Years ago this February the late Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard penned a prophetic pastoral letter entitled Growth or Decline?-The Church Today. The late Archbishop of Paris wrote: "Something is dead on the earth which will not rise again. The war therefore assumes its true meaning. It is The faithful should be not an intermission but an epiprovided with the logue. It marks the end of a information they need world . . . The confusion, the to form enlightened feeling of maladjustment which results in all fields, opinions and guaranteed justifies the feeling so often freedom of expression expressed in the ambiguous in the Church. phrase: 'The world IS m revolution.' " About this same time an+ other prophetic voice was sounded from quite a different VINCENT A. area of the world. The Jesuit scholar, Teilhard de Chardin, YZERMANS an unfortunately quiet man in his lifetime, wrote in one of his many notebooks, "Today something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting." From yet another quarter the same sentiments were voiced. Speaking to a throng of people in St. Peter's Square on February 10, 1952, Pope Pius XII exclaimed: ''The whole world must be rebuilt from its foundation, transformed from savage to
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