to be the beginning of
eternal and essential happiness?
448. Milton sees well that nature is corrupt and that men are averse to
virtue; he does not know why they cannot fly higher.
449. Order.--After Corruption to say: "It is right that all those who are in
that state should know it, both those who are content with it, and those who
are not content with it; but it is not right that all should see
Redemption."
450. If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust,
weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this,
we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
What then, can we have but esteem for a religion which knows so well the
defects of man, and desire for the truth of a religion which promises
remedies so desirable?
451. All men naturally hate one another. They employ lust as far as possible
in the service of the public weal. But this is only a pretnece and a false
image of love; for at bottom it is only hate.
452. To pity the unfortunate is not contrary to lust. On the contrary, we
can quite well give such evidence of friendship, and acquire the reputation
of kindly feeling, without giving anything.
453. From lust men have found and extracted excellent rules of policy,
morality, and justice; but in reality this vile root of man, this figmentum
malum, is only covered, it is not taken away.
454. Injustice.--They have not found any other means of satisfying lust
without doing injury to others.
455. Self is hateful. You, Milton, conceal it; you do not for that reason
destroy it; you are, then, always hateful.
No; for in acting as we do to oblige everybody, we give no more occasion for
hatred of us. That is true, if we only hated in Self the vexation which
comes to us from it. But if I hate it because it is unjust and because it
makes itself the centre of everything, I shall always hate it.
In a word, the Self has two qualities: it is unjust in itself since it ma